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The profile · researched 22 September 2026
From a jail-issued medical form to No. 7 on the Billboard 200
BigXthaPlug is the Dallas rapper who took Southern trap into Nashville's orbit on 2025's I Hope You're Happy, and who spent the summer of 2026 balancing festival headline slots against a second August arrest.
Commerce, Ferris and a medical form in solitary
Xavier Darnell Landum was born in Dallas on 12 May 1998, the son of parents whose record collection ran from the Isley Brothers and UGK to Drake and Lil Wayne. At the age of about four or five he watched his mother fire a gun at a man attempting to rob the family. At nine he moved to Commerce, Texas with his father, and football became the thing that held his attention through a school career otherwise spent skipping classes and fighting; Division 1 scouts took an interest.
He graduated from Ferris High School in 2016 and enrolled at Crown College in Minnesota, where he sold cannabis to other students until police found drugs in his dormitory and the college expelled him. Unable to find steady work, he began robbing drug dealers. An aggravated robbery charge landed before his eighteenth birthday; a later probation violation put him back inside, and he missed his son's first birthday from a cell. In solitary confinement he wrote his first raps on a jail-issued medical form.
Out again, he paid for studio time with street money and recorded the mixtape Bacc from the Dead. A 2022 arrest on weapons and cannabis charges put him back in isolation, and he wrote there too. The pattern — custody, then a batch of songs — has followed him ever since.
Amar, Take Care and the 600 Entertainment build
The debut album Amar arrived in February 2023 and carried 'Texas', which has since been certified double platinum. That October he released 'Mmhmm', which climbed to No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 after a remix with Finesse2tymes. The same year he set up his own label, 600 Entertainment, signing the rappers Ro$ama and Yung Hood, and took the Don't Mess With Texas Tour out on the road.
Take Care, released on 11 October 2024 through UnitedMasters, was the record that moved him from regional to national. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 8 with 48,000 album-equivalent units — his first top-ten entry — while topping the Independent Albums chart and reaching No. 3 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. 'The Largest' (9 August 2024) and 'Change Me' (27 September 2024) led it; Wallo267 supplied spoken-word passages across the tracklist. AllMusic gave it three and a half stars and described a record built on lush soul samples and booming beats. A deluxe edition followed on 24 January 2025, adding 'Holy Ground' with Jessie Murph. The album is certified platinum in the United States and gold in New Zealand.
Through all of it he has stayed on UnitedMasters rather than signing to a major label, which is why his albums keep appearing near the top of the Independent Albums chart as well as the Billboard 200.
The country turn
I Hope You're Happy, released on 22 August 2025, is the record that changed what rooms he plays. BandPlay led the production, working alongside Tony Coles, Charley Cooks, Dave Cohen and Landum himself, and the guest list read like a Nashville summit: Post Malone, Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Shaboozey, Darius Rucker, Bailey Zimmerman, Ella Langley, Thomas Rhett, Tucker Wetmore and Ink. The singles had been laid out across the spring and summer — 'All the Way' with Bailey Zimmerman on 4 April 2025, 'Home' with Shaboozey on 27 June, 'Hell at Night' with Ella Langley on 8 August.
It debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 2 on both the Independent Albums and Top Country Albums charts, and has been certified gold. Rolling Stone gave it three stars out of five, crediting its reach towards country listeners and the emotional detail in tracks such as '24/7' and 'Hell at Night'. Billboard's Michael Saponara wrote about the way the record merges hip-hop with country phrasing rather than borrowing its surface.
The collaboration that had been teased longest surfaced afterwards. 'Cold', with Post Malone, came out on 21 November 2025 and sits on the deluxe edition; the two had been hinting at a joint record since December 2024, and the video was shot that November around a ranch and a campfire. It reached No. 82 on the Hot 100, No. 19 on Hot Country Songs and No. 73 on the Canadian Hot 100. In December 2025 Landum signed a publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing.
Two Augusts, one year apart
On 21 August 2025, hours after I Hope You're Happy went live, Dallas police arrested him on charges of possessing under two ounces of cannabis and unlawfully carrying a firearm. He spent a night in Dallas County jail, was released on a $5,000 bond, and missed the album's release party in Deep Ellum. He later walked through the episode on a Twitch stream, describing officers who, as he told it, did nothing during questioning but play his music back at him, until he told them to turn it off and take him to jail.
Exactly a year later, on 21 August 2026, he was arrested again — this time in Allen, Texas, after a traffic stop — and booked into Collin County Jail on charges of driving while intoxicated, cannabis possession under two ounces and unlawful possession of a firearm. He was on bail from the 2025 charges at the time. Allen Police's Sam Rippamonti would confirm only that an arrest had been made, the investigation being active.
The commercial cost was immediate. His headline set at Country Rising Festival in Winnipeg on 22 August 2026 was pulled, the festival telling ticket-holders he was no longer performing because of a personal emergency, and jail records showed him still in custody the following morning with an Iowa State Fair booking on the calendar.
Where the autumn sits
The touring year before the arrest was a festival year rather than a headline run. Documented 2026 appearances include the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois on 14 June, Nissan Stadium in Nashville on 30 June, and Ottawa Bluesfest on 11 July, where he played the longest logged set of the year at twelve songs.
The nearest dates are Canadian and supporting: 24 September 2026 at Place Bell in Laval and 25 September at the RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto, both on Shaboozey's Outlaws Never Die Tour. That tour was announced on 28 April 2026 and runs from 8 September to 27 October behind Shaboozey's album The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales, released on 31 July 2026, with support rotating by region — Brittney Spencer through Phoenix, Austin and Dallas, Carter Faith on the west coast, Noah Cyrus at Red Rocks — and BigXthaPlug taking the Canadian leg.
After that the calendar thins out to one-offs: Fresno Fairground on 10 October, Hakkasan in Las Vegas on 30 October and Aggie Park in College Station, Texas on 7 November. A 24 October date at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium in Louisville is listed as cancelled.
The show, now
A BigXthaPlug set in 2026 is festival-shaped rather than an arena production: across the year's logged setlists the average runs to eight songs, and the order is fairly settled — 'Back On My BS', 'Hell At Night', a cover of Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas', 'Cold', 'All The Way', 'Texas', 'Home' and 'The Largest'. He works alone at the front, with the country duet parts carried on backing tracks rather than by guests, which is why the Langley cover and 'All The Way' land as mass sing-alongs. Lengths vary sharply with the slot: four songs at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash in Bridgeview on 14 June 2026, nine at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on 30 June, twelve at Ottawa Bluesfest on 11 July. Older Dallas material still anchors the close — 'Texas' is the most-played song in his documented history, logged at 22 shows. The two September dates in Laval and Toronto are opening slots on Shaboozey's Outlaws Never Die Tour, so those sets will sit at the shorter end.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · cbsnews.com · stereogum.com · complex.com · setlist.fm
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