Mydailyjoe Feature: Yelawolf with Jonathan Hay
A little while back, Celebrity Publicist and Author / Journalist, Jonathan Hay got to sit down with Yelawolf — an artist blowing up quickly and signed to Eminem’s Shady Records. Here is there little quick chat for this MydailyJoe exclusive interview that was arranged by the good people over at Ghetto-Vision (with assistance of this interview by Greta).
MDJ: For the recording you’re doing now, is that pretty much in one studio or are you recording everywhere?
YelaWolf: We’re at Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta. One of the best studios on the planet.
MDJ: Absolutely. I know Groove Chambers and Mali up there.
YelaWolf: You already know Sweetwater on tap.
MDJ: Absolutely.
YelaWolf: That’s just like a tiny bit of . The people treat you like royalty and you can just make any, you can record any style you want to there.
MDJ: Are you doing anything with Groove?
YelaWolf: I hopped on a remix with Groove Chambers for his album. He’s got a single called “In The Bag” that’s out and I hopped on the remix with him and did another record called “Need Somebody To Love” that I don’t know what’s going to happen with it. It’s dope. Groove’s an old homie of mine. I’ve known him for like 5 years.
MDJ: So you’re familiar with Nappy Roots then, of course..
YelaWolf: They came through the studio. We did a record also.
MDJ: [In one of our other published interviews we did together] You mentioned how much passion you have for performing live? What does your stage show consist of now? What do you envision it would be? You like to do a whole big band? What is your vision now and in the future?
YelaWolf: I went from, in Atlanta, just straight raging to mosh pit raging. Just drunken maniac. To like now, it’s evolved to where I’m more about performing the record as perfectly as I can and letting the music and the song translate the energy, instead of me drop kicking some stranger from the front row. I used to do anything just to keep the party going. Now I‘m more about the record.
I’ve went from rocking with the full band with Arena Rap to Trunk Muzik, being the music that it is, rocking with a DJ. In the future, I just see merging those two things and bringing the full band back. I never want to lose the hip hop aspect of my show. No matter how big it gets, no matter how big the stage show gets. There’s always going to be the moment in my show where it’s going to be me and the DJ. I think that’s so dope. That’s a page out a Beastie Boys’ book. That comes from watching them and seeing how dope that is, to seeing rock with a full band. Killing the DJ. Just getting bigger, man. Bigger records, bigger shows. I’m a big fan of theatrics, I can see like pulling a box Chevy on stage and burning rubber or some shit.
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