Yelawolf Quotes
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I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.
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You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
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Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.
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Entangled between a dream and a coma.
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Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.
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Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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My fans are like no other. Completely original people.
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Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.
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