DUCK DOWN: Buckshot brings the heat at East Atlanta Icehouse
There’s something to be said about hip-hoppers that don’t have to worry about going to work in the morning. Maybe it’s that Johnny Kemp “Just Got Paid” syndrome. Maybe it’s the cheap PBR. Whatever. Last night, heads were clearly more than ready to shake that load off at day two of the A3C Festival — and the energy was electric.
For today’s Roll Call we call out Yelawolf.
Who are you?
Yelawolf.
Describe yourself in three words.
Work, working, worked.
Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Jesus.
Who would you most like to slap in the face?
Girls slap people.
What song do you wish you had written?
I only have songs I wish I didn’t write.
Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Who the hell is Elvis Presley?
LP, CD or MP3?
Live show.
If you could start one trend, what would it be?
To stop trends.
If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Starting trends
With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
The last bottle I saw spinning gave someone a concussion.
Yela Wolf plays a CD release party at Lenny’s tonight (Fri., Dec. 12th) for his latest EP, Arena Rap. Adult Film Stars, Lee Harvey Oswald, Hollyweerd and Rittz also perform. FREE 9 p.m.
(Photo courtesy of Yelawolf ).
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Saturday, Oct. 8
Near the end of the scheduled seven-hour Atlanta Indie Music Festival on Saturday night, I experienced an epiphany: Hipster girls have zero booty meat.
No, that ain’t it. Just one observation among many made as I stood in the half-full parking lot adjacent to the Bench, watching trains crawl by at 5 mph in the backdrop while some of Atlanta’s finest took the stage in 40 degree weather.
Soon after the smell of hot skunk wafted into the crowd from the fire set in an industrial-strength drum by a member of Mach 5, it struck me. Hip-hop needs air to breathe. Never before had Supreeme seemed so precocious, as Shaka performed “The Best Years” shirtless. And Hollyweerd celebrated its one-year anniversary by striking a balance between controlled and chaotic, perhaps for the first time.
Still, the music (Gripplyaz, Jaspects, Mike Flo, Señor Kaos, Yelawolf, Newberry Jam, Flyy Academy, Kidz in the Hall, Brittany Bosco, etc.) was secondary to the family reunion vibe. For all the talk of Atlanta’s emerging rap scene being too trendy, it was inspiring to see the next generation lose its cool.
Now somebody please feed those skinny girls some chicken.
(Photo by Alan Friedman)
YelaWolf is an of-the-moment type of dude. He’s supposed to be talking about the influence his Gadsden, Ala., roots have had on his music, but after a couple of minutes of storytelling, with the last anecdote recalling the days he spent as a fisherman in Alaska, he pauses. “Wait, what the hell did you even ask me?”
