Alabama-born and Nashville-based artist Yelawolf serves up a soulful and soaring new single entitled “Trailer In The Sky” alongside Jelly Roll.
After teasing its impending arrival, Yelawolf reveals the details for his anxiously awaited double-LP, “War Story – Michael Wayne (Part 1)” and “Trunk Muzik 4ever (Part 2).”
Yelawolf’s magnum opus arrives on June 7. Grammy Award winner Malay (Frank Ocean, Alicia Keys) helmed the production for “Michael Wayne,” while WLPWR (Wiz Khalifa, Eminem) produced “Trunk Muzik 4ever.” Various special guests include Killer Mike, Jelly Roll, Caskey and Struggle Jennings.
As the opener of “Michael Wayne,” “Trailer In The Sky” provides the perfect prelude. Continuing a long tradition of collaboration between Yelawolf and Jelly Roll, it marks their fifth track together following “Unlive,” which adorned Jelly Roll’s chart-topping 2023 blockbuster “Whitsitt Chapel.”
The track layers laidback guitar and bright harmonies atop a hazy beat as Yelawolf proclaims, “I’m raising up new G’s, I’m making bosses in fact.” Meanwhile, Jelly Roll’s heartfelt hook booms, “Someday we will all get high in that doublewide trailer in the sky.”
About the track, Yelawolf said: “An album is like a book, and the beginning and the end are important to me. This is how it starts. My hometown has never been nice to me, so I’m speaking on that. It was perfect for Jelly. We come from the same spot. We’ve been in the gutter, but we’ve arrived now. The message is, you can look down on us from your high horse if you’ve never been to jail and don’t have tattoos, but we all end up in the same place.”