YelawolfBest Yelawolf Albums Ranked

Trunk Muzik 0-60

rollingstone

7.0

“Wayne Atha is a rap novelty — and not just because he’s a white guy with a Flock of Seagulls haircut. He’s a novelty in the best sense: an MC whose liquid flow breathes life into genre clichés. On his major-label debut, he raps from the POV of a rural underdog over music that shifts […]”

Radioactive

pitchfork

6.5

“On Yelawolf's major label debut-- featuring guest spots from Eminem, Mystikal, Killer Mike, and Kid Rock, among others-- the Alabama rapper's attempts at crossing over make a potentially great album go off the rails.”

Love Story

rollingstone

6.0

“Yelawolf's second major-label album trades out the failed stabs at arena rap of his 2011 debut for a stronger embrace of his Southern roots. This time around he's less Eminem, more Kid Rock: Instead of awkward outsourced hooks, the Alabama native serves up slow-burn ballads like "Devil in My Veins" and "Whiskey in a Bottle," where he weaves in and out of cornfed guitar licks. Yelawolf's populist a”

Radioactive

rollingstone

6.0

“Hick-hop juggernaut Yelawolf may strike some as Alabama’s answer to Eminem (whosigned the 31-year-old rapper to his Shady label). But the boozy, stone-faced rhymes on his debut leave little room for laughs: "In this forest I’m a lonely tree/ My limbs are covered in tattoos, and my roots, they run deep," he raps. What Yelawolf […]”

Radioactive

fantano

5.0

“On Yelawolf's latest album, the Alabama rapper makes his Shady Records debut with a commercial release whose results are a bit mixed.”

Love Story

pitchfork

4.9

“Yelawolf has spent years making Love Story, his second official album as a major label artist and first release since 2013’s Trunk Muzik Returns. It seems to cement a damning new identity for him: once-compelling mixtape artist, shoddy album-maker.”