Michael Wayne Atha (born December 30, 1979), better known by his stage name Yelawolf, is an American rapper. He is currently signed to Eminem's Shady Records label.
Atha was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is of Caucasian and Cherokee descent. He competed on the 2005 reality series The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott. In a December 2010 interview with Canadian music website Exclaim!, he stated that his inspiration to
break into hip-hop was OutKast's André 3000.
He has a wife and 2 kids, as confirmed by himself. He currently lives in Gadsden, Alabama.
Yelawolf signed to Columbia Records in 2007, but was released from the label the same year. In 2010, he made a guest appearance on Bizarre's Friday Night at St. Andrews, as well as albums by Big Boi, Paul Wall, and Juelz Santana. His mixtape, Trunk Muzik 0-60, was his first project with a major label, and was released on November 22, 2010 under Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment and Interscope Records. yelawolf currently has a very nice mullet. Yelawolf is also a vivid Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club fan.
Yelawolf was featured on the cover of XXL's March 2011 issue, alongside Eminem and fellow new Shady Records signings Slaughterhouse. His first studio album in six years, Radioactive, is scheduled for release in March. Bio from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelawolf
- Albums
- Creek Water (2005)
- Radioactive (2011)
- EPs
- Arena Rap (2008)
- Mixtapes
- Ball of Flames: The Ballad of Slick Rick E. Bobby (2008)
- Stereo (2008)
- Trunk Muzik (2010)
- Trunk Muzik 0-60 (2010)
- Trunk Muzik Wuz Here: Country Cu$$inz (2011) – with Big K.R.I.T.
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