Bubba Sparxxx
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
He had the whole world yelling “New South” and led the search for “Ms. New Booty,” but before he was Bubba Sparxxx, he was just Warren Mathis in the mud of Troup County, Georgia.
Danielle hangs out with the Y2K rap sensation to hear stories from the football field, a passion that almost took him in a completely different direction.
Bubba also reveals details from the “Ugly” music video that took MTV by storm and opens up about his ongoing struggles with addiction (and how he’s made it his mission to now help others in the same predicament).
Plus, we get Bubba’s opinion on the new wave of country/hip hop artists like Jelly Roll and Post Malone, a road he helped pave, on this week’s Teen Beat!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.3 | Give me money for cigarettes. |
| 0:14.9 | I'll never leave your filthy bed. |
| 0:19.8 | I stay in the night and one night weekend to what a three years, the kids are not all right, |
| 0:26.6 | but that's okay because no one here is Teen Beat. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello, and welcome to another installment of Teen Beat. |
| 0:35.8 | I am your host, Danielle Fischel, continuing to talk to interesting people who do interesting |
| 0:41.2 | things all about how their teenage years shaped who they are today. |
| 0:46.2 | Remember getting your ears pierced at Clare's, picking up some Z. Cavaricies from Marygo |
| 0:51.0 | Round, or just hoping it's Pizza Day at the cafeteria? |
| 0:54.9 | Oh, I love Pizza Day. |
| 0:56.2 | Me too. |
| 0:57.1 | Still, I love Pizza Day. |
| 0:58.7 | And since my childhood, even the awkward parts were blasted onto millions of TV sets worldwide, |
| 1:05.6 | it's time I turn the tables and find out what other celebrities were like at the most |
| 1:10.0 | vulnerable time of their lives. |
| 1:12.4 | I look at it this way. I gave you my childhood. It's time we hear yours. And this week, I'm chatting |
| 1:18.9 | with a legend of the South. He rose to attention in a mud pit, starring in one of the most |
| 1:24.7 | exciting debut music videos of all time for his 2001 hit single, Ugly, |
| 1:30.9 | a track that not only pushed him front and center into the world of hip hop, but helped further |
| 1:36.2 | change the face of the genre forever. His local Troop County, Georgia Buzz, led him to super |
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