Radioactive (album)

Radioactive
Studio album by Yelawolf
Publication (s)	November 21, 2011
Label (s)	Shady Records , Interscope Records , DGC , Ghet-O-Vision
Format (s)	CD , download , vinyl
Genre (s)	Rap , hip-hop , rap-rock
Title (number)	15/18
running time	57:22 / 69:23
production	Eminem ( Executive Producer ) WillPower Jim Jonsin Diplo Tha hydrox JUSTICE League The Audibles Sasha Sirota Phonix beats Emanuel Kiriakou Borgore Mr. Pyro Blaqsmurph Poo Bear
chronology Creek Water (2005) Radioactive Love Story (2015)
Single releases August 8, 2011 Hard White (Up in the Club) October 28, 2011 Let's roll

Radioactive (dt. Radioactive ) is according to the substrate album Creek Water the second Soloalbum the US rapper Yelawolf . It was released on November 21, 2011 as a standard and deluxe edition on the labels Shady Records , Interscope , DGC and Ghet-O-Vision.

Music style and content

The musical design of the album is quite diverse. In addition to typical rap songs (e.g. Get Away , Whip It ) there are also rap rock pieces ( Growin 'Up in the Gutter , Slumerican Shitizen ) and many songs with choruses sung (e.g. Made in the USA , Animal , Write Your Name , Radio ) on Radioactive . The variety of topics ranges from pure party songs ( Hard White (Up in the Club) ) to profound pieces (e.g. Write Your Name ). Technically speaking, many verses can be assigned to the fast double time.

production

The instrumentals used for the album come from many different producers, with Yelawolf's label boss Eminem acting as executive producer . He is also listed as a co-producer on the songs Let's Roll (with The Audibles and Mr. Pyro) and In this World (with WillPower). WillPower is also the most represented producer with nine beats ( Radioactive Introduction , Growin 'Up in the Gutter , Throw It Up , The Hardest Love Song in the World , Everything I Love the Most , Slumerican Shitizen , The Last Song ). He produced I See You together with The Audibles (Co) and Sasha Sirota (Co). The Audibles also created the beats for Good Girl (with Poo Bear as co-producer) and Whip It . Phonix Beats is responsible for the instrumental of Get Away , while Tha Hydrox provided the background music for Hard White (Up in the Club) . Animal was produced by Diplo and Borgore, while the beat for Made in the USA was produced by Emanuel Kiriakou and Blaqsmurph (Co). JUSTICE League also created the beat for Write Your Name and Jim Jonsin contributed the instrumental to the radio .

Cover design

The album cover is a drawing showing a blond boy handling test tubes and a bunsen burner . Chemical formulas and an explosion can be seen in the background. At the top of the picture is the title Radioactive in orange. Among them is small and in black lettering the Amazing and Mystifying Chemical Tricks (dt. Amazing and confusing chemical tricks ). In the lower part of the picture is Gadsden - Alabama. USA as well as the typical Yelawolf lettering. On the cover of the Deluxe Edition, the Radioactive lettering is in green and below it is Deluxe Edition .

Guest Posts

In addition to Yelawolf, other musicians appear on 13 of the 18 tracks. Eminem raps a verse in the song Throw It Up and part of the chorus in In this World . Former Three-6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo can also be heard on Throw It Up . The rapper brought various female singers on board, especially for the refrains of various songs. Priscilla Renea can be heard on Made in the USA , Fefe Dobson sings the chorus on Animal and Mona Moua appears on Write Your Name . The singer Kid Rock is represented on Let's Roll , while Yelawolf is supported by Lil Jon on Hard White (Up in the Club) . Shawty Fatt and Mystikal rap verse on Get Away , while Poo Bear sings the choruses on Good Girl and The Hardest Love Song in the World . Killer Mike has a guest post on Slumerican Shitizen . Rittz can also be heard on the radio on Growin 'Up in the Gutter and Danny Morris .

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
1	Radioactive Introduction		WillPower	2:57
2	Get away	Shawty Fatt and Mystikal	Phonix beats	3:23
3	Let's roll	Kid rock	The Audibles, Mr. Pyro and Eminem (Co)	3:54
4th	Hard White (Up in the Club)	Lil Jon	Tha hydrox	3:23
5	Growin 'Up in the Gutter	Rittz	WillPower	3:40
6th	Throw it up	Gangsta Boo and Eminem	WillPower	4:54
7th	Good girl	Poo Bear	The Audibles and Poo Bear (Co)	4:24
8th	Made in the USA	Priscilla Renea	Emanuel Kiriakou and Blaqsmurph (Co)	3:28
9	Animal	Fefe Dobson	Diplo and Borgore	3:42
10	The Hardest Love Song in the World	Poo Bear	WillPower	2:59
11	Write your name	Mona Moua	JUSTICE League	3:44
12	Everything I Love the Most		WillPower	4:05
13	radio	Danny Morris	Jim Jonsin	5:32
14th	Slumerican shitizen	Killer Mike	WillPower	3:36
15th	The Last Song		WillPower	3:41

Deluxe Edition Bonus Songs:

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
16	Whip It		The Audibles	4:04
17th	I see you		WillPower, The Audibles (Co) and Sasha Sirota (Co)	3:55
18th	In this world	Eminem	WillPower and Eminem (Co)	4:04

Chart successes and singles

With around 41,000 units sold in the first week, Radioactive entered the US charts at number 27 and stayed in the top 200 for 16 weeks. While the album entered the charts at number 91 in Switzerland for a week, it was able to Top 100 not reached in Germany.

In the run-up to the release of the album, the songs Hard White (Up in the Club) and Let's Roll were decoupled as singles including music videos, neither of which were able to place in the charts. But Let's Roll received a gold record for more than 500,000 units sold in the United States in 2018 . In addition, a 12-minute short film for the song Growin 'Up in the Gutter was released in July 2012 , which partly contains controversial scenes, including the killings of people.

Chart overview

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Radioactive	-	-	CH91 (1 week) CH	-	US27 (16 weeks) US	First published: November 21, 2011

reception

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	62%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

Radioactive received mostly average to positive ratings from critics. The side Metacritic calculated from 17 Reviews of English-language media an average of 62%.

The website laut.de positively highlighted Yelawolf's lyrics and rap technique, but criticized the refrains and some beats and awarded three out of a possible five points:

“Hookless - the boy from Alabama would have stayed better. While his verses, without a point or comma, but with a double load of rhythm, leave nothing to be desired, Yelawolf doesn't necessarily have a knack for the compelling chorus on "Radioactive". Whether kid rock in "Let's Roll", R'n'B-lard in "Good Girl" or mediocre ("Write Your Name") to dreadful ("Made In The USA") female vocals: The hookline guests would have liked Yelawolf - with the exception of Lil Jon, who opens the crunk barrel again in "Hard White (Up In The Club)" - all of them can give away. It's different with the rap features, including Killer Mike and of course Shady Records boss Eminem. In particular, the reunion with Mystikal, who rams the wood of his voice into your ear canal in "Get Away", turns out to be extremely enjoyable. [...] It's just a shame that the beats too often don't do justice to the quality and especially the wickedness of the lyrics. [...] Why such good piano, string, music box or acoustic guitar sounds have to gain the upper hand after a much sharper introduction at the latest from halfway through the running time is not immediately apparent - at least not if you look at Yelawolf's texts and behavior at the same time. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Album cover on amazon.de
2. ↑ Album cover of the deluxe edition on amazon.de
3. ↑ USA: Week 1 - 41,000 sales
4. ↑ US
5. ↑ CH
6. ↑ Let's Roll - US: Gold
7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
8. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
9. ↑ Rating: laut.de
10. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
11. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
12. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com
13. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier