Yelawolf - Love Story (Q1 2015)

[FistInABlender]

I hate Shady Records. They need to get their shit together... It's not 2006 anymore Em.

Unfortunately I think they still think that Eminem's name alone can carry an album like it did for Obie way back.

They need to change the suits at the top, don't have a clue about advertisement or anything

[EminemBase]

I hate Shady Records. They need to get their shit together... It's not 2006 anymore Em.

Unfortunately I think they still think that Eminem's name alone can carry an album like it did for Obie way back.

Word-up.

Em's name is still enough to carry his own shit, but he's become like a sub-culture... he's still huge and mainstream but he just has a mass of dedicated followers - which he did in 2003 too but, back then he was new and just this global fixation, so people followed his every move much more intensely and anybody associated.

I hope they all realize in response to Radioactive and Our House... you can't fake it. Stop trying to fool the pop fans, and the rap fans, and put the real work in to create creative shit.

You can't glide your way through with nice hooks and easy choices, stop trying to fool us because you will kill the hype of these great artists as quick as you created it. Create pure shit or fuck off.

Pure shit will work. GREAT work, will work.

Em's best selling album is STILL MMLP, and it's STILL perhaps the most controversial mainstream... rap album at the very least, of all-time, and his least compromised.

Just fucking create art and stop trying to take shortcuts. Cunts.

[Rafael]

I was thinking that it'll probably go through him last. I don't know if Em will have his hand in the mixing at all this time though, since it almost feels like they're just using Shady Records as a distributor this time.

Em will definitely contribute to it with mixing at least... I still believe he'll put his stamp on it with a beat & a verse too.

I really don't want an Em beat fucking up the cohesiveness of LS, if Yela picked to work with WillPower, Malay, Jim Jonson and DJ Paul, then so be it.

An out of place Em beat would really mess up the whole flow of the album.


Em should really just fuck off on this project imo, except lay a verse. I do want a verse very badly.

[CanadaPure]

I was thinking that it'll probably go through him last. I don't know if Em will have his hand in the mixing at all this time though, since it almost feels like they're just using Shady Records as a distributor this time.

Em will definitely contribute to it with mixing at least... I still believe he'll put his stamp on it with a beat & a verse too.

I really don't want an Em beat fucking up the cohesiveness of LS, if Yela picked to work with WillPower, Malay, Jim Jonson and DJ Paul, then so be it.

An out of place Em beat would really mess up the whole flow of the album.


Em should really just fuck off on this project imo, except lay a verse. I do want a verse very badly.

Bonus tracks tho. I'd be okay with an Em beat on an iTunes bonus section, just because it's something different. I'd rather the whole actual Yela project be cohesive though, which Black Fall and especially TMR were in their own right, so I agree.

[Notalius]

Em used to be the biggest artist in the world. Now he's a popular rapper.. Big difference.

I hope the success of albums such as GKMC and Because The Internet. Shows the record labels, that putting hard work into albums and not spitting bullshit can also sell records.

I doubt most teenage girls sit down and bump MIGOS everyday.

lol at comparing GKMC with BTI. GKMC is considered a classic already, and BTI is just another album from a mediocre rapper.

And who's still taslking about BTI ?

[Francesco]

I was thinking that it'll probably go through him last. I don't know if Em will have his hand in the mixing at all this time though, since it almost feels like they're just using Shady Records as a distributor this time.

Em will definitely contribute to it with mixing at least... I still believe he'll put his stamp on it with a beat & a verse too.

Shady Records is still a hell of a lot less involved in this, which I think is fantastic from a musical standpoint.

I agree with those two statements right there... he could still be involved but to actually let his artists do their own thing & just contribute.

[Rafael]

I pray that Yela really doesn't have that sit down with Eminem that he's been talking about.

I really don't think he needs Em's opinion on his album at all, its kinda says that he's insecure about it and needs an expert opinion, and that's what Slaughterhouse did and it really disgusts me..
And I'm sure Em will tell Yela to compromise.. He always does.

[Francesco]

I pray that Yela really doesn't have that sit down with Eminem that he's been talking about.. I just have the feeling that Em will fuck this project up to please the masses..

Well it'd a total sell out if Yela didn't even have a sit down with Em ya know... it'd be literally like he just uses the brand so he'd get more exposure. It's great Em gives Yela & SH all the freedom they want from artists perspective but he'll definitely have to put his stamp on 'cuz at the end of the day they're part of that team & represent Shady.

[Rafael]

Well it'd a total sell out if Yela didn't even have a sit down with Em ya know... it'd be literally like he just uses the brand so he'd get more exposure. It's great Em gives Yela & SH all the freedom they want from artists perspective but he'll definitely have to put his stamp on 'cuz at the end of the day they're part of that team & represent Shady.

I understand that... But it's like, that exactly what their not doing.

They are hardly giving them any exposure or promotion with the albums. So all they're basically doing is compromising projects. And its really not fair for a label or label head to do that.

I have this feeling Em will let Yela do his thing on this one to be honest. Well, atleast I hope so.

I would want an Em verse, beat and a hook, that would be great, but nothing like that bullshit Throw It Up.. Ugh that was meh.

I hope he'll let him do his thing too.. But honestly based on pretty much ALL of the Shady releases except a few, we've gotten a carbon copy of an Eminem album.

And that's the #1 thing I'm worried about. That this sit down will make Em try to make this into his album, just like almost every Shady album. The only artist that Em didn't have his hands real deep on the label was 50 Cent tbh

Cheers sounded like an Eminem album.
Second Round's on Me and the County Hound EP sound just like I'm sure King Mathers would have sounded like.
Both D12 albums basically were Em albums so I can't say anything.

Radioactive and WTOH sounded like Recovery spin-offs.

So what I'm trying to say is that Love Story is probably the only Shady Records album (besides 50 Cent's albums) to not sound like an Eminem album copy. And that's what I'm worried this sit down will do. And I don't want another Eminem. I want a YELAWOLF album brothers.

[Francesco]

Well it'd a total sell out if Yela didn't even have a sit down with Em ya know... it'd be literally like he just uses the brand so he'd get more exposure. It's great Em gives Yela & SH all the freedom they want from artists perspective but he'll definitely have to put his stamp on 'cuz at the end of the day they're part of that team & represent Shady.

I understand that... But it's like, that exactly what their not doing.
They are hardly giving them any exposure or promotion with the albums. So all they're basically doing is compromising projects. And its really not fair for a label or label head to do that.

You're wrong... You can't have bigger exposure from been on Shady Records working with Eminem ya know. The platform is right there & that's a fact.
Yela is not on Shady to change them & show Eminem he doesn't need him at all 'cuz if he didn't he wouldn't be there at the first place.
The promotion thing is up to Interscope & that's fucked up indeed but the level of exposure that depends on Shady is absolutely insane.
It's Yela choice to be on Shady so he has to act like a Shady artist at least 'cuz if he didn't at all would be totally fishy & funny ya know.

[CanadaPure]

The album's done guys, Yela is just in the process of choosing songs and making the tracklist.
So there's no "talk" with Em, Yela was very clear when he said he got the green light to do whatever he wants.

Fortunately this is probably actually good news.

[Rafael]

The album's done guys, Yela is just in the process of choosing songs and making the tracklist.
So there's no "talk" with Em, Yela was very clear when he said he got the green light to do whatever he wants.

Fortunately this is probably actually good news.

Word. No other input beside's Yela team... Just the way I like it

[Francesco]

Y'all don't bet on it... bet against it. Like CP said... if that happened it'd be like Shady Records is just a distributing label for Yela's music & we all that Shady Records isn't about distributing. He gave Yela & SH the green light to do whatever they want with their albums but both acts will hand it to him for sure & he's contribute with mixing & most of it with at least one beat or a verse on each album.
Mark my words!

[Rafael]

Y'all don't bet on it... bet against it. Like CP said... if that happened it'd be like Shady Records is just a distributing label for Yela's music & we all that Shady Records isn't about distributing. He gave Yela & SH the green light to do whatever they want with their albums but both acts will hand it to him for sure & he's contribute with mixing & most of it with at least one beat or a verse on each album.
Mark my words!

I doubt it. If it doesn't fit Yela's artistic standpoint, Em isn't going to force anything on him. I really doubt the mixing and adding a beat part (maybe a bonus track). A verse maybe, if Yela wants (he better); but I'm sure that Em'll just listen and say give it a green light to go to distributing; and yes. I do think that Yela is using Shady as just a machine now.

Of course the SH album will be litered with Em beats and verses and mixing because all they do is ride off his success and don't have the nuts to voice their own artistic standpoint and they just let anyone that's got more power than them fuck with their craft. Disgusting really.

[Rafael]

^But I'm sure that Em sees that Yela is really a true artist (unlike every other rapper that has ever signed with Shady, that are just pretty much that; rappers), so I'm sure Em will support Yela's vision 100% and see through his vision for Love Story