Till It's Gone
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| Single by Yelawolf | |||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Shady XV and Love Story | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 16, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 4:35 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | WLPWR | ||||||||||||||||||
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"Till It's Gone" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Yelawolf, featured on his 2015 album Love Story. Written by Yelawolf, producer WLPWR, guitarist Mike Hartnett and mixing engineer Matthew Hayes, it was originally featured on some versions of the 2014 Shady Records compilation Shady XV. The song was released as the second single from both albums on September 16, 2014.
Like much of Love Story, "Till It's Gone" was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with mixing engineer Matthew Hayes and producer William "WLPWR" Washington, who also performed keyboards, pads, drums, programming and strings on the song; Mike Hartnett performed guitar and bass guitar. The song originated as an acoustic guitar riff, which was then looped and used as the backing for lyrics which were written "in a couple hours". Due to its "dark and swampy" tone, the track was originally known as "The Swampy Record".
On September 16, 2014, "Till It's Gone" was featured on the second episode of the seventh season of American crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy, an inclusion which Yelawolf described as a "perfect fit". Speaking about the partnership, Yelawolf has described it as "a big deal" and "one of those moments where the timing was really really good". The single was released on iTunes the same night.
In January 2015, Yelawolf performed an acoustic version of the track for radio network Sirius XM with Travis Barker, Bones Owens and DJ Klever. The live performance was recorded backstage at the Hollywood House of Blues, which Yelawolf describes as the four simply "jamming ... chillin'".
Speaking about the lyrical themes on display in "Till It's Gone", Yelawolf has described the song as "very aggressive" and "very dark", and notes that "It’s juxtaposed with this melody and the hook that gives it the power". About the music, he has described the beat as "dope, swampy, alligator, snake-infested, gangrene, [and] dark".PopMatters writer Charles Pitter described the song as "melodically acoustic" in his review of Shady XV.
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