YelaWolf - Trunk Muzik 0-60 [Clean] [11/23] *

Artist:

Yelawolf

UPC:

602527421476

Description:

Recording information: Circle House Recording Studios, Miami, FL; Columbia Sounds, Columbia, SC; Hands Of God Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Sixteen Feet Studio, College Park, GA; S-Line Studios, Atlanta, GA; Treesound Studios, Norcross, GA.
Creator: Ianthe Zevos.
Photographer: Hannibal Matthews.
Yelawolf is a white rapper from Alabama with a delivery somewhat similar to styles Eminem has employed in the past: fast delivery, lyrics displaying a mordant wit, and a tendency to wallow in images of poverty rather than glorifying mindless consumerism. But there`s a horror-soundtrack darkness to his music, with synth lines reminiscent of John Carpenter, that gives it a greater intensity than Eminem`s clowning can muster. Furthermore, he`s defiantly country, describing mobile homes, trips to Wal-Mart, and generally setting himself up as what happens -- as he puts it in "That`s What We on Now" -- "when the sticks meet the bricks." This release is described as a "retail mixtape," since it contains six tracks from Yelawolf`s last underground release, Trunk Muzik, and six new tracks presumably recorded in the wake of his signing to Interscope. A few guests -- Raekwon, Bun B., and Gucci Mane -- show up, but it`s when Yelawolf`s on his own that he`s strongest, as on "Pop the Trunk," one of his best-known underground tracks. A story of backwoods violence underpinned by piano that sounds culled from a Nine Inch Nails ballad, it could have come off the soundtrack to the Kentucky-set TV crime drama Justified or the movie Winter`s Bone, about meth dealers in Appalachia. This mix of industrial/goth moroseness, hip-hop braggadocio, and stark lyrical brutality makes Yelawolf`s major-label debut (whether you call it a mixtape or an album) interesting, but it remains to be seen how quickly the appeal of his persona and subject matter exhaust themselves. ~ Phil Freeman

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Get the **** Up!
2. Daddy`s Lambo
3. That`s What We On Now
4. I Just Wanna Party
5. Billy Crystal
6. Pop the Trunk
7. Box Chevy
8. Good To Go
9. Love is Not Enough
10. I Wish
11. Trunk Muzik

Album Information

Release Date:

12/07/2010

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Southern Rap

Label:

DGC

Catalog Number:

BOO14451

Original Release Year:

2010

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Runtime:

44 : 41

Guest Artist:

Gucci Mane; Rock City; Rittz the Rapper; Bun B; Raekwon

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