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Coachella: Yelawolf

Coachella: Yelawolf

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We hang out with hip-hop artist, Yelawolf at The Music Lounge at IndiOasis.

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Young Hollywood

Welcome to YoungHollywood. com What's up, Young Hollywood and Ray Ban, it's Michelle Marie, we're here at the Music Lounge at Indi Oasis.

Young Hollywood

I'm here with Yelawolf, we're going to take a little walk.

Young Hollywood

This is the line for the bare, can we bypass the line?

Young Hollywood

Let's do it.

Young Hollywood

This is what stars do.

Yelawolf

Misfit Lab in the back and the cracks smoke pills through the streets, like an only one in fog. Mama's in the slaughterhouse with the hatchet, given dead meat, chopped early morning hog. I'm catching Z's like an early morning saw, when I woke up to the racket, young and pause.

Young Hollywood

I love that Coachella, there are so many rare finds out there. Are there any bands that you think are rare find that you're looking out for this weekend?

Yelawolf

Um, yeah, yeah. My homey clever played me some shit and craze on the way here, these cats from South Africa.

Young Hollywood

I think I heard about that.

Yelawolf

Yeah, man. They were nuts that I'm trying to see. I wanna see MGMT.

Young Hollywood

MGMT.

Young Hollywood

There's a band called The Freelance Whales that I heard for the first time outside by Southwest.

Yelawolf

Well, I heard them first at the Harvester Hope Festival. And I heard them again outside by Southwest, they're retarded.

Young Hollywood

When did you first get into hip-hop? Have you always had this inside of you since you were a young kid?

Yelawolf

Yeah, I'm an extremist, so like, once I decide that I want to try to do something, I'll just go fully in with it, you know. When I wanna, you know, just from being little and even like playing T-ball, but just completely knowing that I would be a pro baseball player one day. So it's just that.

Young Hollywood

Make it happen.

Yelawolf

Yeah, eventually just finding out what I'm really, where my true talent is, you know. Which for me was writing, you know what I'm saying? I got a four by trucker specifically Southern Lu, I slugged on the chevy, broke up to bust your bubble. Fuck your mother, don't lie to your brother. You know yellow's trouble, call the police. Look at these bleeding knuckles. Alabama's elephant feet rumble. Get pounded and beat underneath the concrete like a street plumber.

Young Hollywood

If you were to pick a rare find in your closet, what would you have in your closet you could tell us about that no one else you think has?

Yelawolf

I got some shit that no one, absolutely no one has. I have a Walmart windbreaker from like 1980 something, it was a stat jacket. Actually, I wore it to, you ever been to Miami?

Young Hollywood

I have been to Miami.

Yelawolf

You been to like a Preve Mansion? I wore my jacket into those clubs. Um, needless to say, I got some looks, of course. I got some looks. But I was the only motherfucker in there with a Walmart jacket. I got this piece right here. This place called Alabama Trade Day. Every Sunday there's a Trade Day, there's like 1500 random Alabamians up on the mountain, trading fake gold and guns.

Young Hollywood

That is a rare find. No one else will know about that. Now, let me talk about your haircut. Can we see your hair?

Yelawolf

Yeah, yeah. I mean like, music and fashion go hand in hand. I mean, I just decided one day I wanted a mullet hawk. And so, I went to the bathroom with the fucking hair clippers and got it done. This is all me, buddy.

Young Hollywood

This is all you.

Yelawolf

Yelawolf, kicking it with my homeys at Young Hollywood and Ray-Ban. By the way, I need some more Ray-Ban glasses, so, you know what I'm saying? For this, I'm gonna need a sick pair of wayfarers. Holler back, y'all!

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Yelawolf

    Featured artist and interviewee

  • Michelle Marie

    Interviewer from Young Hollywood

  • Clever

    Friend who introduced Yelawolf to new music

  • MGMT

    Band Yelawolf wanted to see at Coachella

  • The Freelance Whales

    Band Yelawolf discovered and enjoyed

FAQ

Who is Yelawolf?+
Yelawolf is a hip-hop artist who was interviewed at The Music Lounge at IndiOasis during Coachella.
What bands was Yelawolf excited to see at Coachella?+
Yelawolf was looking forward to seeing MGMT and a band called The Freelance Whales, who he had previously heard at Harvester Hope Festival and South by Southwest.
How did Yelawolf get into hip-hop?+
Yelawolf describes himself as an extremist, fully committing to hip-hop once he decided he wanted to pursue it, eventually realizing his talent was in writing.
What is the story behind Yelawolf's haircut?+
Yelawolf decided he wanted a "mullet hawk" one day and cut it himself with hair clippers in the bathroom.
What is a unique item Yelawolf owns?+
Yelawolf owns a Walmart windbreaker from the 1980s that no one else has, and he also mentioned finding unique items at Alabama Trade Day.

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