{"id":413496,"date":"2026-08-22T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:26:09","slug":"dallas-rapper-bigxthaplug-arrested-nearly-a-year-after-being-taken-into-custody-before-album-release-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413496\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas rapper BigXthaPlug arrested, nearly a year after being taken into custody before album release, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas rapper BigXthaPlug was arrested Friday, nearly a year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/bigxthaplug-arrested-in-dallas-early-friday-after-new-ablum-dropped\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after police took him into custody ahead of his 2025 album release<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Born Xavier Landum, BigXthaPlug is facing driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, and illegal possession of a firearm charges, according to the Allen Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into Collin County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, we can confirm that an arrest has been made,&#8221; said Sam Rippamonti, public information officer for Allen police. &#8220;However, we are unable to provide any additional details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rapper.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"rapper.jpg \" height=\"802\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Dallas rapper and hip-hop star BigXthaPlug<\/p>\n<p>                Collin County Jail<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active, Rippamonti said.<\/p>\n<p>In late August 2025, BigXthaPlug was jailed on drug and weapons charges.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Dallas police said officers pulled over a pickup truck missing its front license plate on South Great Trinity Forest Way near U.S. 175. An officer asked the driver, identified as Landum, if he had a firearm. BigXthaPlug told officers he did and detailed where to find it in the truck. Police said a criminal database flagged Landum as connected to a gang in Arlington, which meant he was not legally allowed to possess a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they also found a small amount of marijuana in the truck.<\/p>\n<p>Before his 2025 arrest, BigXthaPlug had been scheduled to appear at an album release party in Deep Ellum to celebrate his then-new album, I Hope You&#8217;re Happy. The album included songs with artists such as Darius Rucker, Luke Combs, Shaboozey, and Jelly Roll.<\/p>\n<p>BigXthaPlug was born in Dallas and has lived in North Texas. His hit songs include &#8220;Texas&#8221; and &#8220;Mmhmm.&#8221; He had also previously been arrested on drug and weapons charges in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas rapper BigXthaPlug was arrested Friday, nearly a year after police took him into custody ahead of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,278,430,27],"class_list":["post-413496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-music","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}