Box Me Up

Album

I Hope You're Happy

Label

United Masters

Genre

Country rap

Composer(s)

Xavier Landum;Jason DeFord;Gregory Hein;James Gutch;Jordan Johnson;Stefan Johnson;Stavros Tsarouhas

Entered Chart

Sep 6, 2025

Peak Date

Sep 6, 2025

Released

August 22, 2025

"Box Me Up" is a collaboration between BigXthaPlug and country singer Jelly Roll, released as part of BigXthaPlug's third album, I Hope You're Happy. BigX has often described Jelly Roll as the "country version of himself," and when the two finally met face-to-face at Stagecoach - after months of phone calls and text banter - it seemed almost inevitable that their first song together would cut straight to the bone. The result is a gloomy meditation on failed love, when losing someone isn't just painful, it's equivalent to being buried alive. Jelly Roll takes the first swing with his chorus, crooning with his gravelly, melodic croon the chilling request to be "boxed up and buried alive" if love disappears. His bridge goes even darker, invoking mortality and the wish to be laid to rest alongside his partner, as though romance and the grave were part of the same package deal. BigXthaPlug spits lines about confusion and betrayal. He thought he followed "all the rules" for love, yet here he is, abandoned and replaying the scene over and over in his head. He likens himself to being "caged in the zoo," trapped in grief while slowly sinking into depression. Behind the boards, Box Me Up2 brought in an eclectic team of producers: Aldae (Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus), James Gutch (Demi Lovato, Leigh-Anne), the Monsters & Strangerz (Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber), and Stavros Tsarouhas. Songwriting credits went to them alongside BigX and Jelly Roll. Aldae already had history with Jelly Roll, having co-written his collab with Jessie Murph, "Wild Ones," in 2023, but this was fresh territory for everyone else involved. The music video, directed by Jerry Morka, makes the metaphor literal: BigX and Jelly Roll perform from inside a glass case draped in vines and flowers, as if heartbreak had been turned into a museum exhibit. Morka previously worked with BigX on "Mmhmm" and "All The Way" featuring Bailey Zimmerman. "Box Me Up" is one of eight country-leaning collaborations on I Hope You're Happy. Other guests include such Nashville stars as Luke Combs, Bailey Zimmerman, Ella Langley and Shaboozey, proof that BigX went all in once he got the idea. Amusingly, that idea didn't exist until BigX blurted it out mid-interview. "I go and do a Billboard interview and I straight up say, 'I got a country project on the way,'" he told the New York Times popcast. "And I never had a country project on the way... Afterward, my team was like, 'You know you gotta do it now, right?'" Within days, demos started flooding in. Jelly Roll said he wanted in, and suddenly the nonexistent album was very much real. Several other songs over the years have equated heartbreak with death, burial, or being trapped underground. A few notable examples: "I'd Rather Go Blind" by Etta James (1968) A soul classic where Etta doesn't talk about literal burial but equates losing her lover with a kind of living death: "I'd rather go blind, boy, than to see you walk away from me." "Without You" by Harry Nilsson (1971), also Mariah Carey (1994) Nilsson's heartbreaker makes the absence of a lover sound like death itself: "I can't live, if living is without you." "Buried Alive By Love" – HIM (2003) Finnish "love metal" at its most gothic. Ville Valo sings about passion so overwhelming it becomes suffocating - romance and literal burial intertwined.

If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight
Box me up and bury me alive

Ayy, if I lose you then I lose
I went by all the rules to keep your love, so I'm confused
But yet you left me high and dry, you loosened all my screws
My heart feel so abused, you dragged until I lost my muse
Now, I'm caged in the zoo thinkin' 'bout
What I didn't do, I tried to please you
I guess that wasn't enough because you still ended up leavin'
My pops said don't give up because it's out there, keep belivin'
But it feel like I'm dreamin', steady fightin' for your love
I'm startin' to feel like I been fiendin', gave up, didn't give a reason
I think that hurt the most because now I'm just stuck here thinkin'
The image of you leavin' in my head, it keep repeatin'
And now I'm slowly sinkin'
Not reachin' out for help, just slowly fallin' to the deep end

If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight

Box me up and bury me alive

Ayy, if I lose you, then I might just go insane
Like you might never be around, but it's your voice that's in my brain
I really gave you all my heart, you gave it back without even stayin'
But I remain to keep the love I had for you, it never changed
Stuck walkin' in the dark, can't miss the puddles from the rain
You pulled the stitches out my heart, you ever felt that kind of pain?
This time, I'll box it up because I'll never be the same
I'm rearranged and at this point, I'm losin' more than I can gain (than I can gain)

If we fall off the edge and we're no longer flesh
And the darkness comes too soon
Put a gun to my head and then lay me next to you
'Cause all I know is

If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight
Box me up and bury me alive

Box me up and bury me alive