Yelawolf

Photography By: Lauren Gesswein For the better part of 2013, Eminem has stayed out of the spotlight. There are murmurs of collaborations with TDE and Big Sean on the horizon, but diehard Shady fans have been anticipating a new project for some time...

Deer can be very territorial and so can rappers—especially when it comes to merchandise. Yelawolf claims that he confronted Mackelmore at this weekend's Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal, Canada over a shirt with a picture of a deer on it. Acco...

On his debut album Radioactive (2011), Alabama hero Yelawolf teamed up with fellow Southerner Gangsta Boo for a track called "Throw It Up." Now, Yela has announced that he would be keeping it country by teaming up with another Memphis icon in DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia. In a cap...

Earlier this week, it was reported that Brazilian funk MC Daleste was tragically shot in the middle of a performance in the city of Campinas, Brazil. According to initial reports, Daleste was stricken in his abdomen mid-show before immediately collapsing and causing chaos in the building...

Jackie Chain drops "Yea Thats Me (Remix)" featuring Yelawolf and Big K.R.I.T., which is a cut from his newest mixtape, Bruce Lean Chronicles Vol. 2, due out now. This blood pumping record puts together three down south MCs for some southern cookin' as the trio flex on the mic about their prowess for getting money. The...

2013 XXL Freshman Class is in full effect and time will tell if this will be the best class ever. In the meantime, we're taking a look back at each XXL Freshman from past classes to see what they've been up through their music since being a Freshman...

On 2005's "Old School Rules" by Danger Doom, Talib Kweli raps that, "I might be buggin but it seem to me/That cartoons be realer than reality TV." While we could easily enumerate a number of reasons why Kweli's lyric is a bold hyperbole to make - namely because they're cartoons - it definitely speaks to hip-hop's longstanding history with the animated arts. Whe...

As XXL has done in previous months, the end of March means we’ve combed through a number of mixtapes that were released. Yelawolf made a statement with his follow-up to Trunk Muzik, Jet Life’s own Fiend dropped a much-talked about tape, and Harry Fraud gathered his best songs as a free fan giveaway. There are ...

Yelawolf has a few accomplishments under his belt. For a rapper who is still early in his career, he has already worked with legendary MCs—including names such as Raekwon, Juelz Santana and Bun B. Plus, those collaborative EPs with Travis Barker and Ed Sheeran are more reasons that his versatility is growing. D...

Since the release of his major-label debut Radioactive, Yelawolf has slowly crept back into the underground hip-hop scene. The idea of crossing over for a larger commercial audience in hopes of scoring a hit weren’t met to his expectations. Ther...

Last Thursday (March 14, 2013), down in Austin, Texas, Shady/Slumerican representative Yelawolf tore the roof down of Club de Ville, cranking all new tracks off his latest output Trunk Muzik Returns. The function, hosted by Monster Energy and XXL Magazine, was an exuberant turnout with Yela diehards cheering along to every anthemic record the Alabaman MC pulled out of his arsenal...