A 2013 tour with Hopsin previewed his album Love Story, but with Shady celebrating its 15th anniversary and Yelawolf going on tour with DJ Paul, it took until 2015 for the record to see release. League handled production.Ī year later, he partnered with blink-182 drummer Travis Barker for the rap-rock EP Psycho White. Guest shots came from Eminem, Kid Rock, Lil Jon, and Gangsta Boo, while names like Diplo, Jim Jonsin, and the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. His signing to the label was announced in 2011, and by the end of the year his official debut, Radioactive, had landed. In 2010, an appearance on Bizarre's album Friday Night at St Andrews became an early sign that the rapper was aligning himself with Eminem's Shady label and its family of artists. Newly inspired, he worked to build an audience for himself via MySpace and mixtapes. Disillusioned with life on a major label, he returned to the underground rap scene. He subsequently made the jump to Sony BMG for the release of a promotional single, "Kickin'" (2007). Along with fully solo albums like 2021's Mud Mouth, he worked with Riff Raff, Caskey, and DJ Muggs on rap-leaning projects, and teamed with Shooter Jennings for the more country-rock-styled 2022 album Sometimes Y.īorn Michael Wayne Atha in Gadsden, Alabama, Yelawolf made his full-length album debut with the independent release Creekwater (2005). After breaking with Shady in 2019 after the release of his fifth studio album Trunk Muzik III, Yelawolf entered a phase of prolific collaboration. As part of Eminem's Shady label, the Alabama native brought a distinctively Southern flavor to his multisyllabic flows and lyrics that drew inspiration from rural poverty and Southern Gothic imagery. Yelawolf is an underground rapper from a small town in the South who found major-label success in 2011 with the release of the album Radioactive.
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