Country rapper Justin Champagne, the viral sensation who makes genre-bending music rooted in the sounds, stories, and swampy swagger of his home turf of South Louisiana, kicked off a stint of tour dates with superstar Snoop Dogg.
“I’m The One,” Latin remix featuring El Taiger, released on Friday, that boasts a swaggy electronic beat infused in the track with the pre-existing organic rock and country guitars, has received support from both Spotify and Apple. It has landed on Spotify’s Wild Country and Country Latino and Apple’s New In Country and The Crossroads playlists.
Champagne’s sultry break-up anthem “Refill,” was released on Friday and will be featured on the “If She Ain’t Country” EP releasing on May 6.
The singer has garnered over 50 million streams on Spotify and 41 million views on YouTube.
Born and raised in south Louisiana, Champagne makes genre-bending music rooted in the sounds, stories, and swampy swagger of his home turf. It’s a soundtrack for Louisiana’s small towns and muddy backroads — a gumbo of hip-hop, country, hook-heavy pop, and hard rock, glued together by a hometown hero who raps and sings not only about his own experience, but also about the country lifestyles of his neighbors in the Deep South and beyond.
Champagne will be releasing plenty of new music over the coming month. His newest release, the vibey and sure to make you dance “I’m The One,” Latin remix featuring El Taiger was released on April 15, days before Champagne hits the road with Snoop Dogg on his Dogg Day of Blaze Tour, bringing a whole new fan base to the country genre.
Everything changed in 2016, when Champagne wrote “Sun Goes Down.” A breakup anthem filled with hip-hop beats, countrified guitar riffs, soaring vocal hooks, and rhythmic rapping, “Sun Goes Down” was the first song to embrace the full range of his musical tastes. By combining a variety of different sounds together, he created something new: a boundary-breaking genre that showcased not only the depth of his influences, but also his versatility as a songwriter, storyteller, vocalist, and rapper. Unsurprisingly, the song became a hit, earning more than a million listens on Spotify and laying the foundation for a unique, trendsetting career.
Champagne’s full-length debut, “Small Town Sentiments,” was released in 2018. Tracks like “Beers” and “In Them Jeans” became fan favorites, introducing a growing audience to his sound. Things accelerated once again in 2019, when Justin teamed up with hip-hop artist Gabe G to record the wildly-popular “BackRoads.” A tribute to rural living and the great outdoors, “BackRoads” earned him a dedicated following not only on Spotify, but also on YouTube, where the song’s music video — shot in the mud bogs, fields, lakes, and country lanes of his home state — amassed 5 million views during its first year. The song was an anthem for small-town residents across America, but it was personal, too, grounded in the experience of a musician who has always preferred country roads to city streets.
