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Yelawolf Covers FADER

Posted on September 30th, 2010
by
Karen


2010 has been good to Catfish Billy. On the first day of the year, he dropped Trunk Muzik along with DJ Burn One. And as we prepare to head into the tenth month of the year, it is still one of the better projects (album or mixtape) to drop this year. Touring alongside part-time renaissance man/full-time weed smoker Wiz Khalifa has exposed the guy to an entire new legion of fans.

The flow is one of a kind and from meeting the guy once, he’s one of the most humble people in the game. With all those compliments, it’s great to see Yela land on the cover of FADER alongside East London group Trash Talk for the 70th issue.

To both of these artists, place has been an important theme in their careers, Alabama especially figuring into the career of catfish rapper Yelawolf, an undeniable force whose quick diction and mudflap haircut are going to worm their way into the hearts of many, many different types of people. As you may know, rap is the new pop (by new, we mean the last 20 years minimum), and that’s basically the time folks like Yelawolf have grown up, this self-proclaimed redneck running through his tracks with a predilection for gross glamor, Chevys and Xanax. We didn’t fish him up from the bottom of the swamp, he came up for air himself, but he knows where he’s from. That’s why we went there.

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