Bubba Sparxxx

Bubba Sparxxx (born Warren Anderson Mathis, in tiny Lagrange, GA) is the Ronnie Van Zant of rap. Like the scrappy late singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mathis brings his background as a white, working-class Southern man into a popular new arena -- in his case, hip-hop. Some critics initially dismissed Mathis' rural, country-tinged rap, just as some had scorned Skynyrd's gritty mix of blues, country, and ...