The hooks themselves can be enjoyable, but they just dont bode well with Yelas aggressive delivery any intensity he builds up is usually drained when someone else grabs the mic. Somewhat predictably, things go awry when the radio-ready, guest-provided hooks (mostly from upstarts including Mona Moua and Priscilla Renea, who sounds a bit too much like Rihanna) show up. The best moment here is the Killer Mike-abetted Slumerican Shitizen, in which both emcees deliver characteristically mouth-foaming verses over crunching electric-guitar riffing. On both tracks, Yela blitzes through the beats with the same stunning technicality thats all over both Trunk Muziks. Things come out of the gate quickly with the bare-bones intro and Get Away. So, after those tapes and high-profile collaborations with the likes of Big Boi and Tech N9ne, heres Radioactive, Yelas Shady Records debut. But if you’ve spent any amount of time with his breakthrough 2010 mixtape, Trunk Muzik, or its revised edition, Trunk Muzik 0-60, you can testify to the fact that hes a much more adept emcee than he might appear to be – see the eerie thump of Pop the Trunk or the Raekwon-featuring I Wish. With his working-class Alabama heritage, unflattering quasi-mullet, and mom-honoring tattoos, Michael Yelawolf Atha is no ones idea of a rap phenomenon.
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