Hip Hop Meets Mainstream

Yelawolf is one of the most promising newcomers in the US. In 2011 he was signed to Eminem and now released his first album under the flag of Shady Records.
For his album "Radioactive" to Yelawolf has brought strong support in the form of features: Rapp Arts there from Shawty Fatt, Mystikal, Rittz, Gangsta Boo, Killer Mike, Lil Jon (if one interprets his screams now as rap ...) and of course Eminem. Vocal parts there are also going from Kid Rock, Poo Bear, Priscilla Renea, Fefe Dobson and Mona Moua.
The album starts out dark and rough, as one would expect from Yelawolf. After creative intro, follows the track "Get Away" featuring Shawty Fatt and Mystikal.
The Yelawolf can rap pretty good, it should be clear and that is why I find a part Part Yela too little because the features in my opinion, not rudimentary at Yela's Part approaching. Now comes the second single "Let's Roll" featuring Kid Rock.
In my opinion, a good track for radio and the charts, but I will unfortunately have to mention more often ...
The first single "Hard White" is one of the most successful tracks on the album: Killer Parts of Yealwolf, an aggressive voice and the screaming of Lil'Jon make this song a pretty successful.
Aggressive, it also goes further with "Growin 'up in the gutter." However, the parts go under too much besides the very aggressive Hook.
There now follows a typical "in your face track" Gangsta Boo and Eminem.
A good song, but dirty Gangsta Boo the track a bit, I think.
It is also interesting that you get served piano sounds instead of gloomy beats.
After the first 6 tracks Yelawolf changed his style completely: "Good Girl", "Made in the USA", "Animal", "The Hardest Love Song in the World," "Write your name", "Everything I love the most "and" Radio "are typical mainstream pop songs that are sometimes more, sometimes less audible. Animal for example has good, long Rapp Arts by Yelawolf, Radio, however, is almost completely sung and the rest of the songs has a lot to short verses.
To conclude, there then again a track as he is known by Yelawolf: Slumerican Shitizen with Killer Mike.
The last song is then finally a good, thoughtful track.

Overall, could have been a lot more from the album: Good tracks like "Get Away" are overloaded with features, some fit not quite in the track (Gangsta Boo), then the hook is sometimes perfect, but the verses too lax (" Growin Up In The Gutter) and then there is still the mainstream tracks.
I believe very much that the pop songs are due to Eminem, after his album "Recovery" was also in this direction.
Of course, the pop songs are not necessarily bad, but they are produced precisely for the masses, nich particularly innovative and some then but too cheesy (Radio). One is from Yelawolf just accustomed another genre, which unfortunately rarely comes across on this album. Few pop songs would not have harmed yes, but that the track is already taking almost more than half of the album in claim definitely overkill.
Thus, "Radioactive" unfortunately only become a good solid album that will stick in people's minds probably not last long, but at least proves this album that you can not necessarily slits with mainstream numbers, after all, Yealwolf was only the 27 place secure without any distinction.

PS: In May comes the new Slaughterhouse album, and I hope that will not hit it in the same vein as "Radioactive" because Eminem is also located in this album at the controls and a mainstream album from Slaughterhouse would be a far greater disaster than in the case of Yelawolf. (Info: Even Slaughterhouse was got signed 2011 by Eminem)