TheSource.com recently got a chance to sit down with Yelawolf to speak about plans for the rest of 2012 into 2013. The Trunk Muzik MC opened up about a few frustrations he has with todays Hip-Hop. He also noted that both Psycho White and Trunk Muzik Returns are completed.
Let's talk about where all these projects are. What's the status on Psycho White?
Psycho White is good. All the hard work is being wrapped up and shit. So that should be dropping...Actually I think that's next up. That will be the next thing people hear, is the Psycho White project. Then after Psycho White, Trunk Muzik Returns and then probably after that Country Cousins, and then going on into 2013 it will be Love Story. But yeah, Psycho White is next.
You have a busy studio schedule ahead of you.
Well, Psycho White is done and of course Heart of Dixie is already out and Trunk Muzik Returns is half way done. Country Cousins is the only one that's not done. But you know when you're working with someone that you really vibe with it goes by pretty quickly.
Any updates on how Psycho White is going to be released? I know you were talking recently about the Travis Barker situation, has all of that been sorted out?
Yah, that's going to be available for sale, I believe. Now they just have to figure out how they want to distribute it. I'm not sure exactly where because Travis [Barker] has a bunch of places where he could put it, like Famous Stars and Straps, it could be in any of those places I imagine. On top of record stores and on to his own stores. But its definitely going to be distributed soon.
I'm starting to notice skateboarding is starting to be infused again in Hip-Hop. I know a lot of people have seen it in the past, but you come from a heavy skateboarding background. Does it ever get you mad when you see artists just adapting to this skateboarding kind of look and everything?
Yeah, well, I definitely come from an era when it wasn't cool. I've been skateboarding my whole life. I started skateboarding when I was six years old and I stayed hard with it. No matter what music I was listing to I was always skateboarding. The style and dress of it has always been influential in sow kind of way. You picture me in like Airwalk 540s and going to school in the projects and getting clowned. It just wasn't cool. I was a skateboarder, especially in the South. I used to get hype like late 90s to 2000s, like if I saw De La Soul with a skate shirt on, I would get mad hyped, or if I saw (?) at a skate contest I would be so hyped about it. and it was like, "I told you!". When I was first coming in I was skateboarding and I had my skateboard. It's really been these past three years that it has really gone to this bullshit and its shameful. People getting away with murder with skateboarding. I think it goes with the whole culture in general. Skateboarders, all these white rappers getting away with murder. Its like who is the referee in this? You can't just come into this game and exploit it. That's not what this is. Hip Hop and skateboarding has so much in common because of the grind of it all, and coming up, you know how you get on, and coming from the streets. I've always seen the turn around in it because i've done both things, and they have so much in common as far as the growth. Now they have this same thing in common as totally (fucking) the culture up. Everyone is just getting away with everything. That has to do with over saturation of free footage of skateboarding online and free music online. Kids will go out to a spot and shoot a line and boom there it is. Kids will go to the studio, drop a verse, and put it out and there it is. There's no mystery. Its everyone's game. People are hiding behind some mediocre skill level and they don't have any story, they don't have any style, they don't have shit. They can just do a trick. People can do a skateboarding trick and like, "So what? You're lame." People can rap. So what, you're a cornball. There's no rules to this anymore. That's the most annoying part in the world to me.
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