Yelawolf is currently gearing up for his major label debut Radioactive, but he’s had his fair share of trying moments on the road to his release. Speaking with NC’s 102 Jamz, Catfish Billy recalled getting booed while opening for Raekwon in New York City and a few times getting heckled by fans at Wiz Khalifa shows.
“First legit boo? I’ve gotten booed by a few haters and shit. My first legit boo was when I went to New York opening up for Raekwon in New York City,” he said. “I brought a banjo player with me, I brought a drummer, a fiddle player and as soon as I stepped out on stage, I said, ‘What’s up Alabama’ or something like, ‘This is my first time in Alabama, everybody make some noise!’ and I was in New York City. But they just struck it off. I got through it, though. By the end, they were backing it. Couple Wiz shows already, that was… You know.”
He also spoke on the state of white rappers, and how some up-and-coming emcees need to school themselves on Hip Hop history before picking up a mic.
“There’s always been white rappers, it’s nothing new under the sun. There’s only been one with worldwide success and longevity. You know who that is – Marshall. But there’s always been white rappers. It’s cool, but a lot of times, it’s nerve-wracking because of the lack of respect of the culture that a lot of white rappers have. But there are plenty of real cats out there. With the Internet now, you could be knowledgeable about everything.”
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How about the Beastie Boys? They had (and still have) worldwide success! I ain’t mad tho, u doin your thing Yela. Hollaratche!!
Good luck to this guy, but, Why was he in New York of all places talking about “What’s up Alabama?” he had to know he was going to get clowned.. and his comment about white rappers.. well, I guess his age in the game is showing.. the beastie boys are still going at it, and Everlast has morphed his career a few different ways over the years, solo, house of pain, etc.
“There’s only been one with worldwide success and longevity.”
No white rapper has even come close to achieving the same amount of success as Eminem. And not just in America but Worldwide Eminem is famous in damn near every continent.
The Beastie Boys are the closest to him but just compare album sales and yu’ll see they’re not that close.
hes not tryna say all other white rappers are shit, but Eminem is the only one that you can really say is a worldwide phenomenon
Obama’s white??
Of course not. Cant’t balance a check book and run up his credit/debt? Yep, he’s black.
Yeah cause all those wall street types that have helped to crash the economy and then get government bailouts are mostly black…
yelawolf was in the BORO didnt know that wack ass radio station
these cats need 2 sign me CEENIAL
youtube’d you. If your the boy who sings ‘we can get it poppin’ you sound like every other unsigned rapper talkin’ bout poppin’ bottles in the club n shit. Not hatin’, but if you expectin 2 get signed you might want to try doin’ something original.
Yep, because obviously originality is super popular right now in the hip hop industry.
It’s 2011, getting signed is not the route you want to take anyways. You have to build your own thing from the ground up, and create your own buzz. That’s the only way Majors will even pay attention, and by that point you won’t need them.
Eminem won’t let you be on any of his pictures ha ha ha.
I like Slaughterhouse but I cnt get w/dis guy..His voice is so raspy, he’s not dat bad but jus dnt like his voice wen he raps
hes not in slaughterhouse
He meant cuz Em signed em both to Shady…. Retard
The only white rapper(s) to gain worldwide success and longeiviety is Em?
Whhhaaaat? You forgetting some little group….
The BEASTIE BOYS!
Word. Beastie Boys definitely fit into that category. Paul’s Boutique got a 20th anniversary repress within the last year and it sold pretty damn well, and if a 20+ year old record can still sell a decent amount of copies these days, that says something.
he got booed off during the wiz khalifa show here at my school (washington state), which i thought was kinda funny…then like a month later he actually started to grow on me. irony
where at in washington state? i live here in washington (spokane) i wanna kno where this show was at? thats legit tho, he gotta couple good tracks out.. imma wait til his album drops to officially give my 2 cents
I would never boo Yela he is a great rapper regaurdless what anyone says
Regardless* you fucking troll. It’s people like you who back this sorry ass excuse for an emcee. People who can’t spell and relate to his simple ass metaphors and unoriginal flow and subject matter.
who has a flow like Yelawolf? Honestly
LOL dont be mad at his subject matter because you don’t understand where he comes from. Yelawolf is dope and can’t wait for the album and YES IM WHITE. Who gives a fuck.
why is every1 worried bout spelling on a hip hop website. rappers make up there own fuckin words. hip hop isnt about spelling dickfuck
LOL, you fucking liar. ”Unoriginal” is the most unfitting word one could describe Yelawolf with.
THEY BOO CUSS YOUR A JOKE(YOUR WHOLE STYLE) NOT TO MANY PEOPLE FELLING YOUR RHYMES AND COME ON YOU DONT HAVE FANS IN NYC BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING TO PROVE YOURSELF AS A EMCEE ALL YOU PUT OUT WAS A MIX TAPE A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND HAD SOME GUEST FEATURES YOU CANT HAVE ALL THIS HYPE AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE BESIDES THE SOUTH WITH A BANJO MOHAWK AND WHATEVER SHIT YOU WAS DOING AND EXPECT NOTHING BUT LOVE LET PEOPLE JUDGE YOUR ALBUM FIRST AND SO FAR ITS LOOKING LIKE A FLOP
White rappers fucking suck. eminem is a needle in a haystack
YOU CANT GO TO NEW YORK LIKE OF COURSE THERE GOING TO BOO AND PROBABLY LAUGH DAM THAT’S COMING TEXAS 2 NOBODY FEELING THIS HICK EM NEEDS TO DROP THIS DUDE
shout out to all the skaters out there………destroy it all!!
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dear yellerwhack,
Face it you fucking suck. you’re nothing special. You’re a bland rapper who only get’s buzz because you’re white and lame ass shit stain white kids boost your music just because your white. Go underground, i don’t want to have to hear you bumping in someone elses car because they have the radio on.
Oh yeah, and your voice is annoying as fuck, go make peoples ears bleed somewhere else.
Even if Gucci man and wacka flaka and wack niggas like that suck, at least they are black. White people automatically have something to prove when they come in the rap game and they don’t get the privalege of being whack right off the bat like black people do. If you’re not really talented, keep your shitty white pasty pale pig faced ass out of hip-hop”
thanks =]
-BlackHipHop > WhiteWannabe’s
P.S.
Yelawolf popped the trunk on my boyfriend so thats why i hate him
come on son, this guy was obviously trolling, dont be an idiot
Word
Keep your albino monkey ass off a hiphop site if you feel that way about black people.. Lol pink pig
Check out Kendrick Lamar Section 80, FUCK YOUR ETHNICITY. Maybe all you fools can learn something.
you realize albino’s are black right? dumb fuck!
is this wet dog smelling pig still talking…? LOL.
First of all there are white albino’s too. And you both need to chill with that ignorant shit. So much hate over nothing. Just cause he’s white? How many white rappers can you name in a ratio to black rappers that are doing as big as them. Just Marshall really. And you can’t really be a serious hip hop fan dissin’ black folk like that on a hip hop site. Your trippin’.
I just threw out all of the stereotypes to sound as ignorant as this clown and all these other clowns on this HIPHOP Site that constantly spit out the reverse racism nonsense and saying that HipHop isn’t for white folk. Mean while most of you all don’t know shit about Hip Hop History. Hip Hop is a culture, the music is supposed to be meaningful to people, all people and make the move. We all have been through struggles, up and downs, none of you know what people go through on a daily regardless of race. And to all the cornball, white boys, on some wigga, wanna be thug, backwards hat wearin, salty lookin, cracker eatin, suckin on momys titties, oregano smokin, time to stop that shit and just be you. And stop the fist pumpin bullshit for crying out loud. And to everybody, can we put an end to the skinny jeans? I’d rather see some 70’s bell bottoms then the crack of your ass in your sisters jeans. Leave the tight pants to the females. I’m the futhest thing from racist, I get along with everybody. But I will spit some ignorant shit if I feel it’s necessary. I’m far from perfect. Fuck it, that’s life.
You fucktard, white people made Hip Hop so big, they supported black acts compared to you broke lowlives.
Beastie Boys too!….Dickhead!!!!!!
I remember this cat gettin’ booed in ATL at the Raekwon / CNN show
Man yall some true haters! Just mad that yall cant rap…. stay off homeboy DICK!!
http://soundcloud.com/caucasian
white cracka / kill whitey black power bullshit is going to be so bad for blacks that follow this- nazis will crush it to the ground decaying under satan hell on earth
who cares if he is white? he sucks ass.
No……the dude on your pic looks like HE sucks ass.
this is what is frustrating about hiphop today.. here is an artist who is getting recognition who doesnt make watered down pop songs like all the big artists of today, nicki minaj, weezy, big sean etc etc and yela STILL gets hated on.. yeah i can see if you dont like him, but atleast he is a part of a positive movement, not a sheep in the herd.. damn
White girls in the hook saying in their most drunken Buffy airhead voices, “I just want to party” and you don’t think its some sheep herd pop shit. If it isn’t now, give it time. He’s not the worst, but he ain’t that great. There are better white rappers that deserve more shine than him. Not gonna lie, some of his stuff is official, just not consistent.
I heard tha dude on several tracks he is far from whack shut yall hatin asses up,, eminem wouldnt even sign nobody whack..he heard yelawlf and then signed him..so get off the gas
EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES SO EM NEEDS TO FIX THIS AND DROP THIS WACK RAPPER
didn’t eminem sign 50cent wack as fuck and didn’t he also sign Trick Trick Horrible and wack as fuck don’t dickride Em just because he is commercial it’s not the 90’s anymore and 95% of Commercial rappers are wack as fuck.
Apathy, Celph Titled, Slug, Evidence, Ill Bill, Vinnie Paz, El-P, Slaine, Esoteric, Safe Francis, Grieves, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, Eyedea (R.I.P.), Kno, R.A. the Rugged Man and Action Bronson are all better than this dude.
actually celph titled is cuban, cuz if he was white, he wouldnt be saying nigga haha
Actually, he’s half and half.
omg otis thank you! i’m so glad you took the time to google are those names for us. thank you so much. now we can all listen to those guys be4 we ever listen to yela. thank you. faggot
Nice list Otis, anyways for me ethnicity doesn’t matter at all as long as its good music – demonstrating skill, lyrics, the ability to put it all together.
R.A. the rugged man is the dopest white rapper ever
Ya’ll got time to debate whose whack and whose commercial but most of yall dont even buy albums. you download em. Some of you do and kudos to you but its music, some like yelawolf, some don’t. If you part of those who don’t then don’t listen to him. Simple.
And Eminem is sitting on the Throne for hip-hop right now, still going strong for over 10 years, and he don’t get radio play. So if you hatin on Em your a misinformed idiot. How many rappers you know sold a million units in a day. Might be mistaken but it should be only three. Snoop, Eminem and then Weezy and I hate Weezy but he know how to make music.
Lastly, whoever called Eminem commercial is a dumba$$. He’s so commercial that he partners up with a former NWA members. Signed probably the best up and coming hip-hop group in Slaughterhouse and drops a bangin album with Royce in Bad Meets Evil. Hop off.
I agree with most of what you said except for the part where you claim slaughterhouse is the best up and coming group. They’ve been together for a good 3 years now and most of them individually have been rapping for over 10 years.
I’m sure he was relating to their careers.
hmm i wonder why yelawolf would get booed, except for the fact that hes wack lol
speaking of wack… who the fuck takes a pic of themself in a mirror with a camera phone whos not an 11 year old girl. ur wack homie. nice hat. new era fits are out but it does match ur ugly as tank top
Shit Mr Lewis, you just got owned!
LOL @ the underground kids that will sit there with a straight face and try to say any White rapper is better then Eminem
Lol, ainr that the truth.
Apathy fool
co-sign with ryan.. demigodz above eminem ANY day. vinnie paz, even slug, same goes for evidence (dialated peoples), AND slaine. but… cmon, even mc chris above yelawolf lmfao
wow, had no idea Vinnie Paz was white. Dude is sick, no question.
when he was alive, eyedea could rap circles around eminem. written or freestyle.
Eminem lost his mind
ur ugly
Yelawolf is a smart dude. And I respect the fact that he is giving some light to all the white rappers in the games that people just look over or compare them to Em. Hip Hop is universal.
was feelin that pop the trunk shit…his joint on madden 12 is aight too…all I can say is at least he respects the fuckin culture half you dudes dont even know the difference between hip hop and rap!
stop fuckin with retards like Gucci and ppl will like u….period
LOL word!
this dude is sick man.. all you haters that have nothing but negativity coming out of your mouths need to chill. this dude is unique, innovative, his flow is off the hook and his story telling skills are prevalent in his music. he doesn’t try to be something he’s not or sell you the cookie cutter bullshit you are all fed day in and day out on the radio (most of you are brainwashed to like mainstream music and don’t even know it, lol.. pathetic) anyway, this dude talks about the shit he does in his hometown and comes 100% real. whether it’s the trailers homes, chevys, crazy white girls, whatever.. he invites you to his town and he gives you the real. if you can appreciate this dudes originality then just stick to the money, hoes, etc. trash that you get on the radio all day. there’s a reason why Em fucks with Yelawolf. Think and use your mushed out brains, fools…
Right, because if I don’t like him or Eminimem means I like commercial pop hiphop. Well, you’re wrong mofo I don’t like either
If you search on Youtube, there’s this old interview for the Howard Stern show where Em is the guest after “My Name Is” dropped.
At the end some jackass calls in and calls him a One Hit Wonder. I wonder what that guy is doing with his life right now?
Maybe YW will blow up, maybe not but atleast he’s out there.
What are you haters doing with your life?
hey dude, respect 4 ya, good comment man
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Yelawolf is dope, period. Say what you say, motherfuckers!
Check out the Stereo mixtape. The dude is bringing his own story and twist to hip hop. A lot of his songs that are being pushed through hip hop sites are the worse ones. The track Billy Crystal is funny as hell and Kill my Nightmare is sick. He may not be the best rapper in the world but no one said he is. He is entertaining and not your typical run of the mill rapper. And if white people relate to white rappers being white on a track I respect that. Its a lot better than someone pretending to be part of a culture that they are not. Trying to relate to problems that they dont understand. Its about time we acknowledge the obvious without having to make it about racism. There is still race and there are differences and there is no reason to pretend that there is not.
I was sitting here for a half sec trying to justify this cats actions and statements, but I can’t.
What a fucking moron.
If I was Rae I’d be aproaching this arrogant/ moronic afterward.
And, yeah, I would.
Know who your opening for, in the city your doing it in, and how you do it. In short? Respect.
Just acknowledge the fact (as much as it pains even me) you already essentially have one gimmick working against you. Fucking banjos?!!! Please.
“I wish a mothafucka would…”
Yelawolf f. Raekwon
Check for it.
Lol.
Don’t know how to take that.
Checked it out last year. Meh. No replay value whatsoever for me.
And on a fair one tip… Wouldn’t hesitate. But wouldn’t iniatiate either.
You have to understand…I WANT to like a white rapper. ESPECIALLY one who wants to bring something new to the table. IMO he doesn’t.
Theres MAYBE 10 white rappers I happen to apreciate. And three of them are Beastie Boys.
YOURE A DOUCHE
Fuck this douche! He’s whack as fuck..
Fuck this craka white devil slave master, Black Power fo life son, KILL WHITEY!
Well if were all naming off white rappers then I have to throw Wax on here and those lyriscyde motherfuckers
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this jbird bitch
the best white rappers ever are Vanilla Ice and Marky mark the rest are wack