Co-signed by everyone from Bun B and Slim Thug to Travis Barker, the similarly tatted up Yelawolf is the latest MC to try to bridge the gap between southern rap and country rock. But putting songs with titles like “Billy Crystal Meth” on your debut album for Interscope is definately more gully than good ole boy. URB caught the rising MC on tour with Wiz Khalifa and let him tell us about…everything.

On Trunk Muzik 0-60:
Basically, we’ve taken five of the fan favorites from Trunk Muzik and put them along with 0-60. We didn’t want to alienate the people that had fun with Trunk Muzik, know what I’m sayin’, the sound of it. We wanted to keep it consistent … keep the 808s and all that shit in. We went out and worked with Jim Jonsin on a record called “Billy Crystal Meth” and it’s fucking ill! We just kept it real gutter, know what I’m sayin’, just kept it going. The release is November 23rd and I’m signed with Interscope now.

And it’s just been a crazy ride, you know. We put out Trunk Muzik and a video for “Pop the Trunk”. Alongside the cosigns from Raekwon, Bun B, Juelz Santana, and Slim Thug, people really started turning heads and giving me a chance. When I got that opportunity, man, you know it started really making traction. People started connecting with it in a real way, you know. So I’m just so excited, man, to finally have touched on a project that’s connecting, you know, and I think it’s been a long road of bumping my head, man, you know, and doin’ records that didn’t connect and learning how to really carry my culture, you know, and carry my story instead of just getting on a record and rappin’ for the sake of rappin’. I mean, I feel like that the fans I’m making now are so deeply connected to it because there’s nothing materialist that they’re connecting with at all. It’s not the cars. It’s not clothes. It’s not hype. It’s something that they’re hearing in the lyrics and something in those songs that they connect with from their youth or their own story or even a story that they’re intrigued by, even if they can’t specifically relate to it they’re intrigued by the story of it, and that’s what I’ve always wanted so badly, you know what I’m sayin’? I’ve just wanted to express, man, you know, this crazy fucking life that I’ve lived. Single mom, 16, you know, fuckin’ full on, my mom was a rock star, you know what I’m saying? Cocaine, fucking biker parties and shit, you know? I grew up on a real crazy level around the music game, because my mom had dated people in the music industry, so you know, it’s like I was surrounded with young people, older than me obviously, but young people, so I saw a lot of crazy shit. Plus my mom’s a firecracker and alongside her, man, I just witnessed the life God intended me to see. And I’ve been so hungry to tell a story about it, you know. Music became that avenue. I’m a painter also. I’m a skateboarder. But music took a front seat. [Laughs] My managers call me Joe Dirt all the time because I got so many stories. And I don’t know whether it’s that I just remember them all or I do have a lot of crazy stories. I find myself in situations to this day that motherfuckers look at me like, ‘Damn man, every time we get with you we end up in a situation.’ In my opinion, it’s just an energy that God put in my life that involves situations and incidents for the sake of just telling a story. I mean, I believe that, you know what I’m saying? That’s my gift. Explaining it so that people can not have to deal with it, in a way. Or deal with it (period). Either way. Just come to one of my shows and wyle out.