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," ...

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.

LAKELAND — While the twang and toe-tappin’ of down-on-your-luck, hard-livin’ and living paycheck to paycheckcountry tunes are still popular, the surging popularity of hip-hop and rap have begun to ...

Big Smo likes to tell this story. It’s funny and a little embarrassing, but it also sums up where he is in life (and music) in 2025. After a recent concert (in this case, “recent” means with the last ...

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 ...

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, ...