BigXthaPlug is one of the leaders of hip-hop’s new school, and he’s looking to prove he’s more than a rapper with his country-trap pivot.

Ever since the arrival of his slide guitar-tinged breakout hit “Texas” in 2022, country’s biggest stars began to tap in and show love to BigX, ranging from Morgan Wallen to Luke Combs and Post Malone.

“Post Malone, Luke Combs, all those guys,” BigX told Billboard at the top of 2025. “They claim I’m their favorite rapper.”

Fittingly enough, BigX credits a Billboard interview earlier this year with pushing him to actually put a country-themed project together, after speaking about having plans for the project, even though it didn’t exist at the time.

“I go and do a Billboard interview and I straight up say, ‘I got a country project on the way,'” he tol

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