Blanco Brown

Blanco Brown fused country twang with hip-hop bounce and trap rhythms on the summer 2019 single “The Git Up,” his breakthrough track that arrived in the wake of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” Unlike Lil Nas X, whose inspiration drew equally from video games and country music, Brown brought deeper, stronger country roots along with a playful streak that prompted him to label the hybrid sound “TrailerTrap,” a quality that propelled his debut album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs onto the Top 20 of the country charts later that year. Further singles followed, among them 2021’s “Nobody’s More Country” and the 2022 track “Trap Still Bumpin,” a collaboration with T.I.

Born in Georgia, Brown split his childhood between the small town of Butler and the metropolis of Atlanta, spending the school year in Butler and summers in the larger city—an arrangement whose musical influence surfaced years afterward. Before stepping forward as a recording artist, he built a behind-the-scenes career as a producer and songwriter, working with Pitbull and Fergie and creating the 2018 World Cup anthem “Goalie Goalie,” all prior to Broken Bow Records offering him a recording contract in 2018.

The Blanco Brown EP, issued in the first half of 2019, was soon eclipsed by “The Git Up.” Released amid the country-rap surge sparked by Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” the single gained additional traction from a dance challenge Brown posted on YouTube and TikTok. That online momentum carried the song onto the Billboard Hot 100 at number 66 in June 2019; it later peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100 and number 44 on Country Airplay. Once its chart run concluded, Brown delivered his debut album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs in October, which reached number 16 on the Top Country Albums chart. The follow-up single “I Need Love” surfaced in 2020, while the collaboration “Just the Way” with Parmalee and Bryce Vine arrived the next year. Brown’s tongue-in-cheek release “Nobody’s More Country” followed later in 2021. In 2022 he joined fellow Atlanta native T.I. on “Trap Still Bumpin,” the opening track from their joint 2023 EP.