The “wickedest wordsmith”, “that’s believed to be conceived from rap”, “who makes dead poets breathe envy”, and is “the epitome of emcee”. The greatest lyricist I have ever witnessed. Boo-da was one of those emcees, that you have to listen to over and over, and each time you did, you picked up something new that he was saying. When Boo-da first came to CNI, we did not know how to market him. He was so out there, that we feared that he would only be appreciated by fellow emcees, those who know what it takes to make a record and those that could pick up on metaphors. Lyrically, a genius at it. Not Jay-Z, not Nas, not Kool G Rap, not Canibus, no emcee I have heard of can compare..Boo-da seamlessly intertwined the metaphors from verse to verse , from song to song, mixtape to mixtape, he made you a fan, and helped the label to appreciate what a true emcee is.
And even more than that, he was a great person. Who led by example, and not by words, for so long he kept the group together, he was that link between FRONTLINE’s street persona and the artistic side, he was the voice of reasoning that kept FRONTLINE from falling victim to that thing that broke most groups up.
We miss our friend. He will always be a part of us, but even he said “I’ll cause lightning when im writing” and “when my life freezes , you’ll feel my rhymes whenever the winds blow."
