Known for his twangy take on the Dirty South sound, rapper Bubba Sparxxx rose to
prominence in the early aughts through a series of releases that seamlessly
amalgamated hardcore hip-hop with country and rock music. Born Warren Anderson
Mathis on March 6, 1977, he grew up in a rural community right outside LaGrange,
Georgia. He was introduced to hip-hop by a neighbor and quickly developed a
voracious appetite for the genre, listening to everything from 2 Live Crew and
Outkast to N.W.A or Too Short. Rapping, which started as a hobby during his
teenage years, would later become his ...