Touch Down 2 Cause Hell marks Boosie Badazz’s first album since his release from prison in the march of 2014. This is the first album from Boosie Badazz I have listened to and I can tell you that I am very pleased.

The album surpassed my expectations by far, granted my expectations for the album weren’t all that high. I thought this album was going to be a typical new era trap cut with no depth to it all. I found myself wrong. This album is riddled with true stories of Boosie’s trials and tribulations. Including growing up poor, struggles with gang life, and his infamous five-year stint in the penitentiary for miscellaneous drug charges.

Boosie also touches on the racial tensions that are near an all time high right now on the tracks “Black Heaven” and “Hands Up”. “Black Heaven” transcends black culture by creating a black heaven, in which Boosie comments what major black figure heads from the past are doing in heaven right now. “Hands Up” addresses police brutality against unarmed civilians and the bias of the judicial system when it comes to cases like that, more specifically the Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin cases.

The album features Rick Ross, J. Cole, Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug, and more. Boosie found just the right mix of underground and mainstream sound for this album. He delivers witty lyrics that have meaning behind them while recruiting some of his features to bring the mainstream sound to his album. It’s a good formula for commercial success in my opinion, spit some real bars over a great beat then have a Rick Ross type rapper come on the track and spit a good verse with no substance to it.

This album does have its downfalls though. Some of the features I think Boosie is just to good for. Such as Young Thug on the track “On Deck”, I feel like Young Thug brings the song down. He doesn’t bring anything to the table, just his shrieking voice over the hook that Booise would’ve done better himself. On a couple of tracks Boosie finds himself falling into the dreaded clichéd mainstream sound, only rapping about molly, women, and money. You can hear this sound the most on the track “On That Level”.

For having nineteen songs this album manages to minimize filler songs, the only two in my opinion being “On That Level” and “How She Got Her Name”. If this album was a couple of songs shorter I would rank it a tad higher, but I am giving this album a 7 out of 10. The harsh realness of this album really propels it. Boosie has turned me into a fan. I look forward to what he has next