It might seem contrived-a lil’ something for the ladies-but you can’t help but feel like what you’re watching up there is real. “She said, ‘I know you gave me everything, but love is not enough. He sings the last few bars a cappella-indulgent and showy, but startlingly on key. Then he pops open the bottle and performs one of his rawest, most emotional songs. During “Love is Not Enough” Yelawolf pulls a chair into the middle of the stage, bums a cigarette from a fan, grabs a bottle of Jack and sits down like he’s chilling on a porch in Sweet Home Alabama. KP, who signed Yelawolf to his Ghet-O-Vision label in 2007, says Wolf “connects with the crowd.”Ī master of creating tension, he’s unwilling to let his audience’s attention wander for even a second. KP knows what’s he’s talking about-a former member of the Dungeon Family group PA, he went on to work with the likes of TLC, OutKast, Beyoncé, Usher, and T.I.-to name a few. “He knows where he is at all times,” says Kawan “KP” Prather, who produced Wolf’s major-label debut, Radioactive. From the instant he took the stage he made it clear: no one puts on a live rap show quite like Yelawolf. Everybody in the building is bouncing as the President O’ Bama electrifies the crowd. The floor at Irving Plaza in New York City has turned into a wooden trampoline. Yelawolf takes a moment to let that sink in.
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