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Alabama-born hip-hop phenom Yelawolf (real name: Michael Wayne Atha) returns to Vancouver, hitting the Vogue Theatre on October 24.

In 2015, the release of Yelawolf’s second Slumerican/Shady/Interscope album, Love Story, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and topped both the Rap and R&B/Hip-Hop album charts as the follow-up to his debut, 2011’s Radioactive. Love Story was recorded mostly in Nashville with producers Eminem, Malay, WillPower and DJ Paul.

The Boston Globe said of the album: “If you scratch his songs’ surfaces, you hear a smart, sensitive outsider searching for some solace… The disc’s best moments come when the songs smolder.” Rolling Stone praised Yelawolf’s “strong embrace of his Southern roots,” while the Knoxville News Sentinel compared him to a “Southern Eminem or an edgier Kid Rock… but that’s selling him way short.”

Yelawolf released his independent debut album, Creek Water, in 2005, followed by an EP and four mixtapes, the last of which, Trunk Muzik, landed him his deal, with Interscope Records re-releasing it as Trunk Muzik 0-60 in November 2010. In March 2011, Yelawolf signed with Eminem’s Shady Records, releasing Radioactive in November 2011. Love Story was released April 21, 2015.

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