Rappers are known to exaggerate for street cred. Mostly to create an aura of either authenticity or mythos to get fans to buy in. It's the nature of the game. But there's exaggerating, and then there's just lying.A viral clip of one particularly outrageous lie is making the rounds again, three years later. It's from Memphis rapper Big Boogie's Feb. 17, 2023, appearance on the Bootleg Kev podcast, where Boogie claimed he'd been offered a scholarship to be drum major at a "big college in Jacksonville." (Drum majors conduct the marching band and keep it in tempo. Not to be confused with the drum line.)
Per Boogie, he turned the offer down to focus on rap. The offer was worth $5 million, he says — though he started at $15 million before quickly talking himself down. After a visibly stunned Bootleg Kev presses him, the number softens again to "somewhere...in the millions."
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What makes the clip so funny is the sheer audacity of the lie. Boogie clearly has no idea how college scholarships work, and clearly doesn't care. The whole exchange occurs within the first 3 minutes of a 40-minute podcast. Kev spends part of it confused about Boogie getting paid to "play the drums," even though Boogie had just clarified he was a drum major, not a drummer. Oh, and the school wanted him for a decade, too. A decade of undergrad drum majoring.None of this needs fact-checking. But I have the time.
