| Love is a Battlefield: Can Yelawolf Rebound? | April 29, 2015 |
Everybody knows you never go full Kid Rock.
| “Back to the Basics, man. Let’s. Make. This. Right.” Yelawolf Talks Major Label Redemption & The Dixie Mafia | January 16, 2015 |
From having the #1 Rap Song of 2010 on this site, to dropping a brick with Fefe Dobson, Yelawolf now knows the ledge. Jimmy Ness breaks cornbread with Catfish Billy.
| Re-Opening the Trunk: Yelawolf’s Return to Form | March 15, 2013 |
Did you think Yelawolf was finished? Hands raised. I had my doubts too. I wrote this article 18 months ago and had been waiting for him to validate me ever since. We’re living in a post-good kid, m.A.A.d. city world and it makes failures like Radioactive and Attention Deficit Disorder seem more toxic in retrospect. […]
| The Return From NASCAR Rap: Yelawolf’s “Fast Ride” | March 7, 2013 |
Tosten Burks is pretty proud of his use of the word “dyad.” Here’s to pleasant surprises. Just when you thought Yelawolf was to forever be just an unappreciated slum-savant devolved into another bland Shady Records family member, he reminds you how gloriously weird he’s capable of being. “F.A.S.T Ride,” from the upcoming Trunk Muzik Returns, […]
| Yelawolf moves to Slumdon | February 17, 2012 |
Tosten Burks has definitely gone Linsane. So Yelawolf debuts to high expectations and high critic cred (that’s what matters, right?) with an album largely criticized for being too poppy, and then responds with a project with a British pop songwriter? It’s the type of move that reads as gimmicky, but is delivered with a conviction […]
| The Hard White Wolf: Empty Towns and Radioactivity | December 7, 2011 |
A few weeks ago, I spent 24 hours in Vegas with Yelawolf for a piece in the latest Rolling Stone (it’s not available online, so pick it up, pick it up). It’s a uniquely weird phenomena to shadow a rapper on the verge of dropping an album that you haven’t heard, but have insanely high […]
| “Throwing it Up” at White Castle with Eminem, Yelawolf, & Gangsta Boo | November 28, 2011 |
Evan Nabavian was photo shopped out of this photo. For all the promise and accolades, the road to Yelawolf’s debut album did not inspire confidence. He signed a deal with the reanimated corpse of Shady Records and released two singles conceived by witless Interscope A&Rs. I was loath to admit it, but Radioactive seemed destined […]
| Video: Yelawolf – “No Hands” | August 29, 2011 |
If Yelawolf doesn’t become the next rap superstar, my faith will be forever shook in the industry system. Considering I still have a scintilla of faith despite reviewing nearly every major rap record release, is enough to convince me that I may not be a pure pessimist after all. If Eminem can make Royce go […]
| Wolf Blitzing: Yelawolf’s Next First Single | August 4, 2011 |
Things that make me go hmm: In 2011, why would you recruit Lil Jon to screech on your first single, when you can have the Valkyrie crunk of Lebron Flocka James. After all, Joaquin essentially stole the Golem’s ring and made “Bow Bow Bow,” the new “Yeah.” All this with a bare minimum of facility […]
| Some People Call Me the Gangsta of Love | July 5, 2011 |
The last six months have seen writers rush to reify the cult of the new weird rapper, but few immured Yelawolf into that minimum security prison. Admittedly, Odd Future may have gotten the youth of America to tear down pictures of Polow Da Don’s dick on their walls and replace them with Grizzly Bear paraphernalia, […]
