David Morris

David Morris works as a country singer, rapper, and songwriter from West Virginia. He gained viral traction via his reworking of George Strait’s “Carrying Your Love with Me,” issued as “Carrying Your Love.” The track began circulating widely on TikTok during 2022 and landed on both the eight-song EP Hometown Heartbreak and the 2023 album Bored in the USA, the latter also containing the major hit “Dutton Ranch Freestyle.” A ten-song mixtape titled Spare Parts arrived in late 2024.

Although raised in Charleston, Morris initially stepped away from his Appalachian heritage, first heading to New York and then Los Angeles, where he issued rap recordings under the name D-Why. By the late 2010s he had settled in Nashville and resumed recording under his own name. Early efforts such as “Settle Down” and “Pretty Rider” favored gritty country-rock, yet he soon fused sparse hip-hop beats and rapped verses with rural country subject matter and melodic hooks. The 2019 EP Small Town Friday Night preceded his 2020 debut album Red, White & American Blues and streaming successes including “Who Hurt You” and “Does He Know About Us.” As his social-media reach expanded, a retooled rap rendition of Strait’s 1997 hit drew enough support from followers to turn “Carrying Your Love” into a TikTok phenomenon that also revived interest in the original recording.

Opening 2022’s eight-song EP Hometown Heartbreak, the track helped launch the hits “Who Hurt You” and “Come Back.” “Carrying Your Love” reappeared on 2024’s sixteen-song album Bored in the USA, which housed the major hit “Dutton Ranch Freestyle,” whose streaming figures nearly doubled those of “Carrying Your Love.” Morris concluded the year by releasing the ten-song mixtape Spare Parts in the final weeks of December 2024. He additionally offered a limited-edition CD-R version of Spare Parts, with every disc signed and individually hand-decorated by Morris himself.