Springfield

That Mexican OT Live in Concert Springfield, Missouri  Expo Center.


May 4th 2025 


Doors Open at 8pm 










BP: That Mexican OT is making sure Texas has a seat secured at the rap table. The Bay City,
Texas rapper has burst onto the scene with his unique mix of exuberant, confidence-filled bars
and the truck-rattling sensibilities of prime southern rap, mixed with the experimentation of DJ
Screw’s signature sludgy chopped-n-screwed sound. He flaunts a sound that plays just as well
globally as it does at the parking lot kickback. The Tejano rapper rose to fame off his legendary
linkup with Houston royalty Paul Wall on “Johnny Dang” (300 Million+ Streams), which
Pitchfork honored as one of the best 100 songs of 2023. He parlayed that success into his
breakout mixtape Lonestar Luchador, which was heralded by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork,
HipHopDX, The Houston Chronicle, Passion Of The Weiss, and more. Notching tens of
Millions of streams on hits such as “Hardest Ese Ever,” “Cowboy Killer,” and “Hit List” solidified
him as one of the most exciting southern rappers on the come up. With his latest album, Texas
Technician, That Mexican OT delivers on the fun and raucous sound that made him, while also
showing off a meticulous desire to expand his range.


Born in Bay City, Texas, Virgil René Gazca learned quickly that he would have to make
something of himself to get through his difficult upbringing. Gazca was always drawn to music,
listening to a mix of the in-your-face classic rock of AC/DC, the pulsating nu-metal of Slipknot,
and the vivacious southern parking lot pimping music of Slim Thug, Lil Keke, Sauce Walka,
and the rappers who ushered in the mid-00s Southern rap takeover. He always gravitated
towards music, but after losing his mother early in life, and dealing with his dad being in and out
of jail, Gazca faced a crossroads in seventh grade as he pondered how to change his
circumstances. “Being a rapper is damn near impossible,” Gazca says. “With the luck that I got,
I know I'm not making. What am I going to do in life? I couldn't see myself doing anything else,
so it just had to happen.”

With that realization, Gazca got to work, spending as much time in his uncle’s makeshift studio
as possible and entering into rap battles around the city. But issues with self-esteem pushed him
off the path in a bad way. Scared of repeating the mistakes of his other family members, Gazca
re-dedicated himself to his craft around junior year of high school, continuing to hone his
rapping with his uncle and his cousins. After locking in and releasing his first project, Southern
Texas Project, in 2020, Gazca got the attention of Greg Gates, who offered to manage him.
Gates changed Gazca’s life, pushing him to learn to make songs, rather than focus purely on
rapping.

“La Muerte'' was the lightbulb moment for Gazca, a rapid tempo, Mexican guitar-influenced
banger that acted as a template to the charismatic trunk rattlers Gazca would go on to make.
From there, Gazca stayed in the studio, dropping projects and songs at a furious pace such as
2021’s 1 Double O and 2022’s Nonsense and Mexican Shit. But 2023 would be the year
everything fell into place, starting with his breakout track “Johnny Dang,” which saw the Tejano
rapper link up with Texas staple Drodi and the “Sittin Sidewayz'' legend Paul Wall for a melding
of Texas’ storied past and bright future. The track served as a perfect primer to his album,
Lonestar Luchador, which meshed his love of wrestling, comedy and hard-hitting bars into a
raucous album that showcases his limitless ambition and knack for worldbuilding.
In 2024, he continued that momentum, being named to the newest XXL Freshman class and
finding success with his follow up project, Texas Technician. The new project forgoes the
conceptual approach of Lonestar Luchador in favor of paying homage to the state and sound
that made him. Linking with fellow Texas titans such as Z-Ro, Paul Wall, Slim Thug and Le$,
while also finding contemporaries to match his energy such as DaBaby, Fredo Bang and
MoneyBagg Yo, Texas Technician is a coming-of-age story best heard on the biggest
subwoofers in the parking lot. “I like when people hand out CDs in the back of the slab,” Gazca
says. “You see that trunk and it's glowing with the lights and the speakers, and bumping their
music. That’s the feeling I wanted to bring to this tape, it just falls back to me loving the hustle
and the grind of being a Texas Technician.”

Tracks such as the eerie, Screw-influenced flex fest with MoneyBagg Yo “Twisting Fingers,”
show off That Mexican OT’s natural ability to bring his features into his world, sounding like a
late night, dirt road rager in Texas. While more introspective tracks such as the heartfelt
“Muchos Gracias” reveals his somber side, remembering everyone who helped him get to this
point. Texas Technician shows all sides of Virgil Rene Gazca, the man inside, and the outlaw,
slick-tongued persona of That Mexican OT.

With his Texas Technician tour in full swing, new singles like the Denzel Curry vivacious team
up “Black Flag Freestyle,” and a new project he says has some of his most eclectic music to
date, That Mexican OT has all the support and momentum to ascend to Southern rap royalty,
and position himself as a new leader for Texas rap, and beyond.








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