"Pop the Trunk" was originally released, with a music video, on July 27, 2010 as a single to promote his previous mixtape Trunk Muzik

Trunk Muzik

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; and has since been re-released as the lead single in Yelawolf

Yelawolf

Michael Wayne Atha , better known by his stage name YelaWolf, is an American rapper. He is currently signed to Shady Records, Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment and Interscope Records...

's album Trunk Muzik 0-60

Trunk Muzik 0-60

-Track listing:Sample credits*"Love Is Not Enough"contains a sample of "Hollywood" by Rick James and an interpolation of "Anythang" by Devin The Dude*"Marijuana" features a sample of "Moist Vagina" by Nirvana-Personnel:* Yelawolf – vocals, composer...

. The reason this particular song was chosen to be included on his official release was because he wanted to include 5 "fan favorites" in addition to 7 new songs , as this track is indeed one of (if not the most) well-known song by Yelawolf to date. The song's concept revolves around life in Gadsden, Alabama

Gadsden, Alabama

The city of Gadsden is the county seat of Etowah County in the U.S. state of Alabama, and it is located about 65 miles northeast of Birmingham, Alabama. It is the primary city of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 103,459. Gadsden is closely associated with the...

 and the environment that the artist grew up in, as Yelawolf is essentially just describing his surroundings and different events he's witnessed. Yelawolf described in an interview that this track was actually the first one he wrote for Trunk Muzik, and the first verse was basically a nod to his stepfather that raised him. The title of the song refers to a popular slang term which involves retrieving a firearm from the trunk of one's automobile.

Music video

The music video incorporates different elements of culture of the rural American South. The first part is filmed in his parent's house, in a wooded area of Gadsden, where his mother can be seen chopping meat with a meat cleaver on a porch that has a deceased deer hanging over her head (which is assumed to have been hunted). His stepfather is fixing an old Chevorlet pickup truck, and eventually gets a Mossberg pump shotgun to shoot a burgular that has been tresspassing on his property, thus 'popping the trunk'. The burgular's corpse is seen lifeless. Later, he is seen sitting in the back seat of a Monte Carlo, rapping recreationally. Yelawolf's friend, Shawty Fatt, pulls into the parking lot of a liquor store and sees someone with whom he's had a disagreement, leading him to pull out his gun and kill the man before speeding off. The majority of the video is shot at night, giving the video an eerie feeling. There are many instances where the artist is seen rapping in front of a makeshift fire in a trashcan in front of an abandoned vehicle, in a scrap junkyard, and other places interwoven in between the main storyline (usually on a cold day). The music video was filmed by Motion Family.