Radioactive (Yelawolf album)
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| Studio album by Yelawolf | ||||
| Released | November 21, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2010–11 Conway Recording Studios 213 Studio E Studio Charlice Recording (Los Angeles, California) Effigy Studios (Ferndale, Michigan) Future Music Recording Studios (Las Vegas, Nevada) Parkland Playhouse (Parkland, Florida) PatchWerk Recording Studios (Atlanta, Georgia) Tree Sound Studios (Norcross, Georgia) |
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| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 57:22 | |||
| Label | Ghet-O-Vision, DGC, Interscope, Shady | |||
| Producer | The Audibles, Blaqsmurph, Borgore, Diplo, Emanuel Kiriakou, Eminem (also exec.), Tha Hydrox, Jim Jonsin, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, KP (co-exec.), Mr. Pyro, Phonix Beats, Poo Bear, Sasha Sirota, WLPWR | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (62/100) |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllHipHop | (6/10) |
| AllMusic |   |
| Consequence of Sound | |
| Los Angeles Times |  |
| Paste | (7.2/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.5/10) |
| PopMatters | (4/10) |
| Spin | (7/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| XXL |
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Radioactive (also known as Radioactive: Amazing and Mystifying Chemical Tricks) is the debut studio album by American rapper Yelawolf; it was released on November 21, 2011, by Shady Records and Interscope Records.
Recording sessions took place at Las Vegas Valley, Nevada in two weeks.
Radioactive covers many different styles of hip hop fusions, being alternative hip hop as principal musical genre. Hardcore hip hop is represented on the tracks "Radioactive Introduction", "Throw It Up", "Get Away", and "Slumerican Shitizen". A horrorcore rap style is used in "Growin' Up in the Gutter", whereas "Hard White (Up in the Club)" is a crunk party track. "Let's Roll", "Write Your Name", and "Radio" follow a pop rap style, with catchy hooks and beats. "Animal" is a fast-paced hip hop party track with a dubstep influenced beat. "Good Girl" utilizes an R&B-tinged feel, while "The Hardest Love Song in the World" is a g-funk hip hop track. Yelawolf covers a variety of lyrical themes in these album, from gangsta rap lyrics in "Get Away" and "Throw It Up", to more conscious and slightly political tracks such as "Made in the USA", "Slumerican Shitizen", "Write Your Name", and "The Last Song". "Radio" is about the internet taking over how music and music videos are received by fans. It also refers to radio stations playing the same songs constantly and singers being discovered via the internet. The song contains several references to rock and rap artists and their songs from the past."Write your Name" is produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League With samples from the Reza Pishro "Tehran". The album's final track, titled "The Last Song" described as very personal about Yelawolf's life, and it's a very emotional final letter to his absent biological father and talks about other past struggles.
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