{"id":6724,"date":"2026-11-03T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:56:13","slug":"bigxthaplug-surveys-the-scene-from-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6724","title":{"rendered":"BigXthaPlug Surveys The Scene From The Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">On his previous album, 2025\u2019s I Hope You\u2019re Happy, the irrepressible Dallas rapper <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>BigXthaPlug<\/strong><\/span><\/em> took a break from being the torchbearer for Texas storytelling rap and reinvented himself as a brokenhearted country crooner. That record was BigX\u2019s highest-charting album to date, but his fourth album, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>BETTER OVER TIME<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, marks a welcome return to his Southern rap roots, grounding his naturally chopped and screwed drawl in luxurious-sounding soul samples and tight-knit rhyme schemes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6725\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Music\/?p=6561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6725\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BETTER-OVER-TIME.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BETTER-OVER-TIME.jpg 270w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BETTER-OVER-TIME-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Stream Now! Image Courtesy Of Apple.<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">BigX surveys the scene from the top, marveling at how far he\u2019s come (\u201cIt feels good to be stable, took some time\/Just bought my pops a house and gave like 50 to my mom,\u201d he brags on \u201cNO LIMIT,\u201d with a Biggie-referencing hook from Leon Thomas) while also noticing how every win comes at a cost\u2014be it fake friends on the GloRilla duet \u201cFAF,\u201d or locals who say they don\u2019t see him around Dallas anymore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Still, the hustle continues to feed his family, keep his mind right, and continue getting better: \u201cI done already made me a name of being the largest, but I could be bigger,\u201d X promises on \u201cLITE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Every product\/service is selected by editors. 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That record was BigX\u2019s highest-charting album to date, but his fourth album, BETTER OVER TIME, marks a welcome return to his Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[920],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}