Name: Bubba Sparxxx | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #415
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Bubba Sparxxx | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #415

we got new merch some new colorways uh in the be good to yourself collection we've
got hoodies in
plum and moss we've also got t-shirts in lilac moss and blue mist i hope you
enjoy those those
are good colors get that hitter and more at theo von store.com i want to let
you know that we have
some new tour dates to announce january 11th and 12th in grand junction colorado
we've added a new
show there january 13th pueblo pueblo colorado january 14th denver we have two
shows there
january 15th down in fort collin colorado we are excited to be at the fort and
march 1st 3rd
and 4th in boston massachusetts and march 2nd in medford massachusetts those
are all available at
theovan.com slash t-o-u-r and that will be the return of the rat tour today's
guest has been a
fixture um in the uh rap and hip-hop community um he was a part of a lot of our
adolescence and young
adulthood um he's he's a new friend and i'm grateful to spend time with him uh
and hear hear about his
journey as a entertainer and as a human uh today's guest is mr bubba sparks
baby what's up stayin alive man stayin alive stayin alive pleasantly present
yeah trying to be that's a big thing is trying to stay present for me i get so
caught up sometimes
in thinking about everything that i need to do or are things i haven't done and
i will get
what's that they always say you probably heard it some of the same places that
we've been
uh if you got one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday you're pissing and
shitting all over
the day yeah yeah man i got i got a few sayings for you yeah i bet we probably
have a lot of the
same so you because you and i kind of connected over like talking about sobriety
and stuff right
right you know um can you move this mic just over oh no no you don't have to
move but you could move
just whatever as long as it's near your beak yeah there we go and yeah feel
free to move it or whatever
i'm not sure what to do with my hands you just do whatever i'm just there's no
real way to you
know what you're doing okay i was doing ricky bobby oh oh yeah so how's what's
that been like in your
life man man it's just been a back and forth journey you know what i'm saying i
mean it's just been
you know i've i've had some periods of of recovery you know i'm saying that i've
had some periods of
sobriety you know i'm saying that weren't necessarily like filled with great
recovery you
know what i'm saying there's a difference as you know you know i'm saying
sometimes i was just kind
of white knuckling it you know and sometimes and then sometimes i'm kind of
just either on the way to
to you know things getting bad or like on the way to things back getting good
you know what i'm saying
at what point is like the that that turned forward you know i'm saying so to
speak on the racetrack you
know yeah but you know i just um i went to treatment back in in uh february you
know and it was it was
good but i wouldn't claim to be sober right now was it a 30 was it what what is
it like i mean i did 35
days of inpatient you know i'm saying it was kind of weird because all the
coveted protocols so like
you know how normally when you go to treatment you can like um get to go to
outside meetings and all
that stuff you can find a sponsor that way and all that stuff we were literally
like stuck in this
one whole this house like for it was cold months so it was like kind of it was
a good deal to be
stuck inside but man it got kind of stir crazy in the joint for sure and was it
all men in there
no there was some women but they had like a different little house that they
actually would
sleep in and they had to go there like after eight o'clock they had to go get
in their house and
but i ain't gonna say i heard tell of some some intermingling after hours you
know what i'm saying but
yeah but uh yeah i definitely wasn't on that that type of vibe i have you know
in other trips to
treatment i've kind of you know been all about the female um patients oh yeah
they get some real yeah
especially man if i'm coming off of pills i want to pet something you know man
well it's just anytime
you know you we feel that hole that internal hole external anything you know
what i'm saying and so
it's like man if you take away what i what my primary like tool i was using to
try to fill that hole even
though it was just ultimately making the hole bigger but if you just if you
take that whatever thing i was
using i might have to find something else it might be cheeseburgers yeah i'm
saying it might be gambling
might be women you know might be me and whatever yeah damn bro i know i haven't
been there yet yeah
me either dude you hit me with the wrong eight ball i'll i might meet some
young fella bro i ain't
meeting no old dude though that's up man i just i don't know i just never had
that inclination if i
would if i was gay i would just be gay you know what i'm saying it wouldn't
really i mean i can't say that
growing up it might not have been like uh kind of a tormenting type thing yeah
in the rural south you
know oh yeah you had to be a real secret gay back then but to be honest with
you like being a a white
rapper from lagrange georgia you know saying it was it was some of the same
type of like you know uh
i won't say oppression but just ridicule that you faced you know i never even
thought about that yeah
yeah i guess people yeah people probably really would like think you're trying
to blacken up or
something like that well it's kind of like not really accepted by either side
you know saying
because where i grew up lagrange georgia shout out to trap county but um it's
pretty much 50 black 50
white you know what i'm saying and and so yeah definitely the white side wasn't
really too you know
saying like open-minded to the prospect of me being a rapper at that time but
you know the hood side the
black folks really wasn't too receptive either it's not like they were just
waiting well you know with
open arms as far as that like come be a rapper over here because well you were
early into i mean you
were like i mean you were dang you were like the dang uh neil armstrong out
there you was like one of
the first man on the moon yeah yeah he was like one of the first wiggas on the
moon kind of in a way
you know no i mean as far as like a you know a country boy from the south you
know or did they have
that i don't know they didn't have it no and that's and that's been part of the
journey like is there
was no reference point you know what i'm saying like i grew up off like outcast
i was heavily
influenced by outcast goody mob the organized noise the dungeon family so that
was the closest
thing because they were the first people to kind of like rep georgia you know
what i'm saying period
specifically atlanta but for me i was i was brought up in the country about 60
miles down the road from
atlanta and so yeah there was and just being a white boy or whatever there was
definitely nobody
for me to look at even though i did learn from a lot of other white rappers
that were successful
starting with the beastie boys you know going on to like everlast house of pain
even third base to some
degree um but then eminem you know i'm saying it was right eminem was about a
year before me you know
what i'm saying and when he came i was like that's perfection right there the
way that was executed
so like but i but i knew you know shout out to vanilla ice um he's actually my
dog like i've
done shows with him and we've we've had a ball but he's a cool cat i've met him
a few times yeah he's
a good dude man you know but at that time there was like after his ice ice baby
rain kind of like
when he sold like 15 million albums but you can't take everybody was listening
everybody was jamming
ice ice baby i don't care what nobody says now oh even vietnamese were like you
know ice ice baby
you know man everybody had it hey you know projects albums don't sell 15
million singles don't sell 30
million or whatever it's sold without everybody liking it you know dude
everybody like that everybody
got the big pants when you really hit when you affect people's you know when
you go through their
ears and come out their clothing i mean i remember so many white boys now i
wasn't quite old enough to
attempt a stunt like this but i remember white boys getting even like the
little haircut that he had and
shit like and it was just like dang man you were so cool you got a vanilla ice
haircut you know what
i'm saying but that wasn't really something i was on but just to keep going
there was some kind of
discrepancies uh with his story about where he was from and what he was
representing as far as being a
hood kid or whatever and so after that i kind of just learned it was like a lull
it was like a five or
six year period where there was nobody was checking for white rappers you know
what i'm saying but i i knew like
you just got to represent who you are you know i'm saying like everything that's
in in the spirit
of hip-hop and where hip-hop comes from and like the principles you know the
guiding principles are
based on like you know just truly truly accurately honestly represent who you
are where you come from
and what it was like there and tell your story honestly you know what i'm
saying and and that's
that's gonna work you know i'm saying if you do it and you figure out a way to
make it dope and so i
i had developed that within myself because like my first raps i ever wrote like
in 1992 like at
my mom's kitchen table in the ninth grade where like was just rolling in the
benzo letting the
bass drop when five motherfuckers roll by on a drop top like you know talking
about like boys in the
hood like because i didn't know how to and that was part of the what you're
talking about like the whole
journey of me trying to figure out how within using hip-hop is the is the
outlet expressing who i was
and where i came from you know growing up on a farm you know saying in the
grain yeah farm but some of
the animals got gold chains on yeah i just i never cared about music music was
all around me i had
an older brother that loved like metal bands like iron maiden big shout out to
russ iron maiden's his
favorite band all-time band so he was into that type of music then i had my
oldest brother jay shout
out to jay he liked like uh parliament funk camelot you know it was in george
yeah yeah p-funk and then my
dad likes like throwback country you know traditional country and my mama just
likes to dance you know
what i'm saying so music was all around but it just didn't speak to me you know
i'm saying i didn't
care about it it was just something in the background but when i heard them
somebody say hey we want some
put when i heard that i was like what is that yeah then when i heard boys in
the hood when i heard too
short i was like what the is this you know you had maybe you didn't even know
you had that man it
just spoke i knew it was good when i heard uh brass monkey by the beastie boys
oh yeah i heard it and
it was just like man this is gonna be a part of my life forever i just feel it
it just speaks to me
like i don't know the raw expression the 808 drum like man it was a lot to do
with that 808 honestly man
like for real because that wasn't really a part the boom bap was kind of like
like the new york wave of
hip-hop but when the west coast finally got his turn it was like too short in w.a.
like that 808 drum was
rattling you know what i'm saying so dude i remember yeah when some of that
came through our neighborhood
because i probably grew up i didn't grow up country i just grew up in like a
rural kind of white area
right because louisiana doesn't get like a redneck vibe louisiana is just it's
a lot of like well
grandchildren like pirates like further south you got cajun people you got a
lot of mix kind of like a lot
of yellow skin kind of like light skinned black dudes you got some kind of like
creole type yeah you got
some people just fucking you don't know what color they are bruh right they don't
even know
no loui