![]() “You mentioning, William, Struggle… His birthday party… I went to his birthday party, let’s say it was on a Sunday, right?” Yelawolf broke down for Outsider. By June 2020, things started to open a bit more, but in the shadow of George Floyd’s murder. They wanted to record in April 2020, but everything was closed. But, with Yelawolf out of his deal, and Jennings in the middle of his new career outside of solo music, it seemed like a perfect time to do the record. Still, he wanted to cut a record with Yelawolf. Soon, he was producing Grammy-winning hits with Brandi Carlile, putting Tanya Tucker back on the map, and more. First with Jason Boland & The Stragglers on Dark and Dirty Mile. However, soon after 2010, Shooter leaned into producing. Much like Marshall Mathers did with his aforementioned label. Yelawolf would stay with Shady Records until 2019 when he decided to go independent and focus on his Slumerican label and brand. Shooter Jennings, son of the late Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, opens for Toby Keith during the “Big Throwdown II” tour Saturday at the Hyundai Pavilion in Devore. Culminating in his 2015 hit record Love Story. Meanwhile, Yelawolf was about to sign with Shady Records and go on a run of albums that solidified him as a genre-bending hip-hop artist. ![]() I was playing in Atlanta in like 2009 or 10 because we were doing Black Ribbons, I know that.”īlack Ribbons didn’t pan out how Jennings wanted. “My nephew Struggle, introduced me to him. From collaborations with Yela to going to jail for a number of years and then rebirthing his music career after. Born a little later than his uncle in 1980, Struggle, or William as Yelawolf calls him, has lived an interesting life. That connection is Struggle Jennings, nephew of Shooter. Those that have been following Yelawolf’s career since the early years know the connection between the southern rapper and Shooter Jennings. ‘Sometimes Y’ Got Started with a Little Bit of Struggle So, how did it end up happening? How does a kid from a trailer park in Alabama and the son of Outlaw Country royalty come together to put out one of the best rock albums that has been produced in years? Well, family, of course. It was that variety and that era of experimentation musically that inspires the music behind Sometimes Y. We saw Metallica ‘One’ and we also saw, like, NWA at their height.” He said we were really lucky because we got the 70s rock, 80s into the golden era of rap, and grunge. “Everyone watched ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ and ‘ Headbangers Ball‘, you know? … Yelawolf said this the other day. ![]() Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Yo! MTV Raps Intro A () ![]()
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