Ying Yang Twins Me & My Brother CD

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
The Ying Yang Twins: D-Roc, Kaine (rap vocals).
Additional personnel: Trick Daddy, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Bone Crusher, Sammy Sam, Khujo, K.T., Ms. Flawless, Tha Rhythtum.
Producers: Beat-In-Azz, Lil Jon, Derrick Williams.
Recorded at Collipark, College Park, Georgia; The Zone, Norcross, Georgia; Sound Lab Studios, Smryna, Georgia; TDD, Miami, Florida.
The Ying Yang Twins: D-Roc, Kaine (rap vocals).
Additional personnel: Trick Daddy, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Bone Crusher, Sammy Sam, Khujo, K.T., Ms. Flawless, Tha Rhythtum.
Producers: Beat-In-Azz, Lil Jon, Derrick Williams.
Recorded at Collipark, College Park, Georgia; The Zone, Norcross, Georgia; Sound Lab Studios, Smryna, Georgia; TDD, Miami, Florida.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Billy Hume (guitar).
Audio Mixers: Michael Crooms; Ray Seay; Billy Hume; Derrick Williams.
Recording information: Collipark Studio, College Park, GA; TDD Studios, Miami, FL; The Sound Lab Studios, Smryna, GA; The Zone, Atlanta, GA; The Zone, Norcross, GA.
Photographer: Michael Blackwell.
Unknown Contributor Roles: D-Roc; Kaine.
Just when you want to write them off and banish them to the novelty oblivion where acts like Tag Team reside, the always-partying Ying Yang Twins come up with an undissable track and a collection of remixes that equals anything the underground mixtape world could have coughed up. "Halftime" is the new banger; a totally unexpected epic that grinds slowly, incorporates a marching band, and builds a stop-start tension of which you'd never think these over-the-top jokers were capable. It's a fantastic intro to this collection, a collection that's a little too skimpy when you drop one of the redundant "Salt Shaker" remixes. The "Extended Remix" of the massive hit is an endurance test for the noncrunk at eight and a half minutes, but its robotic riff (crunk-tech?) always deserved this stretching. Here it allows no less than eight guests to freestyle as its grand running time makes it crunk's "Autobahn" or "Freebird." Fantastic, but skip the short edit placed right in front of it since it's too similar. The other hits from Me & My Brother -- "Whats Happnin!" and "Naggin" -- are missing but not missed when all the other goodies are considered. The remix of "Me and My Brother" is filthy, slurred crunk of the highest order and Juvenile's catchy-as-hell "Slow Motion" is a desirable bonus with the Twins offering one of their nastiest raps. "In da Club" -- no relation to the 50 Cent hit -- is another fantastic choice since Yonnie's Ashanti-esque voice rattling off porno talk while the Yangs' "huh?" and "what?" make it every Southern hood rat's anthem. The guest-filled collection beats their regular releases, since the filler is minimal and the duo generally works best bouncing off others. Unless they're growing by leaps and bounds, the idea-filled "Halftime" could just be a fluke for the limited band, but they're always fun and a welcome addition to any party. [My Brother & Me was initially released with a bonus DVD including three videos and some live appearances.] ~ David Jeffries
For a New York-based label, TVT has certainly put out a lot of Dirty South releases -- some of them violent, totally thugged-out gangsta rap, some of them party music. One might wonder why a company with a Manhattan address would be so into the Dirty South; after all, some Northeastern hip-hop heads can be quite provincial and act like they're oblivious to rappers who live below the Mason-Dixon. But then, the folks who run TVT are entrepreneurs, and they obviously realize that the Dirty South market is huge -- and that Southern rappers can make a fortune from the Southern states alone. How well Me & My Brother does in Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Philadelphia is almost irrelevant; this