Music / Boondox

David Hutto (born September 4, 1985), better known as Boondox, is a rapper from Covington, Georgia whose stage persona is a Scary Scarecrow. His music generally mixes Horrorcore, Country Rap and Rap Rock. Much of his lyrics employ a Refuge in Audacity approach to his macabre Deep South imagery, à la The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or House of 1000 Corpses. He's also released some Gangsta Rap tracks under the names "Turn Coat Dirty" and "Yung Dirt".

Boondox was the only Southern artist signed to Psychopathic Records. Though he left the label in 2012 due to problems with drug addiction, he came back the next year after he got sober, but left again in 2015, signing with Twiztid's record label, Majik Ninja Entertainment, the following year.

Discography:

• The Harvest (2006)
• PunkinHed EP (2007)
• Krimson Creek (2008)
• South Of Hell (2010)
• Abbadon (2014)
• The Murder (2017)
• Liquor, Lies & Legacy EP (2019)
• Krimson Krow (2020)
• So Much Blood EP (2022)

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Boondox provides examples of the following tropes:

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: His song "Family Tree" is about his real life family. Boondox's real life uncle tried to drown him when he was only two years old.
• Creepy Crows: His persona is a scarecrow so these naturally appear from time to time. His 2017 album The Murder in particular features squawking crows throughout and has this as its general theme. Its cover even has a picture of a murder of crows swarming around Boondox himself, who has long black bird wings.
• Deal with the Devil: Used for effect in Cold Day In Hell:
  I soul my soul for a .45
  a black cowboy hat and a switchblade knife
  I'm gonna burn like a sinner if they take my life
  but it'll be a cold day in hell before they take my pride...
• Deep South: Boondox' music is heavily based around these themes; particularly in the singles from his first two albums, "They Pray With Snakes" (from The Harvest), which is about backward hillbilly snake charmers, and "Inbred Evil" (from Krimson Creek), which is about a serial killer who is the evil product of incest, having murdered his parents, and kills anyone who comes around the woods where he resides. Mockery of hillbillies and rednecks is a reoccurring theme in Psychopathic lyrics.
• Don't Go in the Woods: Several of his songs. Hell, you may never want to get within 50 feet of a tree after hearing some of his songs.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: Seven gives us this little gem:
  A tisket, a tasket
  The scarecrow's out his casket
  Turn out the lights and lock the door
  Prayin' that he passes
• Mood Whiplash: On his Abbadon album the sad melancholic song Monster is followed by the upbeat and comedic My Night, which is then followed by the dark and creepy Black Eyed Kids.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The title of his album Abbadon. Go ahead and look up what it means.
• Shout-Out: The Harvest contains a few lyrical references to Children of the Corn (1984), with Boondox referring to himself as "the scarecrow of Malachi". The album also has some samples from that movie as well, particularly in the intro and on "Red Mist".
  • Abbadon references several things, from horror movies like Drag Me to Hell to video games like Silent Hill.
• Southern Gothic: "Black Eyed Children" is about paranormal creatures who look like children between the ages of 6-16, with pale white skin and black eyes that one can find on the doorsteps of residential homes.
• Sweet Home Alabama: While Deep South imagery is played with, Boondox also uses this as well, in "Southern Nights", "Country Life" and "Heathen", for starters. The South has good and bad aspects to it.
  • The song "My Night" off of Abaddon also has elements of this.
  • "Sittin' On The Porch" off of The Murder seems to be an example too.

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