Yelawolf is a Don

Yelawolf - Pop The Trunk from Motion Family on Vimeo.

So Yelawolf dropped the video for his track "Pop the Trunk" off the amazing Trunk Muzik mixtape he released earlier this year (probably a top 2 or 3 tape of the year, along with the Starlito and X.O. joints), and there's not much more I can say about it than what some other bloggers have already said. It's a great video from the amazing Motion Family (who I'll hopefully do a post on later this week), and puts a literal face on the lyrics Yela lays down on the track. Kind of seeing his juxtaposition of rural life and sudden violence in the first verse with the parking lot argument ending in a murder in the second verse is a good statement of what Yelawolf appears to be about in totality.

I'm extremely interested to see how Yelawolf goes over in the music world this year. I predicted that he'll be huge by the end of this year. He certainly has the pure talent and skill to put out some GREAT work, and his work on the hook for Santana's "Mixin Up the Medicine" seems to show he has some crossover appeal. As perhaps it was inevitable for Asher Roth to be compared to Eminem, people are beginning to compare Yelawolf and another rural southern rapper, Bubba Sparxxx. It's not a terribly long stretch to compare these two, but whereas Bubba Sparxxx' sound appeared to be artificially constructed with help from Timbaland or Collipark, Yelawolf seems to be totally in control of his own sound and image. He draws from a variety of disparate sources to create a wholly organic sound and image that's thrilling. Also, for the record, comparing him to Kid Rock is terrible.

Below I've compiled a video of Yelawolf freestyling and an interview off of last week's Baller's Eve, as well as a couple of tracks, "Fifty" with Grip Plyaz from his 2005 release Creekwater, my favorite track off of Trunk Muzik, "Speak Her Sex", and his track off the new SMKA album "Deer Mama":



Yelawolf feat. Grip Plyaz- "Fifty"
Yelawolf- "Speak Her Sex"
Yelawolf- "Deer Mama"