Mason Ramsey, is a man or boy, of many names.
Some of you might know as Walmart Kid or the Yodelling Kid, or the Walmart Yodelling Kid,
or even Lil Hank Williams, which his his instagram handle.
In case you didn’t know, he went viral after a video of him singing in a Walmart took over
the internet.
The original video was filmed on March 24th of 2018, by Dana Tanner, a teachers assistant,
who was shopping at a local walmart in Harrisburg Illinois.
To her, she was just filming Mason singing, which she’s done before.
But for the rest of us, a gold mine and the start of a very young country singer’s career,
or so we thought.
It turns out Ramsey already had a bit of a career before he went viral, being a hometown
celebrity, he had already opened for the likes of Kenny Rogers, Gene Watson and the Bellamy
Brothers.
Since going viral and appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show twice, WeDay, Good Morning
America, and even performing on stage at Coachella back in 2018, you may be wondering, where
is Mason Ramsey now?
Well, we’re here to tell ya here on our new series where are they now.
Fair to say this isn’t so much a new series as a rebranded version of After They Were
Famous, but either way, it’s the start of something wonderful.
What’s going on guys Jarred Bronstein here today for you on Where Are They Now?
This is of course a new series we’re trying out, we most recently did a video on Tekashi
69 and figured you guys might want to know about Mason Ramsey or the Yodeling Walmart
Kid.
Be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you like this new series and let us know in
the comments below who you’d like us to cover next.
There’s a ton of actors, or star athletes that seem to have fallen off the face of the
earth.
And we want to tell you what they’re doing now.
But today’s video is on Little Hank Williams JR, so let’s get in toooo ooooooo (yodel)
it.
I won’t do that ever again.
We also got a trivia question for y’all, what gift did Mason buy for his best friend
Menno to make up for the fact that he bailed on their plans to go to baseball game together?
Let me know in the comments below.
Mason Ramsey was born on November 16th, 2006 and currently lives in Golconda, Illinois.
His parent’s weren’t very involved in his life just weeks after his birth, so his
grandparents, Ernie and Francis Ramsey, took him in.
Mason also has an older sister, who was born in 1997 and was also raised by her grandparents
from a young age.
It’s believed his parents live in Oklahoma, but why they haven’t been a part of Mason
and his sister's lives are still unknown.
Nevertheless his grandparents we're quick to step in and help turn the little boy into
the star he would quickly become.
Working as a general contractor and handyman, Mason’s granddad Ernie and his grandmother,
Francis who worked for the Shariff’s department would be the main reason Mason would start
listening to country music, more specifically, Hank Williams Jr. Ernie had a karaoke machine
he would sing with a young Mason that would play Hank songs.
This would be the birth of Mason’s love for country music, and why he would be caught
singing an acapella version of Hank William’s Lovesick blues.
As many of you know this would be the video that put Little Hank Jr on the map, spawning
a handful of remixes and of course a record deal for the young man.
But prior to all of this, he would perform in local music festivals and open for a handful
of country singers when they would perform near his hometown of Golconda so it seems
his success was almost inevitable.
If you guys want to hear more about Mason’s rise to success and fame check out the Before
They Were Famous we did on him about a year ago.
So we’re going to tell you guys what he’s been up to since
going viral.
Mason’s actually been quite a busy guy since amassing over 1.8 million instagram followers,
releasing his EP Famous which included the hit single of the same name, and announcing
a part 2 of his tour, which recently just wrapped up 11 dates of the first leg.
It all started after he went viral and started receiving a ton of phone calls and messages
from very important people.
One of those people, or should I say peoples, does that make sense?
Okay, Mason and his family got a call from two LA managers, Dan Awad and Danny Kang,
who after seeing Mason’s viral video, realized he was the next Johnny Cash.
Although they didn’t know much, or anything about Country music, they did know one of
their clients, DJ Whethan, was performing at Coachella.
After a 3 hour phone call, offering an all expenses paid trip for Mason and his family
to fly out to LA to perform during Whethan’s set, they agreed.
All this went down not long after the family had already turned down an offer to perform
on Stage with Post Malone, because it would interfere with Mason’s scheduled performance
at the legendary Grand Ole Opry.
Following the performance, which made Mason the youngest Country singer ever to play a
Coachella, Mason’s new managers were able to pull together a record deal with Atlantic
and Big Loud Records, which he would sign a high profile deal with.
Not long after, Mason would be in the studio recording his debut single, Famous, which
would debut at number 4 on the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, would be the first
of many songs for the young country singer.
The entire EP would be released on July 20th, 2018, and of course include Mason’s cover
of Lovesick Blues, which was originally by the great Hank Williams Jr, but it seems Little
Hanks rendition might take the cake.
With the success of his EP, it would only be right for Ramsey to take his talents on
the road and let fans hear the young boy live.
This would spawn Mason’s first tour, titled Mason Ramseys 2019 Hows Your Girl And Hows
Your Family Tour.
Starting off in Tuscaloosa Alabama on March 22nd and hitting Austin Texas, Iowa City and
Nashville, as well as a date in LA and Ohio, the tour would wrap up on April 26th in Milwaukee.
Mason has also performed at the CMA’s, Stage Coach, most recently performed at Country
Boom Music Festival in West Salem, along with Kip Moore and Kane Brown.
However the success of Mason’s initial tour would eventually spawn a second leg of his
tour, which is going to start on October 3rd in Atlanta Georgia, and hit major cities such
as Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and LA once again, before ending in San Francisco
on November 23rd.
Still this second leg of his tour, which has almost triple the amount of dates his first
tour had, shows Mason isn’t slowing his roll anytime soon.
And he’s also quite the showman.
He doesn’t just sit up there with a guitar and strum.
He gets into it with the crowd, and I mean that quite literally.
Ramsey was also seen on a billboard in New York’s Time Square promoting his single
Famous, which is pretty cool for a 12 year old, and has been in the company of the likes
of Justin Bieber, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes and Lil Yachty.
But most notably, Mason dropped this photo of him and Lil Nas X, most famously known
for singing Old Town Road.
The photo was posted almost 2 months ago at the time of this recording, and was captioned
“should we collab?”
Now this might of been a joke, but, to the surprise of many, on July 12th, 2019 Lil Nas
X dropped another remix of Old Town Road.
He’s already got his remix with Billy Ray Cyrus, which made the song even bigger than
it originally was.
Well now you can add Young Thug and of course, Mason Ramsey to the list of people who jumped
on the song.
If you haven’t heard the remix yet, be sure to check it out.
Mason adds his twang to it and tries his hand at rapping as well, which surprisingly isn’t
all that bad.
Also on the note of Twang, Mason’s latest single is titled just that, Twang, and of
course included the young Country Star throwing in his signature yodelling.
He’s doing all this, while still holding on to being a kid as much as he can.
On top of all of this, Mason moved to Nashville and Now it seems like this kid really isn’t
going anywhere anytime soon.
Similar to that of Bad Baby, better known as the cash me outside girl, Mason has been
able to use his virality, trust me it’s a word look it up, to quickly launch his career
from a very young age.
Although it’s been just over the 1 year anniversary mark since going viral, Mason
has been able to accomplish more than most musicians can in a single calendar year.
Moving forward he’s hoping to collaborate with the likes of Blake Shelton, and im sure
it wont be long before he releases a full length studio album.
Now when he’s not playing for thousands of screaming fans, Mason likes to play basketball
with friends or anyone who’s willing to play with him.
He even admitted if he didn’t become a country singer he would want to play basketball, go
to Duke and eventually play for the Golden State Warriors alongside Klay Thompson, Draymond
Green and his favourite player Steph Curry.
But he’s also a fan of Kyrie Irving who’s on the Nets, with Durant so maybe he’d go
there.
Who knows.
Doesn’t matter, he’s not going to the NBA.
Aside from all of this, Ramsey is getting some attention from the ladies, even admitting
on Ellen that he’s been proposed to a few times from both girls his age and some older
women.
But can you blame them?
I mean the kid’s a total ladies man.
Although he says he isn’t ready to settle down just yet, which at 12 I don’t really
blame the guy, he did admit he’s got a crush on Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown,
who he’s face timed with a handful of times.
Imagine if the two of them started going out, it’d literally be the two of the world’s
biggest child stars coming together to take the world by storm.
Who know’s if that’ll ever happen, but I’m sure Masons’ focus is his music career,
which seems to have a lot more life to it than we all previously thought.
You guys gotta let me know in the comments down below if you’re going to be attending
any of Little Hank’s concert dates and which one of his songs is your favorite.
Now for our trivia question, well Mason’s a busy guy, and as much as he loves to hang
with friends, he had to cancel on his best pal Menno last year because he had to go work
on some music in Nashville.
To make up for bailing last minute, Mason went out and bought his old friend an xbox
one s and a literal handful of games as you can see here.
What a nice gesture, but NBA Live 19 over 2k?
Cmon cuuuuh.
Once again thanks for watching our new series Where Are They now, if you liked it be sure
to let us know by giving this video a thumbs up, sharing it with a friend and letting us
know who you’d like to see us cover next.
I’ve been your host Jarred Bronstein, you can find me on social media @bronst7 where
I will always reply to any suggestions you DM with.
Check out some of our other videos we’ve done on here, such as the Tekashi 69 Where
are they now?
Or the Before They Were Famous we did on Mason.
Until next time, stay classy youtube.
It’s funny because I know you wont and you’ll tell me to die in the comments.