DJ Vlad went live on VladTV this week with a 42 minute solo video aimed directly at Boosie Badazz, and he did not come empty handed. He came with court paperwork.
The video, titled “Vlad Responds to Boosie’s Threat & Shows Boosie’s Snitch Paperwork,” posted September 24 and has already cleared 600,000 views. It is the loudest chapter yet in a falling out that started over an interview fee and has now rolled into a federal pardon scandal, a $600,000 payment, an aggravated assault indictment and a San Diego gun case.
Start at the 35:17 mark. That is where Vlad stops arguing about contracts and starts reading the San Diego police report out loud. The body bag line lands about twenty seconds in.
Everything below is Vlad’s account and his reading of documents he presented on camera. Boosie has not responded to the specific claims in the video as of publishing.
How We Got Here
Boosie has spent months accusing two DC lobbyists, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, of taking $600,000 from him to chase a pardon from Donald Trump that never arrived. That accusation ended up on 60 Minutes in a segment about people trying to buy pardons, with Boosie and both lobbyists interviewed.
After that aired, the lobbyists reached out to VladTV and sat down for free. Vlad says he texted and called Boosie before the cameras rolled, offering to ask any questions Boosie wanted asked. He says Boosie ignored him.
The Contract That Vlad Says Never Existed
The centerpiece of the lobbyists’ defense is that Boosie never had a binding contract. Their position, as Vlad relayed it, is that Boosie’s own lawyer sent the paperwork over and they never countersigned it. The DocuSign, in their words, died on the vine.
Vlad’s take was blunt. One signature is not a contract. It is, as he put it, a “wish list.”
He then pointed at Boosie’s own tweet, where Boosie wrote that the lobbyists went on Vlad and lied about who did not sign it. Vlad’s read is that Boosie is arguing the other side never signed, which would sink his own lawsuit.
Then he put money on it. Vlad offered $35,000 for a sit down if Boosie can produce a contract signed by both parties. That number is not random. The whole VladTV split came from Boosie asking for $35,000 after years of getting $25,000 a visit.
Vlad’s theory on why there was no contract at all: he believes Boosie thought the whole arrangement was illegal and wanted no paper trail. Vlad notes that going to a lobby group for a pardon is completely legal, and that trying to stay below the radar is what left Boosie without protection.
He also laid out a timeline. Boosie hired the lobbyists before sentencing, when real prison time was on the table. Once he got time served, probation and a fine, Vlad says the safety net was no longer needed, and that is when the demand for the money back started.
The Threat
Vlad said he was going to let the whole thing go until Boosie tweeted that his fans were going to beat up VladTV and that he would be laughing about it.
Vlad said he does not take it as a credible threat, but he did not laugh it off either. He pointed out that both of them have real scars from this business. Vlad brought up getting jumped by Rick Ross’s crew in Houston. He brought up Boosie getting shot in Dallas. His warning was that if anything actually happens, that tweet resurfaces in a criminal or civil case.
He also noted that Boosie was recently charged with felony aggravated assault while on probation, over an alleged bar altercation involving a security guard and a hookah. That charge is an allegation and has not been proven.
The Paperwork
The back half of the video is where Vlad turned the snitch label around.
Reading from what he presented as the police report from Boosie’s San Diego arrest, filed under Boosie’s legal name Torrence Hatch, Vlad walked through the following claims.
Officers pulled over the vehicle and found one firearm in the security guard’s bag and a second loaded firearm on the rear seat between Boosie and the guard, matching a gun seen in an Instagram Live video. The report says Boosie claimed both firearms belonged to his security guard, while also admitting he had put a firearm there for the video shoot.
It goes further. According to the report Vlad read, after interviews, officers overheard Boosie yelling at his security guard for telling police the gun was on the seat. Multiple officers reported hearing him threaten the guard. One line Vlad read aloud: “You’re going to be in a body bag.” Another officer reportedly heard something to the effect of ten thousand on his head.
Vlad’s argument is that this is the exact behavior Boosie has spent years condemning in other people. Boosie went at Gucci Mane over cooperating. He went at Gunna over the YSL gun in the car. He shelved a whole project with T.I. over a lyric. He has gone at Terrance “Gangsta” Williams repeatedly. Vlad played a Boosie clip about dying known as a rat and then asked how pointing at your own security guard is any different.
Again, this is Vlad’s characterization of a document he showed on screen. Boosie has not publicly answered it.
The Math
Vlad closed with a number. He estimates Boosie took roughly $16,000 for that video shoot, then spent $600,000 on the pardon attempt, two to three hundred thousand on legal fees, a $50,000 fine, plus lost income and community service.
His summary: about a $984,000 loss on a $16,000 payday. He called it “hustling backwards.”
And he said he is out of the Boosie business entirely, noting he now does bigger numbers talking about Boosie than he ever did interviewing him.
The Breakdown
Vlad is playing two games here at once. One is a business argument about an unsigned contract that may actually hold up in court. The other is a culture argument, and that one is the knife. For twenty years Boosie has been the loudest voice in rap on what counts as telling. Vlad is betting that a police report with Boosie’s own statements in it does more damage than any opinion ever could.
Boosie’s move now is either the receipt or the silence. Both say something.