Hugh Glass

Hugh “The Duke” Glass, the raw, relentless voice behind Red Dirt Rap, hails from the dusty plains of Woodward, Oklahoma - a place where the wind whispers stories of grit as fiercely as it kicks up red dust. Born into a life marked by loss, Hugh’s father, John Wayne, passed when he was just five months old, leaving him and his mother to drift like tumbleweeds across the heartland.

From South Dakota’s rugged mountains to the humid sprawl of Mississippi, Texas’s wide-open ranges to a fleeting stop back in Oklahoma, they moved twelve times before Hugh hit twelve. Each mile in that beat-up car, with the radio as his only constant companion, stitched together the soul of a dreamer.

Eminem’s fire, Johnny Cash’s grit, Kid Rock’s rebellion, and Ray Charles’s soul became the soundtrack to a boy searching for roots. Music wasn’t just noise for Hugh, it was a lifeline. He remembers a day in Alva, Oklahoma, sweat-soaked and picking rye, when the radio flipped from George Strait’s twang to Biggie Smalls, and boom - a collision of worlds that sparked Red Dirt Rap.