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Sturgill Simpson performs at the T-Mobile Mane Stage during the 2025 Stagecoach Festival on April 26, 2025 in Indio, California. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach Decades before he released a dance record, Sturgill Simpson was spreading the vibes with his rapping.
In a newly resurfaced video, a teenage Simpson is seen delivering charming bars about prom with his two pals. “I’m gonna tell you a little something ’bout prom/That’s the night they got it going on,” he sings in the clip below. “Eating breakfast at the Continental with my crew/Doing that thing, getting to you.” It’s easy to see how years later, this teenager would write a song called “Make America Fuk Again.”
It’s prom season. Sturgill spittin’ bars. pic.twitter.com/PyqTn3PRH5
— Galleywinter (@galleywinter) April 8, 2026
Simpson released the rowdy disco delight Mutiny After Midnight — his second record under his alter ego, Johnny Blue Skies — last month. Aside from briefly dropping on YouTube, the album was released only on physical formats, including a cherry-red vinyl pressing and via cassette. Despite this, the album debuted at Number Three on the Billboard 200.
