Review: Yelawolf, “Trunk Muzik 0-60”

Yelawolf, Trunk Muzik 0-60
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Yelawolf’s Trunk Muzik 0-60 may only be an expanded version of his popular Internet mixtape Trunk Muzik, but it’s a vastly improved one. The Alabama rapper has added a handful of new tracks – including “That’s What We On Now” and “Billy Crystal” – that sharpen the album’s themes of gritty street tales and sexcapades. He’s an incredible bounce rapper, one who not only can flip drug metaphors in a matter of milliseconds, but also communicate real heartbreak on “Love Is Not Enough.” As Yelawolf says on “Pop the Trunk,” “This isn’t a figment of my imagination, it’s where I live.”