Yelawolfs Radioactive

[cheeseburger]

I thought that we could discuss this now that were waiting for music and what not.
We all know Yelawolf made this album in an attempt to get into the mainstream. He and Willpower saw the success in Trunk Muzik and wanted to expand on that. They were new to the label situation and felt unsure about all the A&Rs walking in and out of the studio all the time.
Yelawolf have said several times that he blames himself for letting it happen, but that his deal with Interscope was that if this doesn't work, you will have to give me 100% creative momentum to do my own shit. It didn't work, and people thought He would get dropped or something.

Yelawolf on Intercope and Radioactive
http://youtu.be/JCSyngcxPoo?t=1m54s

Watch this! Willpower on the situation
http://youtu.be/EfSdl7TVeC8

But Interscope held their promise. Yelawolf sat down with Willpower and a bit with Malay and some other producers and influential people to make Love Story ( ). Not one single A&R or label affiliated person interfered in their sessions. A bunch of Interscope people including Paul Rosenberg flew over to Nashville when the album was already done to listen to it. Everyone was stoked and Interscope has opened their pockets for Yelawolf and things seem brighter this time around.

What I wanted to discuss whas; Which songs on Radioactive was the real deal, the songs Yela WANTED. And which songs where put there with prerecorded hooks, meant to hit the radio, not Yelas choice etc.

Bold = "fake" songs

1. "Radioactive Introduction"

2. "Get Away" (featuring Shawty Fatt & Mystikal)

3. "Let's Roll" (featuring Kid Rock)

4. "Hard White (Up in the Club)" (featuring Lil Jon)

5. "Growin' Up in the Gutter" (featuring Rittz)

6. "Throw It Up" (featuring Gangsta Boo & Eminem)

7. "Good Girl" (featuring Poo Bear)

8. "Made in the U.S.A" (featuring Priscilla Renea)

9. "Animal" (featuring Fefe Dobson)

10. "The Hardest Love Song in the World"

11. "Write Your Name" (featuring Mona Moua)

12. "Everything I Love the Most"

13. "Radio"

14. "Slumerican Shitizen" (featuring Killer Mike)

15. "The Last Song"

If we take these songs out and add the bonuses, its actually a pretty solid album.
Look at it

1. "Radioactive Introduction"

2. "In This World"

3. "Get Away" (featuring Shawty Fatt & Mystikal)

4. "Let's Roll" (featuring Kid Rock)

5. "Hard White (Up in the Club)" (featuring Lil Jon)

6. "Growin' Up in the Gutter" (featuring Rittz)

7. "I See You"

8. "Throw It Up" (featuring Gangsta Boo & Eminem)

9. "Animal" (featuring Fefe Dobson)

10. "Radio"

11. "Whip It"

12. "Slumerican Shitizen" (featuring Killer Mike)

13. "The Last Song"

[Emadyville]

what i never understood was why he didnt have a radio song that actually did anything. point being, if the label wanted that, they didnt even have a successful song. Also, I assume they would have wanted at least 2 that could get some solid radio play.

[cheeseburger]

I´ll add this. Some of the songs I took out of the list is actually good in my book. Like Write Your Name for example. I love it. The flow on the verses, the lyrics, the hook, the beat.

And Emadyville, I see what you mean. It looked like they put all hope into Lets Roll (fucking terrible song imo) and that Kid Rock would magiclly save everything.
Then when that didnt do shit they dropped the ball kinda. Thats how i felt.

[Notalius]

Made in the U.S.A is a great song. Should have been a single.

[cheeseburger]

Made in the U.S.A is a great song. Should have been a single.

I dont like it, but yeah, its a great song and perfect for radio.
But I still feel it was forced in some way.

[PAINKILLƎR]

Write Your Name is gr8

[cheeseburger]

Daaaaaamn I forgot about that song!! Gangsta of Love is fucking fire. Like damn. That last verse is so fucking bonkers

[Trimss]

Rolly, that's a fucking solid track list.

Fuck yeah.

[Notalius]

Made in the U.S.A is a great song. Should have been a single.

If the verses were longer, Id agree on it being great. Damn, what could've been

Or have one long Yelawolf verse and one long Em verse. Put someone like Rihanna on the hook and Yela is going platinum.

[TonyTilt]

I think "Good Girl" and "The Hardest Love Song In The World" were the only real 'forced' ones there.

I wish "No Hands" made the final tracklist.

I think so too

[TonyTilt]

Drinkin' hard liquor, brauds get on my level
I'm hotter than the bottom side of a whistlin' kettle
They threw a mountain at me, I got hit with a pebble
They sent me to hell, and I shit on the Devil
Try to bury my Chevy box but I won't buckle
And that's a deep hole bitch, bring a long shovel
Long gone, I'm grown up, and I'm gone cut you
With a chrome blade, if you wanna play, then holmes fuck you
Fuck you till you can't take a shit
Yeah I'm a fuck everybody, tsunami, better anchor the ship
Aim for the ankles and wrist, I came for the dangerous shit
I claimed to be named for the hits, the game is a chain that I grip
Slang from the pain of a trip it took to see Wayne in the whip
I became what I came to get the change for the change I give
A quarter for your thought, appreciate the contribution
Slumerican, I depreciate the Constitution
Alleviate the crew when, I leave a page in ruins
To each his own, I guess I own each and every room in

You read 'em, I'm bringin' back booklets and hookless, lyrics
So you can be certain just in case you didn't hear it
But what he says, come again? what is that?
Come to Earth, touchdown, I might be your runnin' back
Because you hollered, run it back
Stay cool enough to wear toboggans as a Summer hat
Steady on the drum I rap, hope there's no one under that

And not a crazy rhyme, but one of my favorite Yela lines:
-I've been raisin' hell, so I can make it to Heaven

This song is so dope. The mood it sets, the rhymes, the delivery...everything is awesome.

One of the best possible ways to start an album.

[cheeseburger]

LOOOOOVE that song man. Its so damn fire. The attitude so cocky without being corny.
Thats the thing with Yela. Try and tell me when he is being corny. You cant.

[Trimss]

The intro is fucking nuts.

[Jaba]

If they really want Yela to go mainstream, hav Eminem and Yela do a "radio" song together. Such as like a Niggaz in Paris. Or have them do something like… A popish song with rap vocals and then on the album do a hardcore rap song together as a non single.

[cheeseburger]

The only thing he should use to open up the mainstream lane is his singing capability.
When people hear just how good he is as an artist they will lose it.
He says hes not interested in that anymord but I doubt it.
Anyway, I would love more singing from him. Hes so good he can almost turn me homosexual with his voice. Im sitting there like when his part comes on in Outlaw Shit.