His signing to the label was announced in 2011, and by the end of the year his official debut, Radioactive, had landed. In 2010, an appearance on Bizarre's album Friday Night at St Andrews became an early sign that the rapper was aligning himself with Eminem's Shady label and its family of artists. Newly inspired, he worked to build an audience for himself via MySpace and mixtapes.
Disillusioned with life on a major label, he returned to the underground rap scene. He subsequently made the jump to Sony BMG for the release of a promotional single, "Kickin'" (2007). The nom de plume of Alabama native Michael Wayne Atha, Yelawolf emerged in 2005 with a dynamic style and flow, and lyrics that drew inspiration from rural poverty and Southern Gothic imagery, themes he continued to explore on subsequent outings like Love Story (2015) and Ghetto Cowboy (2019).īorn in Gadsden, Alabama, Yelawolf made his full-length album debut with the independent release Creekwater (2005). Part of Eminem's Shady label, Yelawolf is an underground rapper from a small town in the South who found major-label success in 2011 with the release of the album Radioactive.
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