Bubba Sparxxx

In late 2003, he returned with his commercially unsuccessful sophomore album, Deliverance. Record was the group's primary songwriter, though he frequently collaborated with others, such as Barbara Acklin. The major-label version of Dark Days, Bright Nights, which now included five collaborations with Timbaland and two with Organized Noise, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Music Charts. They were led by Eugene Record and scored eleven Top Ten R&B hits in the early part of the decade. He signed to Interscope after a bidding war and began working with record producers Timbaland and Organized Noize. The Chi-Lites were a Chicago-based smooth soul band from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period to not come from Memphis or Philadelphia. A subsequent release saw some success in Georgia, and the album Dark Days, Bright Nights caught the attention of Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records.

He began recording with Lil Devil in a group called One Card Shi in 1996, but the partnership did not last. A native of LaGrange, Georgia, a young Andy Mathis was introduced to hip hop by a neighbor (his closest at a half mile away) who received mixed tapes mailed from New York City. Sparxxx is most notable for his 2001 hit single "Ugly", and for being, like Eminem, one of the few Caucasian rappers to find commercial success. Bubba Sparxxx (born Warren Anderson Mathis March 6, 1977) is an American rapper.