Bubba Sparxxx

Still, I love pizza day.

And since my childhood, even the awkward parts were blasted onto millions of TV sets worldwide, it's time I turn the tables and find out what other celebrities were like at the most vulnerable time of their lives.

I look at it this way.

I gave you my childhood.

It's time we hear yours.

And this week, I'm chatting with a legend of the South.

He rose to attention in a mud pit, starring in one of the most exciting debut music videos of all time for his 2001 hit single, Ugly, a track that not only pushed him front and center into the world of hip hop, but helped further change the face of the genre forever.

His local troop county, Georgia Buzz, led him to super producer Timbaland during what could only be described as a run of a lifetime, pairing him with not only the hit maker of the moment, but the legendary Dungeon Family team captain's organized noise as well.

And that turned into his first major label release at Interscope Records, Dark Days, Bright Nights, an album that went all the way to number three on the Billboard 200.

But it's his second album that's going to get the flowers it deserves today on Teen Beat.

2003's Deliverance, a perfect mixture of rap and country, a gimmickless mashup that has been so poorly done ever since, featured Justin Timberlake, Sleepy Brown, and Ryan Tedder, produced solely by Timbaland and Organized Noise, and forced the Village Voice to say, if Eminem is hip-hop's Elvis, then he is its Greg Allman.

But label politics in a strange climate for white rappers at the time forced it to underperform when in reality, it's a bona fide classic.

I'm telling you, go listen to it now.

I'll wait.

He'd follow it up with 2006's The Charm, his first on Big Boy from OutKast's Purple Ribbon Records, an album that included yet another hit single, his biggest yet, Ms.

New Booty, featuring the Ying Yang Twins and Mr. Kala Park.

But today, we'll not only find out what he's up to now, but we are going to talk all about his past as an all-region high school football player and his

and get into how a kid raised half a mile away from his closest neighbor became an integral part of rap in the early aughts.

Today on Teen Beat, it's a guest that I chose.

He didn't choose me.