![]() YW: I just drink, and I tried to go sober. But I’ve never said in one record ever that I’m smoking weed. ![]() I got pictures of me at 5 years old next to pot plants. My mom still smokes weed to this day, she grows it. The reason I feel I have a right to talk about it is because I did it. I tried smoking weed, but smoking weed would bring my anxiety back. Then I started drinking after that a little and then a lot. Suicidal, like I can’t go on living like how I feel. YW: I’m hallucinating and having insane anxiety attacks. What are you actually seeing and feeling during those three months? Then I took a break and my boy told me mushrooms ain’t the same, so we went to this cow ?eld and we just started popping caps straight out the patty, and chasing them with sweet tea. I took some mescaline, some black pyramids and I had a bad trip that lasted me a few days. Well I just stayed by my grandmother’s side in Gadsden for a long time. ![]() What happens when you have a trip that long? I went so heavy into drugs that I had a bad trip one time that lasted for months. I used to take that shit and go to class. It was called chocolate chip, and it had heroin in it. Not even because I was a good dope boy, but because I was a scumbag. Thirteen, acid, Freon, special k, mushrooms 16 years old, I was selling X pills at school. It was a unique sound to his voice, to his delivery, the way he would hit the pocket.” He doesn’t sound like a white rapper trying to sound like me or trying to sound like any other rapper for that matter. “Obviously he’s white,” Eminem begins, “but I’m listening to what he’s saying and how he’s rhyming, and he sounds like nothing I’ve heard before. At the moment, Eminem is singing the praises of his new protégé, a fellow technician of words who happens to also be white. This is their ? rst duel interview, Yelawolf will later mention with great enthusiasm. When he speaks, he peeks out from under the brim of his hat to make a point. He has a diamond-encrusted sobriety symbol hanging around his neck. Eminem is nearby, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, hat pulled down over his eyes. LATER IN THE DAY, after the studio shoot wrapped, Yelawolf sits inside a trailer, gangly form folded onto a low chair. Eminem had discovered his next Shady Records MC. Because you can’t hear color, Eminem focused on the words, the style, the howling endurance of Yelawolf’s controlled chaos. It was this collection that stopped Eminem in his tracks after producer Jim Jonsin and Paul Rosenberg hounded him to take a listen. He found his most seamless blend on Trunk Muzik (later, of?cially released as Trunk Muzik 0-60), a menacing collection of 808 drum booms and lyrical gymnastics.
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