Scoremore Presents: Slumerican Tour Yelawolf
Sat. 09/29 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (map)
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Envision a humid world of slow-rolling Monte Carlos and slaughter houses; meth labs and rusting Mossberg’s, inked up arms and haircuts that look like they’ve been chopped by hatchets. Trunk Muzik. Southern Pine trees, smoking pine, and pine boxes. Call him Catfish Billy or Yelawolf, just don’t go make him go pop the trunk on you.
Enter Yelawolf’s Alabama—a backwoods badlands of sinners and salvation. He claims Gadsden, but he’s from everywhere. Born Michael Wayne Atha to an absentee father and a bartender mother, he attended over 15 schools while soaking up slang and spiritualism in Baton Rouge, Antioch, Tennessee, and Atlanta. While trying to stay afloat in a turbulent home life addled by drug and alcohol abuse, he discovered rap music in Tennessee and it soon became an obsession, along with the classic rock (Lynard Skynard, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers) that he was raised on.
“When I lived in Antioch, they’d bus us down to the projects in Nashville to go to school and everything just started clicking with me with rap music and in life,” Yelawolf said. “I felt the connection, these kids had the same problems that I had at home. And the weed, the dope...”
His music is a new strain of soul food, the traditional Southern cuisine that fortified the Dungeon Family, 8ball & MJG and UGK, but infused by Yela’s unique experiences as a cross-country vagabond with no place to call home. And, of course, his unparalleled ability to snap off double-timed staccato raps unlike anything you’ve ever heard.Saturday, September 29
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Emo's
$23.00
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AustinChronicle on Yelawolf @ Emo's
8 months agoYelawolf / Wu-Block SEPT. 29 Emos East and Beauty Ballroom put on their wildest hip-hop medley since the venue migrated to East Riverside last year. At Emos, Alabama trunk muzik banger Yelawolf tops a bill that includes Georgian hairball Rittz and Brooklyn party boy Trouble Andrew. A few doors down, Wu-Tang blood brothers Raekwon and Ghostface Killah team with the LOXs Jadakiss and Sheek Louch for the newly minted wrecking crews Oct. 9 Wu-Block LP. Chase Hoffberger more at austinchronicle.com
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