A statement from his record label, BBR Music Group, said the writer and producer was injured on Monday night and was transported to a local hospital where he underwent a 12-hour operation.
Additional surgeries are expected and his family asked for prayers.
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Brown’s combination of country and trap went viral on the app TikTok, where people recreated his dance moves or added their own dances and tagged it to #TheGitUpChallenge.
Blanco Brown performs The Git Up at the Teen Choice Awards in California (Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)
The song spent 12 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and reached number 14 on the all-genre Hot 100 chart.
He released his BBR Music Group debut album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs last year.
