It was an attempt to find common ground between the poor white people and poor black people he’d grown up around. His 2003 album, Deliverance, mixed acoustic guitars, bluesy harmonica, bits of live fiddle and Timbaland’s elastic beats with Sparxxx’s tales of rural Georgia. I hadn’t yet figured out that I needed to talk about country shit and who I really was.” When he did, in 2001, he scored a head-spinning hit with the Timbaland-produced “Ugly,” and seemed poised for a huge breakout. “I was just talking about Uzis and dumb shit. “It was all stuff not based in reality,” he says. He had real skills but no sense of what to rap about. Sparxxx was obsessed with hip-hop and spent years as a fledgling rapper. Anytime that was going on, they were sneaking around.” “It was pretty much 50 percent black and 50 percent white, but you didn’t see mixed couples in the early Nineties. “I grew up in a racially charged environment,” he says.
Sparxxx was raised on a farm outside LaGrange, Georgia. I don’t want to be looked at as starting anything that’s not reflective of caring about hip-hop culture as much as I care about hip-hop culture.” Sparxxx has serious issues with the country-rap scene. He then spends the better portion of six weeks ignoring my calls, texts and emails, before finally calling me one afternoon. So, early one morning in September, I drive from Atlanta to Nashville to meet with him. It all radiates out from places like this.”Ĭountry rap’s origins can be traced pretty clearly to one guy: Bubba Sparxxx. All this with little to no help from the mainstream music industry or traditional media outlets.Īs Big Smo, a beefy MC from Tennessee, puts it as we wander the Moccasin Creek campground, “What you see here is the center of the whole country hip-hop thing. Videos for these artists can top 10 million YouTube views.
Colt Ford has sold more than 1.5 million albums. Two different Lacs albums have gone Top Five on both Billboard’s rap and country charts. Bottleneck, a heavyset rapper from Florida, seemed to sum this up tidily with the oversize T-shirt he wore during his set Friday evening: Modeled on the classic N.W.A album Straight Outta Compton, it read, “Straight Outta White Guilt.”Īrtists like the Lacs, Colt Ford, Big Smo, Upchurch and Moonshine Bandits are stars in this world, and even though they’re hardly household names outside it, this isn’t some tiny niche.
The Lacs dubbed their fall tour with Big Smo and fellow country rappers Demun Jones and Shotgun Shane the “Deplorables Tour.” The cultural appropriation on display is brazen and unapologetic. The complicated politics are hard to miss. More than a dozen off-road vehicles line the outside of the track, blasting a hazy mash-up of songs that’s pretty typical of what the music fans here play all weekend: Brad Paisley’s “Old Alabama,” Young Jeezy’s “Where I’m From,” Sam Hunt’s “House Party,” Chance the Rapper’s “No Problem,” Young Thug’s “Best Friend,” the Lacs’ “Kickin’ Up Mud.” Sharpe, an amiable, brawny colossus in a Falcons hat and a sleeveless vest, and King, reed-thin in a loose-fitting T-shirt and jeans, watch as four-wheelers slowly circle the swampy track, with riders somehow gripping beers, cigarettes, vehicles and significant others. On Saturday, with the temperature nearing triple digits, the Lacs’ two MCs, Clay Sharpe and Brian King, stand at the edge of a deep circular track filled with about three feet of muddy water. The park has eight miles of backcountry trails and several mud bogs, which serve as raucous gathering spots throughout the weekend.
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Nearly 7,000 people will make their way to this dusty patch of Southeast Georgia this weekend to ride four-wheelers through the mud, dodge fire ants, drink Bud Light and listen to live sets by artists like Bottleneck, Moonshine Bandits, Big Smo and the festival’s patrons, the Lacs. On a Thursday in late September, RVs, pickup trucks and trailers loaded with all manner of all-terrain vehicles wait to enter the park for the sixth annual Lactember Fest, quite possibly the world’s biggest celebration of country rap. Just south of Blackshear, Georgia, down a bumpy dirt road, the Moccasin Creek Off-Road Park spreads across 500 acres of wooded countryside.
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