Texas rapper BigXthaPlug and country star Shaboozey shut down the streets of Dallas to film a new video of their highly anticipated rap-country collaboration, bringing traffic to a standstill.

When people think of suburbia, they think of homogeneity. That’s not the case in Sugar Land, Texas, about a 20-mile drive southwest of downtown Houston, where cultural diversity is a point of pride.

But record shop + bar Off the Record became a line-down-the-block, the-doorman-doesn’t-know-you hotspot thanks to a constant nightly rotation of Dallas’ best DJs. The small space found new ...