BigXthaPlug (real name Xavier Landum) was arrested early Friday (Aug. 22) in North Texas for marijuana and weapon possession.
According to Dallas County Jail records, the rapper was booked for possession of marijuana (less than two ounces) and unlawful possession of a firearm. The Dallas rapper was also arrested on marijuana charges in Arlington, Texas, in February.
Per an arrest affidavit viewed by FOX4, BigXthaPlug’s vehicle was pulled over for allegedly not having a front license plate. Officers reportedly found a pair of weapons in BigX’s truck and marijuana.
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Billboard has reached out to Dallas police and reps for BigXthaPlug for comment.
Thursday night (Aug. 21) was set to be a celebratory occasion for BigX, who released his country-trap album I Hope You’re Happy on Friday.
The Nashville experiment finds BigX tag-teaming with an array of country stars, including Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Shaboozey, Ink, Tucker Wetmore, Thomas Rhett, Ella Langley, Bailey Zimmerman and Darius Rucker.
The 27-year-old credited a Billboard interview at the top of 2025 with pushing him to complete a country-themed project after promising that he had a country project on the way, when that actually wasn’t the case at the time.
“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 … I wasn’t thinking properly, they had just made me cry in the middle of the interview … We come back and I’m kinda trying to change the narrative, ‘I got a country project on the way.’ After I was like, ‘Damn.’
He continued: “I said that and my team was like, ‘You know you gotta do it now, right?’ Days later, You got Jelly Roll saying [he wants in on the album] and we getting demo after demo from all these other artists.”
