[3] Growing up, he primarily listened to rap music, including Eminem, Swollen Members, and Madchild.
[4] Around the age of seventeen, Whitcomb left home and moved to Kamloops, where he began working on the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
[3] Around the same time, his brother introduced him to Johnny Cash, and Whitcomb subsequently began singing after becoming a fan of Tyler Childers.
[4] At nineteen, while continuing to work on the pipeline, Whitcomb began to post karaoke videos of himself singing on Reddit.
The song was sent to radio formats in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and later became his first charting entry on the all-genre Canadian Hot 100.