Formerly incarcerated rapper Lil Boosie made national headlines when he was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary last week after serving nearly five years in prison. Shortly after Boosie was released, a video clip of his young daughter, Tarlaysia sharing her excitement at his release, was uploaded to the rapper’s Instagram account. In the clip, Tarlaysia drops the N-word as she applauds her father’s return.
“I told y’all n—as … I told y’all n—as. Y’all thought I was playing. He comin’ home today,” she says. “Told y’all. Y’all better believe it. The streets is his.”
In a recent interview with AllHipHop, Boosie was asked about his daughter’s language in the video.
“I was too happy to fuss,” he said. “After that, I told her I didn’t want her saying the word.”
Boosie added that his daughter had been taunted due to his prison stint, so she was acting out of frustration with the comments she’d heard.
“She was one of those that went through ‘Your daddy ain’t coming home’, ‘Yo daddy this’ in schools and such. So, I think it was just … when I called her and told her I was coming home, I think it was all the stuff she went through coming out,” Boosie said. “I didn’t know she had it in her like that … She went off or whatever. I just told her don’t use the word no more like that. But I ain’t whoop her or nothing. She a straight-A student.”
