That Mexican OT

One Liner:  Cool mix of Tejano culture and southern hip hop

Wikipedia Genre:  Southern hip hop

Home: Bay City, Texas (although he's bound to live somewhere else now)

Poster Position: 8
Both Weekends.
Sunday at 5:45.

T-Mobile Stage.

Thoughts:  My first impression is that he sort of sounds like that DaBaby guy with his flow.  But then I really love the little touches of culture like a grito yelped out here and there or a background snippet of cojunto or mariachi.  He sounds like Kevin Gates sometimes too, that depth of voice.  And he has an entire album that is fully chopped and screwed, which is harder to fully enjoy as a normal dude sitting in his office working.  I think you need to be sipping lean for that to sound good.  Although now, as I listen through more of this, he has so many guests (including DaBaby and Z-Ro and Slim Thug and Paul Wall and others) that I'm not entirely sure when I am hearing him do the vocals or when it is the other guy on the track.  BUT, I will say that the track with DaBaby low key rules.  18.8 million streams.

Love the Pulp Fiction ripoff.  Love that he has "tacos, diamonds, and coke."  The chorus is the money part, with a perfect flow over that brawny beat.  Dig it.  My guy can get silly too, on one of the albums there are spoken word bits calling a luchador fight that includes "The Invisible Masturbator" waiting to be tagged in.

Virgil Rene Gazca (never seen that last name before) is the real name, and he is from Bay City, Texas.  I am not familiar with that city - I sort of figured it was just part of Houston and the massive sprawl down there - but it appears to be its own little town near Matagorda.  18k residents, and Wikipedia interestingly notes that it is majority Hispanic by a large percentage. But enough about the town - Virgil's mom was killed in a drunk driving collision when he was eight, and his father was in jail for at least part of his childhood.  So, no Leave it to Beaver childhood here.  After high school he was releasing rap tapes independently and gathering some steam with his new moniker - OT stands for Outta Texas for some reason - until getting signed and releasing his 2023 Lonestar Luchador album on a label.  It is a fun album - just something different from the other rappers of today to hear some regional flair.

His earliest track is 2020's "Yoppas & Choppas," and it is pretty weak in comparison to what he is doing now.  But he's been saying his tagline - "is that That Mexican OT?" - ever since the first moment.  His first mixtape, Southside Steppin, popped out in 2017 and has a weird sound issue where some of the songs are more quiet than others.  The top song on there is called "Boobies."  He looks very baby-faced on the cover compared to his look now.  After that, he released 1 Double 0 in 2021, Nonsense and Mexican Shit in 2022, and then The Show Must Go On in 2023, before he finally nailed his major hit in 2023 off of that Luchador album.  "Johnny Dang," featuring Paul Wall and something called DRODi has 120.5 million streams.

Oh, its a jeweler.  DRODi looks like he plays outfield for the Astros' double A affiliate and just wandered into the video shoot.  But I very much enjoy that they are letting the little jeweler guy be a part of the video and advertise how he likes to drink and pull on his lips.  Catchy track.  This guy is honestly very enjoyable.

So far I care about very little on Sunday, so I'd go check this guy out.