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How To Book BUBBA SPARXXX For Your Event!
Bubba Sparxxx
may be available for your next special event!


Hits include: "Deliverance",
"Ms. New Booty", "Heat It Up",
"Back In The Mud", "Ugly",
"Lovely", "Jimmy Mathis".
The thought of a white boy from the backwoods of Georgia making a rap album
is as mind-boggling as that of a black kid from Harlem belting out
country tunes. But Bubba Sparxxx will break down the
stereotypical barriers and leave you wondering why it's taken so long
for a talented white rapper to emerge from the south. He describes his
overall style as "southern hip-hop, with an emphasis on hip-hop,
and a rock 'n' roll edge."
Bubba
Sparxxx was born Warren Anderson Mathis in
LaGrange, Georgia, 65 miles southwest of Atlanta. The youngest of Jimmy
and June Mathis' five children, he was the only child who wasn't from a
previous marriage. June, a grocery store cashier, called her youngest
child "Andy." Father Jimmy also worked at a grocery store,
first as a meat cutter and later as a manager; he also worked as a
school bus driver and had a stint driving a Lance Potato Chip truck.
"He was kind of a jack-of-all-trades," Sparxxx said.
Music wasn't a big part of Sparxxx's life until 1988.
"I didn't have much access to it because I grew up so far out into
the country," he said. "We didn't have cable TV. I grew up on
a dirt road about 15 minutes north of LaGrange. It was extremely rural.
My closest neighbor was between a half mile and a mile away. My closest
neighbor was a black kid and that was actually my first exposure to
rap.
His cousin was sending him mix tapes from New
York." The first rap song Bubba Sparxxx ever heard was a track by
2 Live
Crew. While he later heard music by
Run-DMC and the Fat Boys, Sparxxx
was especially intrigued by West Coast rappers N.W.A,
Too $hort and Eazy-E.
"I think maybe it was just because of the rebellious attitude, and
I also like the beats," Sparxxx said. "I think that was Dr.
Dre's first stint as a producer and an emphasis was placed on the beats more
than ever before." While
Too $hort's music turned Bubba Sparxxx into
a rap fan, it was the Atlanta group
OutKast that inspired Sparxxx to
become an active participant in hip-hop.
At 15, he began writing rhymes when he had a spare moment. But
those were few and far between since the teen always had to work.
"I wasn't too much of a trouble making kid," Sparxxx
explained. "I just worked to help out at the house and worked to
have anything that I had." Still, he would battle rhyme in the
cafeteria, in gym class and after school. "I wasn't seriously
pursuing it because, in this one-horse town, there wasn't an outlet for
it," Sparxxx said. "There were only like two or three other
guys that rapped at my school. We had such limited exposure to hip-hop
that we just craved it."
After briefly attending community college, Bubba Sparxxx visited his best
friend, Steven Herndon and met his soon-to-be manager, Bobby Stamps.
"He heard me rap," Sparxxx said. "We were just f*****g
around. And he knew Shannon Houchins, who was a signed staff producer
for So So Def, Jermaine Dupri's label out of Atlanta." Houchins
called Sparxxx late in '96 and paired him with then-So So Def rapper
Jason Brown. Bubba Sparxxx rapped under the name Lil Devil and the group was
called One Card Shi. Though the duo recorded 10 to 15 songs, they never
released anything and drifted apart in 1998. Perhaps discouraged,
Sparxxx took a year off from rapping. "It was like I was trying to
fit a certain prototype," he said of his stint in One Card Shi.
Then it hit him. Sparxxx had to be his own man. He had to express his
unique style and let people know what he was really all about. It was
then that he became Bubba Sparxxx.
"Growing up, a lot of my family members called me 'Bubba,' "
Sparxxx said. "And I came up with 'Sparxxx' because it was catchy
with Triple-X at the end." At the beginning of '99, Sparxxx started
recording songs with Houchins again. Once they had 10 tracks done, they
came in contact with Doug Kaye, whose Sarasota, Florida, Newtowne Music
Group had been putting out albums independently for about a decade. Kaye
liked Sparxxx's work and soon pressed up copies of a 12-song indy
version of "Dark Days, Bright Nights," releasing it on
Noncents Recordings, a label co-run by Bubba Sparxxx. The album got radio play
in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. It sold 1,500 units and Noncents
evolved into 11th Hour Entertainment, which is run by Sparxxx, Houchins
and Kaye.
Sparxxx's biggest break came when a copy of "Dark Days, Bright
Nights" came to the attention of Interscope A&R rep Gerardo
"Rico Suave" Mejia, who got it into the hands of Interscope
Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine. The album was so well received
that Interscope flew Sparxxx in to discuss a record deal. "It was
actually my first plane ride," Sparxxx recalled. "It was Aug.
1, 2000. They said they were going to make an offer, and that started a
frenzy. We ended up with 11 offers from 11 different labels. Still,
Interscope always felt like the best place."
After signing Bubba Sparxxx, Iovine inked a deal with
Timbaland that made the producer's Beat Club imprint a subsidiary of Interscope. Iovine got
Timbaland to listen to Sparxxx's music. "Timbaland checked it out and he just went apeshit," said Sparxxx, who was
equally impressed with
Timbaland. "It was the most unbelievable
experience of my whole life," Sparxxx said of working with the
acclaimed producer. "After working with him for two weeks, I
rediscovered myself. I mean, he is the best, hands down. No question
about it."
Bubba Sparxxx, meanwhile, is ready for the
promotional tours and record release parties that await him. He's hoping
to make his mark and might even bring out his group of rockers, rappers
and genre crossovers, The Stonewall, which he calls "a traveling
gaggle of musicians, a circus of music."
For now, though, Sparxxx is focusing on becoming the next music star to
emerge from Athens, Georgia, his home of recent years. "What I want
to accomplish, honestly, is for my vibe to be effectively communicated
to the world," he said. "It's something totally new and
refreshing. It injects something new into hip-hop and I think it can
really go a long way for giving hip-hop another 10 years of life. I also
want to teach people from all different walks of life how to appreciate
and acknowledge each other's differences, so they can peacefully
co-exist. Atlanta's as booming a metropolis as there is. The South
doesn't have to take a back seat to any part of the world."
Bubba Sparxxx may be available for your next special event!
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Genre: Rap
Styles:
.Dirty South. / DirtySouth
.Southern Rap. / SouthernRap
.Country-Rap. / CountryRap
Years active:
x90s, x00s, x10s, x20s
1996-present
Born: ..in Georgia / born nGeorgia
Born: ..in La Grange / born LaGrangeGA
Born: Mar 6, 1977
Based: ..in US
Based: ..in Georgia / based nGeorgia
Based: ..in Atlanta /
based AtlantaGA
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