Rvshvd

RVSHVD encapsulated his singular style on the 2023 single “Hit Different,” declaring that he merged a touch of Lil Wayne with a hint of Travis Tritt. The Georgian country singer, raised on hip-hop yet drawn toward country, first built an online following through country reinterpretations of hip-hop tracks. After a 2020 country version of Roddy Ricch’s “Ballin’” circulated widely, he issued his own singles while joining remixes by fellow artists, maintaining a steady stream of releases throughout the early 2020s. Early in 2024 he delivered his debut EP, The Intro, bolstered by the Paul Wall collaboration “Hunnids in a Honky Tonk.”

Clint Rashad Johnson, a native of the small Georgian town of Willacoochee, sang gospel in church while simultaneously absorbing hip-hop. Keith Urban’s “Sweet Thing” prompted his conversion to country, guiding him toward Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, and Jason Aldean. At Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College he enrolled in the music program before shifting toward music journalism. In his free time he continued creating music, focusing first on hip-hop and then experimenting with country by 2018. Those initial country efforts appeared on his 2019 debut EP, Memories, which he followed quickly with the single “Reminder” and the Be Somebody EP. During this period RVSHVD cultivated listeners by posting country renditions of hip-hop songs online, and his country take on Roddy Ricch’s “Ballin’” went viral in 2020, expanding his reach across both country and hip-hop audiences.

Once “Ballin’” broadened his visibility, RVSHVD accelerated his output. By the close of 2020 he had joined Renee Blair on “Death Bed (coffee for your head)” and released the solo tracks “Dirt Road” and “My Side of Town.” Early in 2021 “Raised Up” reached number four on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. He then contributed to two remixes—Trey Lewis’s “Dicked Down in Dallas” and Cooper Alan’s “Colt 45 (Country Remix)”—before closing the year with “Home to Me” and “Never Change.”

RVSHVD began 2022 by appearing on “You’re a Fucking Bitch Hope You Know That Shit (TikTok Remix)” alongside Atlus and Phix. “Cottonmouth” remained his sole solo release that year, yet 2023 proved far more active: he issued “Hit Different” and “Reverse,” featured on Willie Jones and Blanco Brown’s “For My Dawgs,” and unveiled “For the Streets,” “Shoebox Money,” and “Small Town Talk” before offering the holiday numbers “Run Rudolph Run” and “My Tree.”

After teaming with Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria on “Deal with the Devil,” RVSHVD opened the campaign for The Intro by releasing “Hunnids in a Honky Tonk” with Paul Wall.