The most gangsta thing Gangsta Boo could do was ask for help. Lola Mitchell, who died on Jan. 1 at age 43, was my friend. We met in 2012 at a show when she approached me and said, “Who you?” That i…
where she got extremely deep. When we shot the video, she said, “Cool, but if you are gonna put me in an astronaut suit to Mars, you are gonna have to pay me more.” I happily obliged.
As Gangsta Boo, she was socially conscious. We attended a Black Lives Matter rally in Los Angeles and recorded for a collaborative program on Black-Jewish relations called “Soulvey” on a makeshift green screen Zoom in her hotel room with nonprofit and Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann. We played showcases together at South By Southwest and last year, I tried to get her on a TV show to perform. Unfortunately, Boo preferred to wait until COVID restrictions would change.
I introduced myself to Boo as a sober person, which was always intriguing to her. She would say how “proud” she was of me, but I knew Boo had her own issues. Now that the music community is reflecting on their own experiences with Lola, many are afraid to taint someone’s legacy with the truth, so here is mine.In recovery, the least enjoyable thing is to push “recovery” onto someone else.
For most of her career, Boo wasn’t properly compensated for her worth. This was going to be her year. She was right there with a Glorilla and Latto record. Her monthly streams went from 40,000 a month to well over 1.7 million. And yet the sad ending of her story isn’t unique. Boo was caught in a vicious cycle many hip-hop artists face: the curse of success at a young age and the fear of asking for help.
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