BigXthaPlug

One Liner: Laconic rapper with some brawny beats

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but rap.

Home: Dallas

Poster Position: Level 3 (19)
Weekend One Only. 

Saturday. 

Thoughts:  Damn.  His first track makes me think this dude should have been on the poster for that Two Step Inn.  This is an actual, for real, bad ass rap track.  Nothing groundbreaking, but a killer beat, a smooth flow, and a brawny badass feel.  I like it!  16.5 million streams.

Got that country-fied banjo start, and then the beat kicks.  Word.  I've never had the lean, but that line in there about adding so much lean to his lemonade that it looks like a Blizzard is freaking money.  That is a track.

After that beat, I obviously knew the guy was from Texas, but his slow flow made me think Houston.  Not so, he's a Dallas guy.  24 years old, and very large.  He apparently was a good football player who thought he'd get somewhere that way, but that future petered out. "He grew to a hulking 6’2” in high school and became a sought-after offensive and defensive lineman. Though recruited by the University of Minnesota, BigX didn’t have the grades to qualify academically. Instead, he enrolled at Minnesota’s Crown College to play for a season while raising his GPA just enough to transfer to the U of M. Homesick and feeling alienated as one of the few Black people on campus, BigX self-medicated with marijuana. The private Christian college, modeling the mercy of their lord and savior, showed him the door as soon as they smelled the smoke."  Haha - that is a good dig.

He moved to Austin, had a kid, and started robbing people at gunpoint to pay for his family.  SPent some time in prison too.  Over the past few years, he has blown up from nobody, now opening shows for guys like Maxo Kream and Key Glock.  He claims that his newfound fame makes him worried, in that back in the day he used to rob folks and he's worried now that his enemies might come back at him.

His earliest single on Spotify is from 2019 - "Came Thru."  It is fine, but not nearly as strong as the later stuff.  Sounds like he has gotten better with beats and learned to slow down and make his own sound.  But 2021's "Big Stepper" brings it up a notch.  That is his first single with millions in streams, although strangely it is not found on his 2022 EP called Big Stepper.  Weird.  But a good track!  First real album was 2023's AMAR, which includes "Texas" and a track from that older EP called "Safehouse."  Second-most streamed at 16.3 million.

That one has Maxo Kream on it, I don't think the studio version does though.  Do you think Maxo was like, "say, man, do we really have to take our shirts off?  Can that just be your thing?"  That track is no where near as instantly solid as "Texas," but it is still good.  "Mr. Trouble" is an older single, from 2021, that is really good too - fantastic beat.

This guy is legit.  I'd check it out.  I hope no one wants to shoot him while he is back in Austin!