During an interview with Denmark’s Splash! Magazine, Alabama rapper Yelawolf gave his commentary on a number of video clips that included everything from Outkast’s “Bombs Over Baghdad” to a clip of Eminem rapping in “8 Mile.”
After being shown the clip from 8-Mile, Yelawolf revealed that he had just watched the movie days ago and then went into detail on the series of events that led to him signing to Interscope Records.
“I watched this last week like 10 times. I watched it over and over again. It trips me out, you know. It’s like a sign…After I did a mixtape called Trunk Muzik we started touring with it and doing a lot of shows. We went to South By Southwest and did a big run in South By Southwest and did really well,” Yelawolf explained to Splash! Magazine. “One show in particular, the Fader Fort, was a huge show that we did at South By Southwest. And we had a scout A&R from Interscope named Todd Parker who came out to check us out. And after South By Southwest we flew to meet with Jimmy Iovine and sign with Interscope. And Trunk Muzik made its way to Paul Rosenberg’s desk and after Eminem went to Miami to work with Jim Jonsin. Jim Jonsin’s a good friend of ours and a good friend of mine. He played him ‘Pop The Trunk’ the video, played Marshall ‘Pop The Trunk,’ and after that he just started checking out Trunk Muzik and became a fan. Flew us out to Detroit for a meeting and that was pretty much it man.”
Yelawolf later went on to explain how big of a Mystikal fan he is after being shown the music video for No Limit’s “Make Em Say Ughh.”
“No Limit took over the world. They took over the South for sure. Mystikal, he killed this fuckin’ song man. I’m a huge Mystikal fan,” said Yelawolf. “The chopping and all the flipping and shit I got the inspiration from him. And performance style too. He’s just a beast. I used to just wait for his verse. Mystikal’s that shit. Huge Mystikal fan. No Limit was a huge influence in the South. I mean for the world. Master P has a business, man. He showed everybody you could do it. You could do it by yourself.”
Lastly Yelawolf spoke on one of the South’s most iconic groups, Outkast. And like many Yelawolf stressed the need for a new Outkast album.
“Yea, Outkast always changing the game. This is another crazy record…Dre and Big Boi need to get back together and do a fuckin album man. The world misses Outkast man, for real. We need another album,” Yelawolf explained while watching ‘Bombs Over Baghdad.’”
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Yelawolf is right. OutKast needs to release an album, and SOON! The game is needing it right now. Something original!
THIS WHITE TRASH IS A F L O P
Fuck you racist cunt.. Yelawolf is one of the realest in the game
james is white trash^^^^^^
need to speak on that floppy album..naw real talk he should have. he could of came wit the real n said nggas aint with the hard-truth lifestyle rap. they want the cupcake -poptart nggas in dress type of music…..got all these kids wearing colorful shirts smh @ when they grow up talk about being out
Do you do anything besides sit on HipHopDX and hate on everything that isn’t 50 cent?
God damn bitch.
thats clearly a man dressed in drag…
ENGLISH PLEASE I DONT SPEAK EBONICS!
You are the ugliest chick ever, real talk.
You know nothing about hiphop and just chat shit all day. I suggest you hide your FB shit cos you a ugly ass hoe.
hes a flop but your posting on his article. does that make your life a flop? loser. shoutout yela for puttin out real music while these counterfits keep puttin out bullshit. #SLUMERICAN
Why does always the crappers (crackers and rappers) except Eminem, are embarassing as a fuck? We don’t need a Tommy Lee trying to rap, you idiot. We already got Soulja Boy to put some shame in the game, we don’t need more of this stupid wannabes…
man shut ur ass up ur a wannabe..
eminem and these new white rappers are too much for these niggas now.
eminem is one of the best rappers alive fuck who ever u listen to nigga.
What do you black folks think about my article?
See ya dig, I dont like da way ya portrayin the homie and the homie son ya dig? Got us looking all gay and stuff in ya pics and whats not. We just stay with the money grabbing fashionista style and aint goin for that botty boy shizz.
Why you hatin on him?Fuck that!the guy is workin hard !Fuck the haterz !!!
@Lilmarccii jones stop promotin your bullshit and hatin on yelawolff!!FUCK YOU !
You Can Really Tell Outkast and Mystikal Influenced His Style