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Adam Calhoun

AKA: Adam Bradley Calhoun

Adam Bradley Calhoun is an American musician, songwriter, and influencer from New Lenox, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, Illinois.

Calhoun started on the internet as an influencer, but while he would still have his influencer status in the right-wing political community, even after meeting President Donald Trump in 2023, he would also have huge credit in the country rap community, with his biggest song to date being “Die Tonight” with country rap icon Ryan Upchurch. So far, he has released 13 albums with 6 of them being collaboration projects with Chris Hosier (Under only his last name, Calhoun), Upchurch, 2 projects with Struggle Jennings, and 2 projects with Tom Macdonald. It is also important to mention that while 12 of Calhoun’s albums are hip-hop, his 13th album is a country music album, which features country singer songwriter Bryan Martin. He has released only one EP, 2019’s “Crazy White Boy” with Country Rap artist Demun Jones, from the band Rehab.

In October of 2024, Calhoun announced that he, Jones, and Calhoun’s protégé rapper John Brodnax would be recording in Nashville, TN, on a Country rap project for all artists within the Country Rap genre to unite, and later that December, Calhoun was able to garner around 100 artists from his open invitation to record tracks for the project. A few of the notable names who showed up to Calhoun’s project included SMO, Struggle Jennings, JJ Lawhorn, Rehab frontman Danny Boone, Dusty Leigh, 501 Bryze, and Shocka Hustlemane. It was even rumored that Jelly Roll had made an appearance and might have recorded his first rap verse after years of pausing from rap. It is unclear on when the project is set to release, if ever. Calhoun stated on Instagram that it would release around early 2025, although the album still remains unreleased to this day, which has begun to spark many controversy in the country rap community as to what really happened in December 2024, with some of the criticism coming from Calhoun’s former friend and ex-collaborator Ryan Upchurch.