Yelawolf recently spoke to Complex.com about his recently released Shady Records debut Radioactive, explaining how each track came to be. During the interview, Catfish Billy reflected on recording album standout “Throw It Up” 
featuring Gangsta Boo and Eminem, noting that the female rapper didn’t initially want to spit over such a sparse beat.
“I told Gangsta Boo, who I had called out for a session, ‘This is the record.’ When the hook came up she was like, ‘What the fuck? There’s no drums. It just loses its bop.’ She actually recorded the hook over the drum loop. Then I just arranged the music up under it,” he said. “The whole point was to create a juxtaposition with her and I. I wanted the music to be pretty, but I wanted it to be darker on the verses. I wanted her to come crazy hard because the music’s got a beautiful melody. After we recorded it, I knew it was another super-banger.”
Yela asked his Shady boss Eminem to hop on the cut, though he wasn’t sure if he could make it happen. After he managed to wrangle his two guest features, the record became a “mindfuck.”
“It was kind of like taking 8 Mile and putting it with Hustle & Flow. If I got that feature from Marshall, I wanted to bring him into my zone, my culture. And he fucking murdered it. It’s one of those records that, to me, as far as hip-hop and culturally on this project, is one of the most important records because of what it says about us as a team at Shady.
“Us three on the same record is a mindfuck,” he continued. “It’s almost like it shouldn’t be, but it is and it’s dope. That’s the whole point of this album. The album really has this balance of dark and light. Some songs feel good, some are dark, and some are in-between, but they all have a vibe of their own. They’re really specific in the vibes of the records.”
Read the full track-by-track breakdown of Radioactive over at Complex.
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Who cares?
troll you obviously care because you’re commenting
r u a girl i hope so with that name lol “Lita”
Do you believe that? Em murdered it? His verse was the shittiest I’ve heard in a long while, lol. Eminem isn’t giving it his all, he’s wasting his talent. #fansdown http://www.youletthefansdown.com
Do you believe that? Em murdered it? His verse was the shittiest I’ve heard in a long while, lol. Eminem isn’t giving it his all, he’s wasting his talent. #fansdown
@neppert, it was kind of strange but he had me dying with that line about throwing a whopper back at someones face and saying bitch im a rapper
More like his funniest verse in ages (excluding the BET Cypher) and his best flow since the MMLP… It was also lyrical as always. To top it off he dissed Soulja Boy. I’m not getting what was so bad about the verse itself.. Yeah it had nothing to do with the song, but nobody’s verse did..
you retarded buddy if you dont like eminem’s verse its just cause he spits so fast ur simple ass cant hear what he’s saying lol that shit was funny as fuck he fuckin murdered it eminem as far as lyrics n spittin fast is prob better than he has been his whole career. He doesnt always have 2 be rappin about some emotional bs 4 it 2 be good you homo. #stan
“his best flow since the MMLP”
wtf you takin bout man… did you listen to eminem show or 8 mile soundtrack… how you gonna say that was his best flow… you fuckin brain damaged mo’fucker??!
Yes I have. The delivery on those was better but not the flow.
em dont have to give it his all he blows 95% of the competition away not trying at all
i care,this is crasy,gangsta boo and eminem on one track….NUTS
ur a faggot
^your a fag for calling him one
No u r u spanish immagrant for postin a pic of u with the camera n ur hand which clearly means u took it n the mirror lol
first off I’m not an IMMIGRANT 2nd learn how to spell you dumb fuck and 3rd if your so smart you’d realize its a fuckin phone you dumb fuck and this pic is my profile pic on facebook least I use my real name instead of “Anonymous” fuckin internet fag
Even with a HHDX article EVRY DAY!! Noone is buying this dudes record
Thank u thats what im sayin
Its just they are trying to make this dude the next big “white” rapper… theyve given him millions in Label/Radio promo… put him on every tour possiby, and people just dont feel this cat… maybe in the South he has a buzz, but on the West Coast NOONE is talking about this dude
man these pussy ass kids these days..used to hearing lil waynes and drakes simple ass flows dont recognize the versatility of yelawolf
Im buying his album fag
as if this website dictates or helps record sales at all?? i bet 99% of his fans have never heard of this site…these hip hop sites don’t catch much attention in the grand scheme of things…
Well, considering I don’t know one single person who buys albums anymore then I suppose maybe your right?
Yela rips, this record is dope. If you seriously don’t recognize this dude, you don’t recognize the versatility of rap.
O no they got Yela dressed in BLACK n WHITE stripes and Masionic colors…. ILLUMINATI!!!!!!!!!
YELLRRRR!!!! damn ppl hating on the internet on a guy who makes more money then them… if life was a game you sure are loosing and who cares if anyone is talking about this fool on the west coast… the west coast died with pac… haha well keep up the good work yela!
You pussys always have to bring up money, I am broke as fuck & do not give 2 shits about money when I am listening to music.
and i got stacks buried in the backyard, enough to buy your baby moms your moms, and that little tight infant poon nigga, let me get at it !!!!
I’d be happy for Yelawolf if he beats Mary J.Blige and Rhianna.
Its not a mind fk to put gangsta boo on a track with Em, but it is when you get 3 mediocre verses from team shady. Atleast Em admitted he didn’t want to be on this track as first. Im sure he did it for Yela. Sorry stans, this is average!
Average? I do believe you mean it fucking sucks, why in the fuck does DX keep hyping this song, it is awful, Em is clearly just fucking around on this track & GBoo need not touch a mic again, whatever mediocre hype she had many years ago is long fucking gone, actualyy if it were just the 2 Shady boys this might be considered average, but it is one of the worst cuts on the album.
Garbage must be your real name cause that what I think about your logic. You are probably a SouljaBoy fan huh…The song was great….You must have uglyboy swag huh
when will you idiots realise that people dont by records anymore and that entertainers make about 1% or less off of album sales anyway unless your indy. buying your rappers favourite album really makes no sense, unless you want to help the record label. buy a concert ticket and support the grind. selling a million makes you “maintream” anyway so what the fuck is the difference how many records you sell when if he only sells 300k there will be people arguing as to why he shouldve sold 2 million. pointless rambling.
There is plenty of reasons to buy music. Supporting your artist (they certainly get more then 1%…), getting the highest quality, telling record labels to sign more artists like this dude, telling artists to make more music like this dude, etc… Yes buying a concert ticket is more beneficial to the artist though.
Check out our exclusive interview with Yelawolf from when he was in Boston last month: http://nehip-hop.com/?p=500
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I bought ‘Radioactive’ and it’s weak. So disappointed.
sup guys who wants to here my next song you put on your comment what i should name my next song