Boosie Paid $600K for a Pardon That Never Came. So He Performed "Set It Off" Outside the White House and Called Out Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl
Boosie Badazz performed "Set It Off" on the sidewalk outside the White House on Oct. 9 and called out pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl by name. He says he paid them $600K for a Trump pardon that never came and is fighting to get $300K back. They deny it.
Boosie Badazz didn't get his pardon. So he went to the White House anyway.
On Friday, Oct. 9, the Baton Rouge rapper set up on the public sidewalk outside the White House in Washington, D.C., and performed his 2006 street anthem "Set It Off" for whoever was walking by. Video posted by The DMV Live (credited to cashent1 on Instagram) shows a small crowd dancing, laughing and filming, with the White House behind him.
He didn't stop at the song. "Man, we at the White House, set it off!" he says in a clip he posted himself. Then he names names: "I'm looking for Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl. Where you at?" The same line shows up in a second angle reposted by RapHouseTV.
Those are the two political operatives Boosie says he paid $600,000 to help get him a pardon from President Trump on his federal gun case. The pardon never came. In March, Boosie started an arbitration case to get $300,000 of that money back, according to a June filing from the other side reported by Baller Alert. Burkman, Wohl and their firm, JM Burkman & Associates, deny his claims and dispute that there was ever a deal to refund half the fee. A White House official told The Breakfast Club's Loren LoRosa that the clemency team never heard from the pair.
The sidewalk show came a day after Boosie popped out as a special guest at Capital One Arena on the Cash Money & No Limit Tour. On Instagram he wrote that he "had dam good time n DC," said he killed the stage at the arena, and called himself the "first artist to perform on the White House lawn," adding, "What up Slim, we outside." For the record, he was on the sidewalk, not the lawn.
Nobody has confirmed the show was a protest or a direct message to Trump, as AllHipHop noted. The White House hasn't commented on it. The money fight is still open.
So is Boosie ever seeing that $300,000?
Sources: Boosie Badazz on Instagram (repost via 2Cool2Blog on X, Oct. 10, 2026); The DMV Live on X (Oct. 9); RapHouseTV on X (Oct. 9); AllHipHop (Mike Winslow, Oct. 10); Complex (Trey Alston, Oct. 11); Baller Alert (Sept. 15). Photo: Boosie Badazz outside the White House, Oct. 9, 2026, frame from sidewalk footage reposted by RapHouseTV.