вЂњMurder Was The Case (Intro),вЂќ the first song on BoosieвЂ™s excellent new Life After Deathrow tape, repurposes Snoop DoggвЂ™s вЂњMurder Was The CaseвЂќ and just lets Boosie vent about the idea that he was facing death. But heвЂ™s not in a partying mood, and you cannot blame him. HeвЂ™s home now, finally, as of this past March. He also went up against a murder charge in one of those befuddling cases where the prosecution attempted to use his rap lyrics as evidence against him. But then, in 2008, Boosie was arrested on a marijuana charge and somehow ended up spending the next six years in prison on various drug charges. So Boosie had that whole party-rap thing down cold, whether that was what he wanted to do or not. The way he howled вЂњ yeeeaaauuuhh!вЂќ halfway through his verse on WebbieвЂ™s вЂњIndependentвЂќ is an all-time party gauge: If youвЂ™re at the club and everyone yells that word along with Boosie, youвЂ™re among the right people. Once, on assignment for King magazine, I stood behind Boosie on an Orlando parking-lot stage and watched a euphoric crowd shout BoosieвЂ™s verse from the вЂњWipe Me DownвЂќ remix - вЂњB-O-O-S-I-E B-A-D-A-Z-Z THATвЂ™S ME!вЂќ - back at him, and it ranks as one of my favorite live-music memories ever.

Ratchet music, the prim and minimal strain of party-rap thatвЂ™s currently dominating West Coast rap, got its name from a 2005 Boosie single. But BoosieвЂ™s biggest hits were his party songs. Boosie started off as a gangsta rap child star, and by the time he got around to making Ghetto Stories, his great 2003 collaborative album with Webbie, heвЂ™s matured into a wizened seen-it-all street rapper, squawking about impossible hardships in a voice that sounded like a feral cat on helium. The party songs never dominated the Baton Rouge rapperвЂ™s catalog, and you sometimes got the impression that he didnвЂ™t like doing them. Once upon a time, Lil Boosie made party songs.

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