Miami

Album: I'm The Problem (2025)
Charted: 21
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Songfacts®:

  • "Miami" is what happens when a Tennessee twang ends up in a South Beach nightclub. The song is a meditation on being a redneck in a place where boots and beer are replaced by Balenciaga and bottle service. "What the hell is a redneck gon' do in Miami," Morgan Wallen drawls.
  • Borrowing from Keith Whitley's 1986 hit "Miami, My Amy" - a song about falling for a girl in the Magic City - Wallen's version updates it with a trap-laced production.
  • Wallen co-wrote "Miami" with a familiar gang: Blake Pendergrass, Chase McGill, Charlie Handsome, Ernest, and Michael Hardy: the same team that gave us "I Got Better."
  • The song first appeared on Wallen's 2025 album I'm the Problem, but he wasn't done. At his July 2025 I'm the Problem Tour stops at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, Wallen dropped a surprise: swapping out his usual walkout anthem "Broadway Girls" for a preview of a remixed "Miami," featuring two veteran rappers. Released on June 25, 2025, the remix introduces fresh verses from an auto-Tuned Lil Wayne and Rick Ross with his signature grunt. Ross is from Miami and Wayne is often spotted there.
  • The "Miami" remix wasn't the first time Wallen dipped his toes in rap crossover country. He previously joined Lil Durk for "Broadway Girls" and "Stand By Me." He also linked up with Moneybagg Yo for "Whiskey Whiskey," and in 2023 made a surprise cameo in the video for Drake's "You Broke My Heart." That cameo, incidentally, had the internet briefly convinced Wallen was about to drop a verse on the Toronto MC's next album. He did not.
  • Here's a summary of Wallen's issues with Miami that he vents in the lyrics:

    He gets sand in his boots.
    Can't see the stars.
    He can't keep his gun in the truck.
    They don't know his name at the bars.

    He doesn't have any of these problems back home in Tennessee.

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