I Got Trapboy Freddy to Perform in Our Texas Prison!

Jeremy Busby explains how he pulled off the biggest hip hop concert in Texas prison history — starring Trapboy Freddy. By the time I arrived at the infamous Beto Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas, about 120 miles southeast of Dallas, I was a veteran at promoting successful concerts in prison. Since I was mostly incarcerated at prisons near Houston, the majority of the hip hop artists I brought in were from that area. Now that I was near Dallas, it was time for me to put on for my hometown. It was an opportunity I’d been relishing. Nationally, the name “Trapboy Freddy” probably doesn’t ring a bell, but in Texas, especially Dallas, Trapboy Freddy is a hip hop god! His fiery rapid delivery, street-laced gangsta lyrics, and kingpin persona propelled him to the top of all the local hip hop charts. You couldn’t cut on the radio without hearing one of his songs blasting and you couldn’t walk by a cell without hearing a prisoner banging one of his hits. I went and informed the prison’s chaplain that it was Trapboy Freddy who I wanted to invite for my first concert at Beto. The unit chaplain had control over all...