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Box Chevy 3 Yelawolf (Ft. Rittz) – Box Chevy 3
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This is the third of Yelawolf’s series devoted to his baby.

It appears on the mixtape Trunk Muzik and was released on his album Trunk Muzik 0-60

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Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised Gil Scott-Heron – Introduction / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Small Talk at 125th and Lenox Version)
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The 1960s was a period of mass upheaval in modern history. In a post-war society, people were coming to grips with changes in feminist thought and racial thought, and the Civil Rights movement was taking root. Furthermore, mass media began entering the homes of citizens like never before. Gil-Scot Heron’s poem opens with a warning against mindlessly ingesting this media like a drug. Those expecting to be able to turn off or switch the channel on this ‘revolution’ won’t be able to.

This is one of the most famous lines in rap history. Many rappers, particularly ‘conscious rappers’ point to Scott-Heron as a major influence. An example of this is Public Enemy using the line in “Countdown to Armageddon” on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

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Scott-Heron further elaborated on the initial meaning of the phrase in an episode of “The 90’s raw”, a series of brief recordings made by producer, filmmaker, camera journalist Skip Blumberg. In the clip we can hear the author saying:

That was about the fact the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So, when we say that the revolution will not be televised, we were saying that […] the thing that is going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It’ll just be something that you see, and all of a sudden you realize – ‘I’m on the wrong page, or I’m on the right page, but on the wrong note and I’ve got to get in sync with everyone else to understand what’s happening in this country’.

In other words, for Scott-Heron the idea of revolution not being televised was more optimistic in a way. One can say it was about the idea that people will feel when the revolution’s coming and will join since they will feel. No transmitter needed, no television in order to tell people to stand up and fight. What’s going around will tell people to rise and fight, because you can’t wait for any longer.

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Brick in the Wall Yelawolf – Brick in the Wall
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This is the first track on Yelawolf’s mixtape Stereo: A Hip-Hop Tribute to Classic Rock. On the tape, Yela puts his own spin on a number of sacred classic rock songs by legends Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Doors, AC/DC, and others. Yela’s creative genius comes through as he applies the words and melodies of these well-known classic rock songs to complete different situations and meanings.

Yelawolf presents his views on hip-hop today, particularly attacking the rap played on radio stations in his home of Alabama and around the country.

This song features instumental samples and lyrically interpolations from the Pink Floyd song Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZmKbe5oG4

This song parallels the idea from “Another Brick in the Wall”, suggesting people have let themselves support something that takes from their individuality by playing and emulating radio hits, just as Roger Waters once pointed the finger at the public school system for.

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Damn, it's a trip how a nigga could switch so quick Eazy-E (Ft. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta) – Real Muthaphuckkin G's
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In tandem with the next line. Eazy pokes fun at the younger Dre, claiming that he was soft, even a crossdresser, and then all of a sudden became an OG in his new material.

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Well I stopped in Michigan with Eminem Yelawolf – Alabama Gotdamn
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Eminem is infamously from Detroit, Michigan. Yelawolf is known to be a huge fan of Slim Shady, which is awesome for him because he just got signed by his favorite rapper to Interscope’s Shady Records.

According to Yela’s count, THIS is state number 13… Makes sense that Eminem would be. He is evil. Detroit is Amityville, aka HELL.

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She told me to take my state of ware with me Yelawolf – Alabama Gotdamn
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There are two possible meanings for this:

  1. Yela’s mom probably told him to take his “awareness” or “state of awareness” with him, as in his mental state, helping him survive in a tough world (which might also be why she threw him in the swamp)

  2. This is also the most likely location of the state name “Delaware”. The “state of ware” or state DE LA WARE (of the ware). “de la” means “of the” in Spanish. State three?

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“She told me to take my state EVERYWHERE with me”…Yela reps Bama in all 50 states

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I'mma take this Crimson Tide banner Yelawolf – Alabama Gotdamn
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The Crimson Tide is the name of the sports teams for the University of Alabama, a symbol of ‘bama pride that Yela often rocks.

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[Sample: Nina Simone] Yelawolf – Alabama Gotdamn
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This song sample’s Nina Simone’s protest song “Mississippi Goddam”

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Alabama Gotdamn Yelawolf – Alabama Gotdamn
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Yelawolf dropped this track on March 22nd, 2011. It will be featured on his debut album for Shady Records, Radioactive, to be released this summer. He was signed along with Slaughterhouse as part of “Shady Records 2.0”, the new round of artists Eminem is working on in the lab.

Prior to moving back to Alabama with his mother and step-father, Yelawolf was a vagabond, walking and hitchhiking across the country. This song, while at times crunching a lot of states into one line, is likely mostly based on the Alabama rapper’s real life journeys. Yela’s masterful wordplay is exhibited, as he tries to name all 50 states in one song and make as many of them into double entendre’s as possible.

While some think his redneck absentmindedness caused him to leave out the state of Delaware, it is quite possible that it is meant to be included as a double entendre early in the first verse. We tend to doubt he would be so careless about the very core of the track.

The track and beat sample Nina Simone’s classic protest anthem “Mississippi Goddam”, in which the chorus actually states “Alabama’s gotten me so upset”.

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Took a knife to the back when I turned around to help somebody close Yelawolf – Kill My Nightmare (Friday The 13th)
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Backstabber!

Friends are people that you think are your friends…

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