Michael Wayne Atha, also known as the rapper Yelawolf, was born in Gadsen Alabama, thirty miles north of the famed Talladega Superspeedway racetrack. He grew up on a steady diet of hip hop and skateboarding, and turned to music full time after a series of injuries shut the door on his professional boarding career. It is no wonder then that skateboards, cars and Southern living feature heavily in Yelawolf's menacing, blazing staccato flows. Although he was briefly signed with Columbia Records, Yelawolf and his Ghet-O-Vision crew have charted an independent course, dropping a handful of EPs and mixtapes including 2010's Trunk Muzik, which features heavy-hitters like Bun B and Juelz Sanatana. Starting to pick up steam for SXSW, Yelawolf spoke about escaping a blue collar life, mullet-hawks and the allure of the 1979 box Chevy Caprice.
Via spinner.com
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