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Warren Anderson Mathis (born March 6, 1977), known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American Southern rapper. His biggest hit is "Ms. New Booty" featuring The Ying Yang Twins which peaked at #7 in the United States. He is also noted for his hit singles "Deliverance" and "Ugly".
Born Warren Anderson Mathis on March 6, 1977, Sparxxx is of French descent, and grew up in a rural area north of LaGrange, Georgia, a town 65 miles southwest of Atlanta. His father was a school bus driver, and his mother was a grocery store cashier. His closest neighbor, who lived half a mile away, introduced Mathis to rap music through mixtapes mailed from New York City. The music of 2 Live Crew was his introduction to hip-hop; he began listening to West Coast gangsta rap such as N.W.A and Too Short and the Atlanta duo OutKast. With rapping as a hobby, Mathis was a tight end and linebacker for his high school's football team and earned All-Region honors in his senior year.Steve Herndon, a former offensive lineman for the NFL teams Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos, played football with Mathis during high school, according to an interview with Down-South.com. In 2007, he moved from Atlanta to Tampa.
In American usage, bubba is a relationship nickname formed from brother and given to boys, especially eldest male siblings, to indicate their role in a family. For some boys and men, bubba is used so pervasively that it replaces the given name. The nickname may also be used outside the family by friends as a term of endearment.
Because of its association with the southern part of the United States, bubba is also often used outside the South as a pejorative to mean a person of low economic status and limited education. Bubba may also be taken to mean one who is a "good ol' boy." In the US Army and Marines, bubba can mean a lay soldier, similar to grunt but with connotations of endearment instead of derision (e.g., "Can you make that device easier to work with, 'cus every bubba is gonna have to use it.").
At times it may be used as a term of endearment (or in an insulting sense) for a person, especially a man, who is overweight or has a large body frame.[citation needed] In popular culture and prison slang, it is often joked that new male prisoners will be obliged to share a cell with a large, physically powerful inmate called Bubba who will become forcibly sexually intimate with them.
Bubba Sparxxx - Ms. New Booty (LIVE @ The State Theatre)
Bubba Sparxxx performs "Country Folks" at Whiskey Jam in Nashville
Bubba Sparxxx Live - Ugly
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - live at Southland Ballroom
Bubba Sparxxx at Rock of The Woods 2014: Deliverance
Bubba Sparxxx - Country Folks (Live)
Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly (Live) @Saddle Bags
Bubba Sparxx at Jazzbones
Bubba Sparxxx - Country Folks ft. Colt Ford & Danny Boone
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
The world is cold as a winter
And people gonna get up under your skin like a splinter
I got a whole lot of issues that are unresolved
I went 2 weeks without seeing nobody, just my dog
His name is Blao, he's the closest thing to a child
I may ever have, I'm selfish as hell, why lie
Too self absorbed of relationships, still I try
From time to time to find me one for my life
And my patterns are hard for a decent woman to
Respect or accept, so whores I keep em' comin through
In the bed with a babbling bitch that loves me
And she bad it's just some about it's ugly
After we finish, I hate when she try to touch me
It ain't her fault, that's just me
I slowly weigh down, but I ain't perfect though
Relapse is a record that I done heard before
And I'm no Marshall Mathers, I'm talking Andy Mathis
I'm talking deadly habits, it's so sad and tragic
The world is cold as a winter
And people gonna get up under your skin like a splinter
I know I'm a sinner
But all I can do is pray, god just take the pain away
Cause I'm cold as the winter
And life done got up under my skin like a splinter
I know I'm a winner
But all I can do is pray, don't let me lose my faith today
I tried my best to be so good to some folks
The same people showed me betrayal up close
The flip side of that coin is I've been negligent
With a lot of my real friends I never meant
To let a day turn into a month and then a year
Without speaking to you, I know that it appears
I just forgot about y'all but really in truth
I forgot about me too, this igloo
I built around myself it's so frigid
And it ain't melting away, I don't dig it
I know life is gone, I'm gon' miss it
It's like it never was here, if you don't live it
I think about the past and get so livid
What the fuck was you thinking, I don't get it
You so capable, personality magnetic
Life could have been so good if you had let it
The world is cold as a winter
And people gonna get up under your skin like a splinter
I know I'm a sinner
But all I can do is pray, god just take the pain away
Cause I'm cold as the winter
And life done got up under my skin like a splinter
I know I'm a winner
But all I can do is pray, don't let me lose my faith today
I may not be the shit to you but where I come from
Them people love Bub, therefor I must just
Stay faithful, the lord got his hands on me
And you don't hate me, you just don't understand, homie
There from humble beginnings I saw limitless
Possibility, fear was my only nemesis
Along the way I forfeited my innocence
But that is ok, thank you lord
For all the pain, the affliction
It's like a mirror in my face that I need to see
All my loss, my addiction
Showed me something that I really needed to know about me
It's like a shape to me, you're more than me
Killing this heart is controlling me
Though I'm out of control, you still order me
Folding me up inside your hands and the words don't come
The world is cold as a winter
And people gonna get up under your skin like a splinter
I know I'm a sinner
But all I can do is pray, god just take the pain away
Cause I'm cold as the winter
And life done got up under my skin like a splinter
I know I'm a winner
But all I can do is pray, let me make it through the day
Let me make it through the day