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Jay Rock’s record deal is the most complex out of his fellow group members. First, he was signed to Warner Bros. With Warner Bros, he made a song with Wayne, All My Life. Kendrick and the rest of Black Hippy had a good feeling that they would ride the coattails of Jay Rock’s success. But, the album with Warner Bros never materialized, thus prompting Jay Rock to move to Strange Music, Tech N9ne’s label. He was eventually able to drop his debut album, Follow Me Home, but that album flopped, hard. An album featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Chris Brown and has production from JUSTICE League and Cool and Dre should not debut at #83 on the Billboard chart. Thus, TDE had to scramble once again to gain some sort of buzz.

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have you actually talked to any southern OGs

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This song contains samples from Big Pimpin', especially during the chorus

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G Rap got ambitious and sped away with the drugs and the money he feels he deserves, after risking his life day after day for his boss. He’s now rich, but he also made a ton of dangerous enemies.

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This sounds like some straight Grand Theft Auto type shit. He only got a pistol yet he’s droppin' niggas like he got lock-on aim or something

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2 Live Crew is an influential hip-hop group from the 80s. Their music was known to be fun-filled and rather sexual for the time. Bigga also references Rap-a-Lot Records, a Houston hip-hop label that is immensely influential for Southern hip-hop, and responsible for acts such as the Geto Boys, Devin the Dude, Scarface, Big Mello and many others in the late 80s and especially during the 90s.

In his interview with Joe Rogan, Mike explained that 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell, who set an important precedent by beating a highly publicized obscenity charge by the Southern District of Florida, was a formative influence of his,

…because in my lifetime I saw Luther Campbell and [Penthouse founder] Larry Flynt fight the government on behalf of the American people’s right to say whatever they wanted to say. So, at the same time, in my formative years, I was learning to love the Bill of Rights and the Preamble to the United States Constitution I got a chance to see people fighting for my right, and I couldn’t wait to be a rapper, just so I could curse and buy my own titty books, you know, and those people have shaped my life in terms of love of freedom and liberties as much as a Thurgood Marshall, you know, as much as a Barbara Jordan, as much as a Shirley Chisholm.

Mike also dropped a reference to 2 Live Crew on Run the Jewels' cut “Love Again.”

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Michael Wayne Atha (b. December 30, 1979), better known by his stage name Yelawolf, is a rapper from Gadsden, Alabama. He was in the 2011 XXL Freshmen Class. Yelawolf has been signed to Columbia, Ghet-O-Vision, DGC, Shady Records, and currently, he’s independent.

Yelawolf first got started back in 2005, when he released his first album, Creek Water. In 2007, he got signed to Columbia and released his first single “Kickin'”. He went to Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment and released an EP and four mixtapes. The last mixtape he released, Trunk Muzik finally got the attention it deserved at the beginning of 2010. He signed with Interscope shorty later and released a retail version, Trunk Muzik 0-60.

A short while later, he met with Eminem, which eventually led to Em signing Yelawolf, forming Shady 2.0 (with Slaughterhouse).

Finally, he released his debut album, Radioactive in November of 2011. He significantly changed his style to gain more mainstream appeal for the album. But after disappointing sales, Yela recently decided to switch back to his old style, with Trunk Muzik Returns, as well a collaborative EP with Travis Barker, called Psycho White.

His second release on Shady and also his most celebrated album combining his adept technical rap skills with a focus on Rock and Country sounds, Love Story dropped on April 21, 2015. The album did relatively well, peaking at number 3 on the US Billboard 200, and was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 units on June 8, 2018 (With two over 1 million sold Platinium certified singles, Best Friend Ft. Eminem and Till it’s Gone by October 29, 2019).

On October 27, 2017, he released his next album, Trial By Fire entirely produced by himself with more roots of Country based on storytelling and the recurring themes of Yelawolf’s hardships, fears, and overall messages about his worldview. The album was released with little promotion and was seen as a commercial selling failure compared to Love Story, but was better received by critics.

Yelawolf announced the third Trunk Muzik series album, labeled Trunk Muzik 3, as his final album with Shady Records, released on March 29, 2019, and has been acclaimed and garnered him a strong following in the hip hop community. Months later, following the release of Trunk Muzik 3, he released Ghetto Cowboy on November 1st, which served as his independent release with his record brand, Slumerican.

2021 for Yelawolf was a hell of a year. After highly working on 2020, on February 19, 2021, Yelawolf released Yelawolf Blacksheep, an 11-track mixtape with fellow rapper Caskey. Yelawolf revealed his upcoming April Onslaught event, in which he announced four album releases in April 2021, to be released weekly, leading to his studio album, Mud Mouth. In order, the releases were TURQUOiSE TORNADO with rapper RiFF RAFF, released on April 9th. Slumafia with DJ Paul, April 16th. Mile Zero with DJ Muggs, April 23rd and finally April 30th release, his 7th studio album Mud Mouth as his last hip hop album.

Yelawolf continued his musical journey to a new chapter by exposing his first rock and roll album named Sometimes Y, which is released on March 11, 2022. Yelawolf teamed up with Shooter Jennings and his bandmates as a rock n' roll band with release of their self-titled debut studio album.

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Looks like Joell’s uncle shot up heroin into his body using needles, which could potentially give him HIV/AIDS if he’s sharing the needle (which he likely was). Finally, his uncle sobered up. His aunt on the other hand could potentially have gotten AIDS from him, but somehow wasn’t infected.

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Cee-Lo Green began his career with Goodie Mob. Cee Lo collaborated with Slaughterhouse, singing the hook on My Life

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XOXO stands for hugs and kisses, but Q don’t do that with them hoes. He still got some Ecstasy (X) pills and ounces (O) of weed

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