Not to mention things were changing in rural areas during my teenage years. Folks were still hard-working and had traditional values, but drugs and violence had become more prevalent as a new generation of boys and girls became men and women in this environment.
In some ways, the lower class, even out there where we were, started to identify as much with rap music as country. We had hooked up with Organized Noize and Timbaland, two of the most accomplished and respected names in urban music, and they had really bought in to what we were trying to do. This was an exciting time!
His debut single, "Ugly," hit urban radio by storm, and his debut album Dark Days, Bright Nights followed. Since then he has proven himself to be a deft rapper and visual lyricist; his paunch and country drawl provide the glue that holds it all together. After an instantly successful debut overseen by producer Timbaland, Bubba Sparxxx now returns with his second album, Deliverance, ready to show the world that there's more to come from this rising star.
Bubba Sparxxx hangs with Crow's Crew and you find him brutalizing his opponents in the Pit in Queensbridge. If fighting for the Brooklyn Crew, Bubba Sparxxx will be the first to express his desire to become the new O. I had a bunch of cows, ponds fully stocked with fish.
I just lived that life. I would still go do shows, but I really was just taking it easy. I was doing a lot of research within myself and went through a lot of therapy. Just a lot of things to take care of myself and nurture myself. I was growing up and easing into my thirties. I was kinda, like, at a point where I didn't know what I had to say. What would be my message? What is it that I really, really have on my heart that I needed to convey? One thing I discovered was exercise chuckles.
That became my major new addiction. I ran quite a bit and lifted weights often. It wasn't until or that I really started recording again. I had made some real progress in terms of lots of therapy, and really, really felt good with where I was as a person.
At that point, once I ironed out all those issues internally, then I craved music again. I'm back at it now. I'm enjoying the ride right now, and people tell me all the time I look younger and fresher than I did when I entered the game at It's not that I'll ever aspire to achieve pop-culture celebrity status, if you will — and that's not necessarily my goal — but I do want to reach a point where people acknowledge me. I do feel like my story was incomplete. I feel like I was capable, and I am capable, of achieving so much more.
It would have been ideal if I hadn't taken a seven- to eight-year hiatus in between, but I did. And if hadn't taken a break, I wouldn't be here today. Bubba Sparxxx had the bad luck to do both at once. But there was more to him than that—he and producer Timbaland were trying to fuse modern country and rap into a whole new style of music.
His second career as an unlikely snap music superstar was derailed by an addiction that sent him spiraling off the deep end into unproductivity. And now, Bubba is ready to reclaim what he started.
LaGrange, like many small southern towns, started as a mill village—he grew up on McCosh Mill Road, which dead-ended into West Point Lake, where the old mill was. People rode around, had parties, threw bonfires.
He began rhyming at the age of Still, he held his aspirations of rap stardom close to the chest, not rapping in front of others for years. After high school, Bubba moved to Athens, Georgia, where his best friend had a football scholarship at the University of Georgia, and he began seriously pursuing his dreams. This was in the mid-to-late 90s. The stars seemed to be aligning for Bubba very quickly.
In , he released an independent version of his debut record Dark Days, Bright Nights that garnered enough buzz to get him signed to Interscope. From there, he was whisked into recording sessions with Organized Noize and Swizz Beatz for an official re-release of Dark Days. After those sessions failed to yield a single, Interscope label head Jimmy Iovine introduced Bubba to superproducer Timbaland, who quickly signed the rapper to his Beat Club imprint.
Its video was like an episode of Dukes of Hazzard , as directed by David Lynch. The clip featured such arresting imagery as the chubby rapper spitting in a mud pit as men wrestled pigs behind him, a beauty pageant for leathery, middle-aged women, a gaunt gentleman covered in shaving cream taking a razor to his armpits, a man rubbing live rats on his chest, and an elementary school-aged girl grinning wide to reveal a plug of chewing tobacco wedged in her jaws.
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