Yelawolf - Pissin' in a barrel of beez

[AbramIsaac]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a Gangsta Grillz tape.

I didn't think it was very good, as Yelawolf doesn't fit the traditional mixtape format (to me anyway) and it was before he really found himself. There's some good stuff on there, it shows some of that early potential, but it's not something I would listen to. Creekwater was better to me, but that's more because of the potential shown, not the actual quality. Good stuff, just a little too rough around the edges.

Pissin' in a Barrel of Beez isn't talked about much because it's not that great, it isn't incredibly rare though. I would say that the reason it started getting more exposure over the last couple years is because that's when Yelawolf really started to garner a fanbase past the underground. 2011 was a great year for Yelawolf that just didn't end as well as it should have.

Ball of Flames: The Ballad of Slick E. Bobby was a little better, but suffered from some of the same problems in my opinion.

[CanadaPure]

It's a Gangsta Grillz tape, it has "Gangsta Grillz" across the cover.

[TonyTilt]

It's a Gangsta Grillz tape, it has "Gangsta Grillz" across the cover.

Yeah it just confuses me, either Dj Drama was just on the come up or something because I thought they were just kind of for popular artists. Which he was not at the time.

[AbramIsaac]

Well, the Gangsta Grillz brand took a little while to build.

Once upon a time, those tapes were pretty much only for artists in the South anyway. In 2005, I'm pretty sure they were still trying to expand the brand; there were like 16 or so different Gangsta Grillz tapes released that year. Before DJ Drama was *the* mixtape guy to go to, he was a DJ in the South that had a reputation for providing exposure to artists coming up.

[TonyTilt]

Interesting, learn something new every day!