BigXthaPlug and Ella Langley’s Hell At Night isn’t a song about moving on; it’s a song about making sure the other person doesn’t.
Released August 8, 2025, ahead of BigX’s album I Hope You’re Happy, it’s a country-rap hybrid that trades in sharp-edged spite instead of soft-focus closure, building a petty breakup anthem for the playlists of the still-aggrieved.
It begins deceptively. Langley’s voice drifts over a light, twang-laced guitar, almost playful in tone, the way someone might lull you into thinking the worst is behind them.
Then the hook lands: “I hope it’s hell at night, straight through the mornin’,” sung sweetly enough to sting twice.
The production, handled by Charlie Handsome, UV Killin Em, and BandPlay, shifts gear with thunderous low end and rattling hi-hats, laying the ground for BigX to arrive in full Texas stride.
His verses play like a burn list set to a beat. “I hope you finally find some love and every day he hurt your feelings… I hope you turn your heater on and it blow cold” isn’t the kind of line you’d find in a generic revenge song; it’s too specific and pointed to be mistaken for throwaway writing.
Langley meets him beat for beat, delivering her lines with a coolness that makes the venom more potent.
Together, they reject “forgive and forget” outright, choosing instead to catalogue every wish for misfortune with the precision of country storytelling and the bite of Southern rap.
Part of what makes Hell At Night compelling is how naturally it straddles both genres.
Langley’s Nashville grit grounds the song in country tradition, while BigX’s flow pulls from the same regional pride and narrative directness that has always linked country and hip hop.
BigX has been steadily shaping this sound, name-checking artists like Luke Combs and Shaboozey in the lead-up to I Hope You’re Happy, which follows his June release Home featuring Shaboozey.
Fans picking through the singles so far have clocked it too, calling Hell At Night the “divorcee’s anthem we didn’t know we needed” and “perfect for when you’re over crying and ready to start plotting.”
The visualizer, already climbing past hundreds of thousands of views within days, deepens the song’s mood.
Stark lighting, silhouettes, and slow, deliberate cuts create a tension that complements the track’s lyrics; a surface calm masking a simmer that never cools.
BigX has described I Hope You’re Happy as “every version of a heartbreak,” moving from nostalgia and self-doubt to outright hostility.
Hell At Night lives in the latter chapter, unapologetic in its fixation on payback.
It doesn’t try to make the listener feel better about holding a grudge; it makes them feel seen for it.
With the album arriving August 22, this single serves as a reminder that spite, when handled with craft and conviction, can be as enduring as sadness.
Hell At Night bottles that energy and gives it rhythm, a mix of country grit and rap bite that proves there’s still room in heartbreak music for the kind of honesty you can’t dress up.
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Below are the full Hell At Night lyrics from BigXthaPlug feat. Ella Langley
Verse 1: Ella Langley
Heartbreak’s a funny thing
How it makes you think, what it makes you want
While when it ends, does gettin’ revenge sound better than movin’ on?
Damn, I’d love to live and let live
Let it go, forgive and forget
Holdin’ a grudge ain’t what I wanna do
But when it comes to you
Chorus: Ella Langley & BigXthaPlug
I hope it’s hell at night
Straight through the mornin’
I hope you close your eyes
And just can’t ignore it
‘Cause it’s too damn loud
Tossin’ and turnin’
I hope it’s hell at night
And my memory’s burnin’ (Ayy), burnin’
Verse 2: BigXthaPlug
I hope you hear me every time you play a song
I hope you meet the right person but y’all never get along
I hope you know that you ain’t right and you so good at burnin’ bridges
I hope you finally find some love and every day, he hurt your feelings
I hope you, I hope you turn your heater on and it blow cold
I hope you leave your car runnin’ at the store and it get stolen
I hope you have a nightmare every single day of your life
I hope you have a bad mornin’ and one hell of a night
Chorus: Ella Langley & BigXthaPlug
I hope it’s hell at night
Straight through the mornin’
I hope you close your eyes
And just can’t ignore it
‘Cause it’s too damn loud
Tossin’ and turnin’
I hope it’s hell at night
And my memory’s burnin’ (Ayy), burnin’
Verse 3: BigXthaPlug
I hope you see me every time you close your eyes
And every time you think about me, you hear thunder in the sky
I’m out the way, and by the way, I hope you lived in what you learned
Hope you go deep into the woods and you make the wrong turn
Verse 4: Ella Langley
Hope it burns you up like a cigarette
Like a last call shot straight to the head
Hope you stare at the wall or an old home screen
Kind of hopin’ I call ’cause you can’t call me
Chorus: Ella Langley
I hope it’s hell at night
Straight through the mornin’
I hope you close your eyes
And just can’t ignore it
‘Cause it’s too damn loud
Tossin’ and turnin’
I hope it’s hell at night
And my memory’s burnin’, burnin’
