Following the release of his latest album, Better Over Time, BigXthaPlug is reflecting on how success has changed his life and some of the pressure he feels when it comes to providing for his family.
In an appearance on the Breakfast Club, the 28-year-old Texan rapper was asked about the first time he realized he couldn’t do everything for everyone. “Just sitting back realizing, like, just me being the situation that I am within myself and just seeing people still asking,” he shared, as seen in the video above. “Everybody’s life is going to keep going. It’s just like when you in jail. You in jail, but everybody else life still going. … Life is going to keep going.”
He was also asked about his recent announcement that he’s investing in an 150-acre family compound, which he previously spoke about in an episode of Club Shay Shay. “I got the house, I just bought the land to start the compound,” he said.”Every woman in my life stay in it. My mama, my granny, my sisters… But now, it’s like, I’m getting them calls from my auntie, my cousins on both sides. … But as much pressure that I feel like it’ll put on me, it’ll take off a lot, too. Because instead of paying the mortgage, I’m already doing everything. So, we ain’t really got to worry about those calls.”
He also shared that he finds “peace” from being around friends from before he got famous for his music. “That’s why you going to see my same friends from before I was rapping,” he said. “You going to see just everything that I indulge. It’s always the same as before I was rapping, because that’s what make me feel, I guess, more comfortable… I never have no more new friends. I don’t even have friends no more. Anybody that you see around me, I don’t call them my friend. You either my brother or you my sister, you know what I’m saying? Now it’s family.”
Watch the full clip from the interview above.
