That Mexican OT

That Mexican OT Biography by David Crone Fiercely Texan trapper That Mexican OT exploded into the game with bold lyricism and a relentless flow, quickly establishing himself as one of his region's rising stars in the early 2020s. His headstrong style and technical gifts ensured that early singles like "Hardest Ese Ever" and "Johnny Dang" became underground hits, racking up tens of millions of streams apiece. Nonsense and Mexican Shit With early influences varying from Big L to George Strait, Bay City-born Virgil Gazca demonstrated raw rap proficiency from his earliest days, impressing his father and his friends by breezily out-rapping them throughout his childhood years. Adopting the alias of That Mexican OT (the OT stands for "Outta Texas") in dual homage to his Texan and Mexican roots, he began recording over beats online after graduating high school in Austin, debuting in 2020 with the distinctly Texan “Southside Stepping.” A fiery blend of relentless machine-gun flows, stalwart lyricism, and thumping 808-led production soon made Gazca "one to watch" on the Texas rap scene, and his style was quickly consolidated on 2020’s South Texas Project, a 13-track tape that put his larger-than-life personality on the global stage. A continual string of new releases saw the young MC continue to hone his singular style: 2021 mixtapes Southside Steppin and 1 Double 0 kept fans fed with a barrage of heavy-hitting anthems, a remix of Peso Peso’s “Hardest Ese Ever” became the rapper’s first major hit, and his 2022 album Nonsense and Mexican Shit upped the production values with a more cinematic take on his signature sound. After issuing Nonsense and Mexican Shit’s ChopNotSlop Remix LP with OG Ron C, the rapper moved into 2023 with The Show Must Go On, a nine-track collaboration with Saxkboy KD. Now regularly racking up multi-million view counts with each new single, OT used his momentum to enlist Paul Wall for “Johnny Dang,” a defiantly Texan tribute to the titular jeweler that soon became the rapper’s biggest hit yet.