Meet Shotgun Shane | Country Rapper

We had the good fortune of connecting with Shotgun Shane and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Shotgun, where are your from? We’d love to hear about how your background has played a role in who you are today?
I’m from East Tennessee, born and raised in Morristown, Tn, spent alot of summers in Sneedville Tennessee, Where everything is country and we have the smokey mountains, lots of trails, and good fishing! My background and upbringing played a huge role in my music. I remember my younger years trying to just rap about things that I didn’t have no reason at all rappin about, and I had family friends tell me that I should incorporate the country livin aspect in my lyrics, and once I started doing that, BAM! I finally had something. I was rasied up where you learned how to drive a stick in an old Square Body going down some old backroad in the country. That was what sent my career up, I started making Redneck Remixes and releasing them on YouTube back in the day and they started to catch on, then Instead of doing the Redneck Remixes, I started to make my own content and released my biggest song still to this day that is called, “Square Body”. That song changed me and my family’s life forever I think, it’s still one of the biggest ‘truck songs’ out there!

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
I make music, I don’t just make one genre type of music either, but I am more known for my “Country Rap” records. I am super proud of what my song called “Square Body” has accomplished. It’s still the most popular song of mine to this date! The road to get to where I am today wasn’t easy, there’s been plenty ups and downs. I remember back in 2014, I’m still working graveyard shifts at a place called ‘RPN’ just wishing that i could make music for a living and go do shows and festivals, I remember going in at 11 and getting off at 7, and staying up studying music! What to do. I then, started making Redneck Remixes of popular songs at the time but with a country twist, and they started to gain traction on YouTube and Soundcloud.

So many lessons have been learned while getting noticed and hitting charts in the music business, not everybody is your friend, and not everybody cares about you, if there ain’t money to be made. I would say that’s one of the biggest lessons I have learned in the music game. People will use you and they don’t care if you fall off or need a mental break.

Also, drugs are bad! I’ve been through that aspect in life as well and let me tell you, if you haven’t ever tried them, please DON’T!
I overcame a. few addictions myself, and I am now 3 years and 4 months clean as of this interview and I will never ever go back to that lifestyle.
Being in the music scene, drugs are easy to get ahold of, but just watch who you keep in your circle and who you associate with. That’s definitely a GOLDEN RULE to keep in mind if you ask me!

I won’t go in too much detail on all of that, maybe later on we can sit down and talk on a PODCAST in person and go over those things.

I would love for the world to know that I never gave up and never plan to give up on my dreams. Alot of people think just because you got millions of streams on records that it just happened overnight, and that’s simply just not the case. It takes time. You just have to stick with it and not give up! Be a leader not a follower. I live by that!

I have release alot of albums over the years, my most selling one is called “The Reload 2.0” and right behind that is “America’s Hero”, and then there’s “Redneck Hero”. Also, dropped a huge compilation for new fans that want to get caught up on my music, and it’s called “Country Rap Hits”, just search for that album and go dive into my music and it will get you caught up to what my sound is!

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would definitely take them to ROYAL BLUE!! Just look up Ride Royal Blue in East Tennessee, it is amazing! We would rent some SXS’s and hit trails for hours, ride up to the exit and east some good Mexican Food, and go right back to hitting those 100,000 acres baby! I mean, we could all literally go ride for hours and still not hit the same trails twice! That’s how huge that place is. There’s also, Brimstone, and Tackett Creek round’ here! All of those places are fun to go chill and hang with your buddies and go trail riding. Definitely my favorite thing to do as well as my favorite place to go when I feel like I have writers block!

They have all kinds of places you ride those trails to, to visit. It’s just all around fun man!

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
BlackFly Music deserves a huge shoutout from me, Charlie P believed in me before anybody else did! He came up to meet me in Knoxville, Tn, and the rest is history! So I defintiely owe Charlie P a huge shoutout for that! I mean, he gave a kid from a small town a chance to do this thing! He also has worked with 50 Cent and helped run G-Unit back in the day, and he still manages Young Buck and Bubba Sparxxx and plenty other notable artists in the game. He was also one of the first to believe in Jelly Roll and we all have watched Jelly’s major success in the past few years, by the way shoutout to Jelly Roll as well, because he gave me alot of opportunities to open up for him and it definitely helped me out! But yeah, BlackFly Music definitely gave me that push to get noticed! So Thanks Charlie P!

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