The Dallas duo is energizing them with “Throwed Off,” their classic 2010 track that Lil Wayne remixed about walking around the club and not giving a fuck. They hit their dance moves in unison, and everyone is in their own zone. The raucous performance welcomes San Antonio rapper RNB.FOEMOB “Triple D style” to the city, who’s here as part of Club Vivo’s Industry Invasion Thursday night takeover.
FOEMOB is part of the performance, rapping “fuck everybody” with everyone else as we all get throwed off. He looks comfortable after spending the last hour posing for videos taken by fans, taking shots of liquor with his partners and pretend-boxing with his friend. He smiles often, showing off his grill. He looks ready to give his fans a show.Treal Lee & Prince Rick welcome RNB.FOEMOB to Dallas. “Texas” is an anthem 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/M6SWjfuIUb
— Eric Diep (@E_Diep) May 23, 2025
We’re here to do a heat check on FOEMOB to find out if his internet buzz has translated into real life. We want to answer the question that Instagram hip-hop accounts are wondering. Does FOEMOB have our new Texas anthem, and is he next to blow?
Released in March, FOEMOB’s “Texas” symbolizes the Texas sound, giving you a prideful glimpse of our home state through slabs and swingers. Produced by Drvmlord, an Atlanta producer, the song pulls from Houston’s slowed-down hip-hop that it is often associated with. Aesthetically, the artwork is a styrofoam cup full of codeine cough syrup with an ice cube shaped like the Texas state outline.
By May, the song had gone viral through Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, becoming a hit. The song’s music video has over 2 million views, and he’s kept it trending through an open verse challenge that had Houston rappers like Lil Keke, King Kyle Lee, E.S.G. and Hugo Boss hop on it. It also doesn’t hurt that during the 2025 NBA Playoffs, “Texas” played during Game 7 of the Golden State Warriors vs. Houston Rockets before a commercial break, drawing in casual listeners.
The independent rapper's momentum has gotten Houston legends, local rappers and the music industry at large behind him. He’s got an official remix out featuring Lil Keke and Paul Wall, as well as a Swishahouse remix by DJ Michael Watts. Lil Wayne once rapped, “You ain't shit if you ain't screwed up,” which means FOEMOB is clearly the shit because “Texas” is a hot record that got chopped up, not slopped up by The Chopstars.
FOEMOB has been promoting “Texas” with a tour across the entire state, performing in small cities from Laredo and Victoria to bigger ones like San Antonio, Fort Worth and here in Dallas. It’s a grassroots approach to gaining supporters and meeting his fans in person.
FOEMOB, a former football linebacker, didn’t always have a deep voice. “My voice used to be high as well,” he said during his Off the Porch interview. “Like, hella squeaky. I’d always think about it from the time I was nine. I didn’t like how my voice was high, so I’d always try to make my voice lower. I would smoke a lot of shit and eventually, it just stuck. Now, my shit is just deep.”
For the "Texas" video, FOEMOB had a vision. He wanted to bring his song to life by incorporating every major city in Texas while shining a light on where he’s from. Directed by DGreenFilmz, one of the opening shots is a sky view of the Dallas cityscape with the Reunion Tower front and center.
After That Mexican OT and Peso Peso make a cameo, then he pays homage to Houston car culture by riding around in a slab with the rims poking out, making him seen and heard through a trunk-rattling sound system. “Bitch, I’m from Texas where Mexicans and Blacks stand together,” he raps in front of a mural of the late Big Pokey, an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click, a collective of rappers and friends who guested on his mixtapes.
In another shot, he’s eating at Hoffman’s Steakhouse, a family restaurant that’s been serving San Antonians since 1972, before cutting to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas with a waving Texas flag in the sky. While posted up at Exotic Pop It Don't Stop in Houston, Sauce Walka shows face, adding to the list of appearances that include E.S.G., King Kyle Lee and Southside Hoodlum. It’s a Texas affair, following in the tradition of rap videos that transported you to Houston, San Antonio and Dallas, the distinct culture of each on display.
While FOEMOB isn’t trying to revive the Dallas Boogie movement or collaborate with New Dallas rappers (yet), he’s introducing Texas hip-hop in a rap conversation that often skews towards the East and West Coast. His potential can be traced back to his earlier songs like “Shot Me Down,” “Classroom Freestyle” and “Water,” which have drawn comparisons to Memphis rhymers Young Dolph and Key Glock through effortless bars and a thick voice over hard-hitting drums.
FOEMOB showed signs of his potential during his Club Vivo performance. It was a tight 20 minutes, rapping his songs word for word and testing out his setlist. He did “Gorilla Walk,” “Pressure” and “Body Dropper,” the latter of which will get the trap houses jumpin’. The true eye test was how the crowd reacted to “Texas.”
As soon as the beat hit, people pulled their phones out. A few girls were screaming. Most people just came to party, and a lot of them didn’t know the lyrics, but you could feel the energy shift as it does when an artist saves their hits for last. Everybody put their horns up as FOEMOB performed “Texas,” connecting with Dallasites through our mutual respect for our state. It was a fitting ending to play BigXThaPlug’s country rap song, also by the name of “Texas,” after FOEMOB concluded his time, showing him the possibilities of how high his heights could be when one song takes off.
Recently, That Mexican OT offered constructive criticism to FOEMOB on The Flawless Podcast, which resonated. “I hope he eventually feels comfortable enough to start trying new shit,” he said. “Because I will tell you that one thing can only get you so far. You don’t want to listen to one song and have heard them all just after that one song. I think he can do it, I think he can switch shit up. I think he’s creative enough and I think he can spiritually have fun with it as if it was his Recess.”
FOEMOB responded on his Instagram Stories after fans thought OT was disrespecting him. “That Mexican OT ain’t talking shit towards me and ain’t speaking down on me at all. Y’all be so quick to get in y'all feelings and assume sumn [sic] it's crazy.”
OT does have a point, though. FOEMOB has the current Texas anthem right now, but it has been done before. Before we make any quick judgments on FOEMOB’s career, which is just getting started, one thing is for certain: people have kept streaming “Texas,” and he’s unifying Texans at every tour stop. It's enough to at least catch him live as he continues working his single.
You never know. We may be witnessing the rise of the Texas-bred underground.
