Big Smo is looking to make a big statement with his new album, Special Reserve. The country rapper has always drawn on his real life to create his music, and he dives right in with "Country Outlaw," ...

Country rap musician Big Smo will hold a meet-and-greet event in Battle Creek this week following the release of his new album, "We The People." Smo will sign autographs and meet with fans from 5:30 ...

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It has been less than a year since Big Smo released his latest album, “We the People,” but the Tennessee-based artist is already in manager Dan Nelson’s Nashville studio working on new music. The ...

Smorgasburg. That’s one way to sum up Big Smo — and a good theory on how got his name — considering the musician takes from country, hip-hop, rock and pop. “I’m influenced by so many genres of music, ...

The microgenre that is country rap has a resurgence in popularity every so often — remember Bubba Sparxxx? Cowboy Troy? It usually gains a bit of media attention, makes some rap fans say, “Hey, ...

Twelve years after releasing his first album, the man known as Big Smo has become a superstar. He mashes country and rap into what the mammoth Tennessee native affectionately calls hick-hop. After ...

After Big Smo arrived onstage at Brighton Music Hall on Friday night, he informed the room that he’d prepared for the occasion. “What up,” he said. “I had to take a speech class to be able to say ...

Big Smo's new video for "Country Outlaw" takes no prisoners, literally. The primal, tribal country and hip-hop mixer finds the native Tennessean brandishing makeshift, medieval weapons and war paint.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT John Smith, aka Big Smo, is a country music star on the cusp of the Next Big Country Thing: Hip-hop/country fusion. On the eve of the release of his first major label (Warner) album, ...

Big Smo isn’t so big these days. The Tennessee country rapper has shed 85 pounds and has turned his life around since having quadruple bypass surgery a year ago. He no longer drinks, smokes or gets ...

A&E has commissioned a new original series. The network has begun production on a new series with the working title Big Smo, with production beginning immediately on ten half-hour episodes set in ...