While most of Us would be speechless to encounter Shania Twain at a party, rapper Yung Gravy says he first met the country icon because he thought she looked “approachable.”

“A lot of people I got to meet before I understood how massive they were or how talented they were,” Yung Gravy, 29, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting his Good Game campaign with Urban Outfitters. “Shania Twain, for example. I saw her at a Grammys party and she just looked approachable. … My brand was always the MILF thing, and she looked like she fit that criteria. And I didn’t know who she was.”

He continued: “Once I got talking to her, [who she was] dawned on me, because she always has a different hair color and stuff, but I didn’t even realize it. And then we just started getting along well, and I think she liked that part of it a lot. So that’s why we became so close. And I would go stay at her house and stuff.”

The rapper made headlines in 2022 when he brought Addison Rae’s mom, Sheri Easterling, as his date to the MTV Video Music Awards, telling Entertainment Tonight at the time of his fascination with older women: “They’re more experienced, they are an underserviced community, I’d like to say, and they deserve more attention.”

When Shania Twain arrived in Nashville in the early 1990s, record execs didn’t quite know what to do with her. She was clearly beautiful and talented, but her music — with its country-pop sound and sassy and unapologetically pro-woman lyrics — didn’t fit into a neat little box. “It was its own thing,” the 59-year-old […]

Twain, 60, definitely fits the criteria, as she is the mom of Eja D’Angelo Lange, whom she welcomed in 2001 with then-husband Robert “Mutt” Lange. But Yung Gravy says he didn’t make a pass at her because she’s already spoken for.

“[Her husband Frédéric Thiébaud] would hang out with us, and me and him also had a cute bond,” the “I Write Hymns Not Travesties” singer told Us. “He came from Switzerland, [and] it’s a similar situation to my dad, so we bonded over that.”

He added: “Fred’s cool. Shania and I actually made, like, six songs together, but we only put one on the album [“White Claw” from 2024’s Serving Country]. She wanted to reserve one for her next project. And then there’s a few that we just thought we’d hold on to, so you might hear more.”

While he had released a country rap song in 2019, Yung Gravy fully embraced the genre after befriending Hardy, Morgan Wallen and Twain, the last of whom served as a mentor to him.

“She helped me with understanding the country world,” he told Us of his relationship with the “You’re Still the One” singer. “The basics of music, like singing and guitar and all the stuff that I hadn’t really learned being a rapper, she helped me with that, which was kind of cool to have a super professional vocal coach.”

Shania Twain has nothing but love for Taylor Swift — and even feels like she is family. “I feel like I’m her aunt or something,” Twain, 58, said in a clip posted via Instagram of her appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “We’re in sync in a lot of ways and I really have a […]

These days, Yung Gravy is back to his rapping roots, and he’s embarking on his Voluptuous Voyage tour this fall in addition to college shows he’ll be performing as part of the Good Game campaign.

“I’ve always liked Urban Outfitters because they supported me [as] the first brick-and-mortar-type store to sell my vinyl, which is pretty cool, way back when,” he told Us of his love of the brand. “I would go in and buy my own vinyl and look at the workers and try to make them excited or feel weird … so it was an easy yes.”

The campaign, which celebrates the energy of college game-day culture, features college shops in 23 campus-adjacent stores and activations in addition to giveaways, mascot appearances, game-day pop-ups and live performances from artists like Yung Gravy, just in time for the start of the new school year.