My favorite Hunxho story is that he used to have a shattered heart tatted on his face—until he had it redone into a healed heart. That’s the same energy that has made the Atlanta crooner one of the faces of the pain rap generation—extremely popular and bruised balladeers with forefathers like Boosie , Kevin Gates , and Lil Durk —but with a deeper focus on romance and a slightly lighter touch than his fellow sadboys Rod Wave and Toosii (who, by the way, is currently a 26-year-old college freshman on the LSU football team). With a deadpan delivery heavy on Auto-Tune, Hunxho’s wounded lullabies are like if Future became an advocate for therapy after Honest . He’s a man determined to right his wrongs, on a growth journey that has given him the perspective to become something like a gloomy Hitch for the TikTok era. Hunxho writes like the ideal bachelor on Pop the Balloon : In touch with his feelings and Christian; committed to hyping up women and giving them lots of expensive gifts.…