Zitat des Tages von Yelawolf:
I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
Race is still real and you got to recognize it.
The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.
I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
My fans are like no other. Completely original people.
You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.