Juicy J Shares Gangsta Boo Tribute on New Jazz Album ‘Ravenite Social Club’
After alleging that hip-hop sales were down by 40 percent in 2023, rapper Juicy J has ventured into jazz.
On Tuesday (Aug. 27), the 49-year-old Three 6 Mafia founding member released his new album Ravenite Social Club, which features him performing spoken word-styled verses over compositions from JR Swift and Robert Glasper.
To accompany his surprise album, Juicy J dropped a music video for single “To You,” featuring Glasper and vocalist Emi Seacrest, which sees the Memphis native performing in a jazz club before hitting a street corner with a backing band. The song also serves as a tribute to the late Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo, who died from an accidental overdose last January.
“To You” also recounts Juicy J’s last conversation with Gangsta Boo, where he raps, “Last time I seen you, you was high, it was getting bad/You might’ve even cracked a joke, but I couldn’t laugh/Didn’t wanna speak on it, ’cause we all grown/Had a feeling you finna get called home.”
Juicy J spoke on his former groupmate’s passing on SiriusXM radio program Sway’s Universe last year, where he predicted that during their last meeting that Gangsta Boo would soon die.
“I don’t know where that came from, but I was just looking at her like…’cause I knew she’d been doing it for a long time, so I was like, ‘Damn, man. You still doing cocaine?'” he said around the 13:30-minute mark of the video below.
He continued, “But I hadn’t seen Boo in a long time and so, you know, she a grown woman so I wasn’t trying to be all up in her business…I wish I could’ve said something. I’m like, ‘Fuck.'”
Also featured on Ravenite Social Club is Cordae on the track “Suicide Doors.”
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