Rappers Planning Joint Mixtape
6:00AM ET March 15th, 2012
Contributor : Martin James
A Rocky Williform Company

Southern emcees Big K.R.I.T. and Yelawolf have announced that they will be releasing a collaborative mixtape called "Country Cousins." Big K.R.I.T. shared the news with Masked Gorilla, and said that they have not entered the studio as of yet, but the project is forthcoming.

K.R.I.T. cites the two rappers' long-standing friendship as the motivation for the project.

"I definitely knew Yela before the [XXL] Freshman cover. I had the opportunity to meet him at Tree Sound [Studios] in Atlanta, and he's a down to Earth person, really just hungry and really just competitive about just the art of music," he explained. "It was just dope to really get to work with him. The first day I met him, we ended up doing a song called 'Happy Birthday Hip Hop,' and from there he's just been my country cousin and I'm excited to see what's been going on with his grind…Lord willing we can do this tape 'Country Cousins' eventually."