“I felt the connection, these kids had the same problems that I had at home. “When I lived in Antioch, they’d bus us down to the projects in Nashville to go to school and everything just started clicking with me with rap music and in life,” Yelawolf said. While trying to stay afloat in a turbulent home life addled by drug and alcohol abuse, he discovered rap music in Tennesee and it soon became an obsession, along with the classic rock (Lynard Skynard, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers) that he was raised on. Born Michael Wayne Atha to an absentee father and a bartender mother, he attended over 15 schools while soaking up slang and spiritualism in Baton Rouge, Antioch, Tennessee, and Atlanta. He claims Gadsden, but he’s from everywhere. Call him Catfish Billy or Yelawolf, just don’t go make him go pop the trunk on you.Įnter Yelawolf’s Alabama-a backwoods badlands of sinners and salvation. Southern Pine trees, smoking pine, and pine boxes. ![]() ![]() Envision a humid world of slow-rolling Monte Carlos and slaughter houses meth labs and rusting Mossberg’s, inked up arms and haircuts that look like they’ve been chopped by hatchets.
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