Aside from both being tatted up like nobody’s business, Yelawolf and Travis Barker now have something else in common: they have been in the studio working together. Yesterday, ‘Wolf met up with Travis at his recording studio on the left coast to knock out some new material.

Whether any of the magic they whip up together will be on his future album is still unknown, but with Barker’s unholy ability to smash drums coupled with the way that Yela’s creative process has changed in the past few months (by basically “mind-writing” songs bar for bar instead of writing rhymes down on paper), the world is definitely listening.

“I’ve been off the paper,” says Yelawolf. “It’s dope man. I thought it would be harder to do the flippin’ shit, with the double time, but …