Boosie Called His $125K-a-Year VladTV Deal ‘Crumbs’ — Out of Touch, or Just Honest About His Bills?
The video everybody’s arguing about isn’t where this started. Before the car clip, before The Shade Room, Boosie Badazz was on his own Instagram Live — and the money he called “crumbs” wasn’t anybody’s salary. It was his VladTV checks. Boosie says Vlad was paying him $125,000 a year for interviews, and he waved it off — because, he says, he just locked in $130,000 for one 40-minute show in February. One night versus a whole year of interviews. He even threw in that he runs $20,000 dice games at the house, multiple times a month. And this is the same VladTV he split from earlier this year in a pay dispute — so the “crumbs” line landed like a man talking down on money he used to take.
The Live itself isn’t archived anywhere — Instagram Lives disappear — so the original rant only survives in screen-recorded clips. The closest thing to a full surviving clip of it is on YouTube, via Urban Politicians TV.
The backlash came fast, and Boosie answered it the same day from the driver’s seat — yellow hoodie, shades on, diamonds out. Clips of that car video were moving by Nov. 1, and The Shade Room pushed it out on Nov. 2. That’s the video most people have seen, and it’s where “$150K a year” entered the chat. His defense was simple: run his bills, not yours. He says his expenses don’t look anything like a regular household’s — he counts eight or nine pieces of land, property taxes on six or seven homes, and a lot of children he supports. Break $150,000 down and you’re looking at about $12,500 a month before taxes, and Boosie says that number wouldn’t cover what goes out his door. In his world, he argues, that salary isn’t a flex — it’s a shortfall.
Boosie Badazz explains why he called $150K a year “crumbs” — via The Shade Room
He also made the point that “crumbs” depends on where you’re standing. Boosie says when he was 16 or 17 years old, he was already making around $12,000 a month — and back then, that was big money to him. Same number, different life. His argument is that money is only “a lot” compared to what it has to cover, and what it has to cover for him in 2026 is a small town’s worth of property, taxes, and family.
Half the comments are riding with him. Their take: his bills are not our bills. A man maintaining multiple properties and a big family isn’t talking about what $150,000 means to a single person in an apartment — he’s talking about his own overhead, and overhead eats different at that level. Money is relative, and so is “broke.”
The other half isn’t trying to hear it. Their take: the fans who buy the tickets, stream the music, and fill those arena seats would change their whole lives on $150,000 a year — and a lot of them are raising families on far less. To them, calling that money crumbs doesn’t sound like honesty. It sounds like a man who’s been rich so long he forgot what the number means to the people who made him rich.
Both sides have a point, which is why this won’t die. So let’s settle it here: is $150,000 a year crumbs, comfortable, or rich — or does it all just depend on whose bills it’s paying?
Story: Boosie Badazz — the original comments from his Instagram Live (via Traps N Trunks repost), defense video via The Shade Room.
