Top 51 Yelawolf Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

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#4. I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

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#5. I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

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#6. 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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#7. You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

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#8. Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

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#9. 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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#10. I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

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#11. It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

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#12. How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

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#13. Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

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#14. 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

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#15. I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

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#16. My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

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#17. Race is still real and you got to recognize it.

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#18. 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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#19. This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

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#20. 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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#21. I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

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#22. 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. The best part of performing is the people. I love interacting with people. My favorite part is the crowd. I love rocking out with the crowd, that's definitely the best part.

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#30. Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.

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#31. Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

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#32. Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. Entangled between a dream and a coma.

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#36. 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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#37. I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

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#38. 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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#39. My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

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#40. Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

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#45. 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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#46. Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

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#47. Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

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#48. 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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#49. 1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy

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#50. Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

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#51. American music culture is black culture.

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