Michael Wayne Atha (born December 30, 1979), better known by his stage name
Yelawolf, is an American hip hop recording artist from Gadsden, Alabama. He is currently signed to Shady Records, Interscope Records, and has since founded his own independent record label, Slumerican. Yelawolf released his independent debut studio album titled
Creek Water in 2005. The last of the four, titled
Trunk Muzik, which re-released the mixtape as
Trunk Muzik 0-60 later that year. and released his album,
Radioactive on November 21, 2011. The album debuted at number 27 on the
Billboard 200. Yelawolf released a sequel to his breakthrough mixtape
Trunk Muzik, titled
Trunk Muzik Returns on March 14, 2013. His second album under Shady Records, titled
Love Story is set to be released in 2015.