Yelawolf, “Til It’s Gone”
“Till It’s Gone” was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with mixing engineer Matthew Hayes and producer William “WLPWR” Washington, who also performed keyboards, pads, drums, programming and strings on the song; Mike Hartnett performed guitar and bass guitar. The song originated as an acoustic guitar riff, which was then looped and used as the backing for lyrics which were written “in a couple hours”. Due to its “dark and swampy” tone, the track was originally known as “The Swampy Record”.
On September 16, 2014, “Till It’s Gone” was featured on the second episode of the seventh season of American crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy, an inclusion which Yelawolf described as a “perfect fit”. Speaking about the lyrical themes on display in “Till It’s Gone”, Yelawolf has described the song as “very aggressive” and “very dark”, and notes that “It’s juxtaposed with this melody and the hook that gives it the power”. About the music, he has described the beat as “dope, swampy, alligator, snake-infested, gangrene, and dark”.