- GOV’T NAME: Xavier Landum
- AGE: 26
- REPPIN’: Dallas
- X: @BigXthaPlugg
- INSTAGRAM: @bigxthaplug
- TIKTOK: @bigxthaplug_
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Texas,” “Mmhmm,” “Ranges,” “Whip It”; Album: Amar EP: The Greatest Mission: Meet the 6ixers with Ro$ama and Yung Hood; Visitor Appearances: NLE Choppa’s “Pistol Paccin,” That Mexican OT’s “Hit Listing” that includes Large Yavo, Mike Dimes’ “Off The Porch” that includes Maxo Kream
- LABEL: 600 Ent./UnitedMasters
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Sophomore album Take Care dropping in August.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “I really feel like Karrahbooo shoulda made it. Anycia. Veeze was the Ja Morant of rap final 12 months, for certain. I simply really feel like I assumed he would’ve led it. YTB Fatt had an impressive 12 months.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “I didn’t develop as much as do music. I used to be presupposed to play sports activities. So, I assume you might say the individuals who turned me up and acquired me in my mindset whereas I used to be taking part in sports activities, you bought Lil Wayne, the outdated Kanye was arduous. I’m a R&B sort of man. I hearken to Rod Wave and stuff like that to at the present time. For those who wanna throw again, you bought Avant, you bought, you already know, your Boyz II Males, you bought your Isley Brothers. That’s all my pops listening to.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “Me and all my patnas, we at all times knew we was gonna be one thing. We simply didn’t know what it was gonna be. ’Trigger we was at all times like, the favored… We hung with seniors. We was at all times these guys. After which soccer, sports activities simply made it instances 10. So yeah, we was at all times below some limelight. In order a freshman, I knew I used to be gonna be one thing.”
This is sort of a stepping-stone on this. You gotta do that. All people that did this [XXL Freshman]—I’m not gonna say all people—however majority of the individuals, even when they declined in music, you continue to can come again and look proper right here and see it, you already know what I’m sayin’? I needed to be on this checklist. I’m a type of those that every time I do one thing, I do it. So, as quickly as I had the mindset of, OK, wager, I’m finna do music, in my head, each accomplishment, you already know what I’m sayin’? I gotta be on the XXL, I gotta win a BET award. All that popped into my head. All of the stuff that I used to be seeing individuals do, simply rising up, watching on TV and whatnot, I needed to try this ’trigger I felt like that’s what exhibits that this individual is a superb rapper, you already know what I’m sayin’?
[What I bring to this class is] simply character, humor. I’m speaking about a number of harsh gangsta-type stuff, however in additional of a fab manner. I’m tryna make rap enjoyable once more, you already know what I’m sayin? I make individuals transfer their hips. You a gangsta, you bought your gun in your hand, however your hips shifting on the identical time, you already know?”—As informed to Georgette Cline
Watch BigXthaPlug’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
BigXthaPlug is having his manner. The 26-year-old Dallas rapper has been dwelling massive ever since his sonorous voice took his rhymes to new ranges exterior the Lone Star State. His hometown-pride anthem “Texas” and Billboard Sizzling 100 smash “Mmhmm” spotlight the intelligent magnetism and placing storytelling that has put him on the forefront of Texas avenue rap over the past 12 months. He brings each—and masses of cash—to his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle.
The previous soccer participant flexes the ice on his wrist and tooth whereas placing a bounty on somebody’s head. “50K on my watch, 30K on my face, 60K in your head should you play then you definately late/Who you already know up the rating and placed on for his state/You may hate, simply do not play with my of us and also you nice,” BigX raps within the video under.
Rising up, the Southern MC was centered on the gridiron not rapping. Whereas Lil Wayne and Ye had been artists he listened to on the come up, BigXthaPlug was extra of an “R&B sort of man.” He makes that clear in his freestyle with a shout-out to 1990’s R&B group Escape. “See I actually been gliding on sh*t like Escape, greatest steppa,” BigX delivers. “Once I step on sh*t, wager it shake/Oh you tougher than me, I do not do the debates/I acquired cake, I can by no means get talked out my place.”
BigXthaPlug’s place in rap is solidified proper now. As an indie artist signed to UnitedMasters, he is been driving excessive on the charts with no main label backing. His 2023 feel-good hit track, “Mmhmm,” is harking back to Will Smith’s personal 1997 smash “Miami,” since each tracks pattern The Whispers’ 1979 basic track “And the Beat Goes On.” “Mmhmm” debuted at No. 93 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 final December. For a person who did not have large rap desires as a child, BigX’s abilities have taken him fairly far. He is additionally been pumping out loads of tasks since 2020: Bacc From the Lifeless, Large Stepper, Amar, The Greatest and the collab effort Meet the Sixers with Ro$ama and Yung Hood. BigX retains it constant.
“I didn’t develop as much as do music,” he admits. “I used to be presupposed to play sports activities. So, I assume you might say the individuals who turned me up and acquired me in my mindset whereas I used to be taking part in sports activities, you bought Lil Wayne, the outdated Kanye was arduous. I am a R&B sort of man. I hearken to Rod Wave and stuff like that to at the present time. For those who wanna throw again, you bought Avant, you bought, you already know, your Boyz II Males, you bought your Isley Brothers. That is all my pops listening to.”
Nowadays, avenue rap is BigX’s forte, and he is large steppin’ throughout it. Take Care, his forthcoming sophomore album arriving in August, will function a mixture of BigX’s amusing bars “[What I bring to this class is] simply character, humor,” he maintains. “I am speaking about a number of harsh gangsta-type stuff, however in additional of a fab manner. I am tryna make rap enjoyable once more, you already know what I am sayin? I make individuals transfer their hips. You a gangsta, you bought your gun in your hand, however your hips shifting on the identical time, you already know?”
Have a look as BigXthaPlug dodges the debates in his freestyle under.
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