Yelawolf will drop his next album, Love Story, April 21, the cover art for which is above. According to a press release, the album was recorded over a two-year period in Nashville and it features two previously released singles "Till It's Gone" and "Whiskey in a Bottle." The album is a follow-up for the Shady Records artist's 2011 release Radioactive.
The rapper described Love Story as "more passionate" than his previous effort.
"I'm telling the truth about a lot of things," Yelawolf added about the album. "I try to be as honest as I can with everything I do."
Eminem served as the executive producer for the album, but no tracklist has been revealed, so fans will have to wait and see if Shady has a guest spot on the LP. Em joined Yelawolf on the Radioactive cut "Throw It Up." Rolling Stone gave that album three stars out of five.
"What Yelawolf lacks in wit he makes up for with gravitas: 'Radioactive Introduction' is an intoxicating trunk-rattler, surveying his past as his Impala rolls at a snail's creep, and 'Growin' Up in the Gutter' is a Trent Reznor-style teethgrinder," RS wrote.
Yelawolf talked about the album and lead single, "Till It's Gone," which first appeared on Sons of Anarchy, with radio.com in December.
"There's like a darkness to it. It's just mean, very aggressive, a very dark record. It's juxtaposed with this melody and the hook that gives it the power. I think that 'Pop the Trunk' [from Yelawolf's 2010 EP] is 100 percent aggressive even throughout the hook but this record thought is like ... what I've done on Love Story is tried to take pieces of everything that I've done to try to polish it into one solid album," the rapper said.
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