Their debut single "
Whistle While You Twurk" was played on urban and pop radio stations and peaked at #17 on the
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. They toured with Juz tha King, Kat Nu and Demo Dil. Their full-length debut album
Thug Walkin' was released that year. Immediately after discovering fellow Atlanta hip hop artist
Lil Jon,
A&R Bryan Leach began talks with representative
Mr. Collipark about signing them to
TVT Records. Protracted negotiations meant that a deal was not finalized in time for the label to release their next album
Alley: The Return of the Ying Yang Twins, which instead appeared in 2002 on
Koch Records. The album was successful among hip-hop fans in the
Southern United States. The same year, the group appeared on the album
Kings of Crunk by Lil Jon on the single "
Get Low", and the song was a huge club and radio hit. As Crooms had negotiated only a one-album deal with Koch, the duo was free to finally submit to the advances of TVT, who had impressed them with their recent work with Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.
Me & My Brother, their first album for TVT, was
certified platinum on April 12, 2005, and yielded three more hits — "
What's Happenin!", "
Naggin'" and the Lil Jon collaboration "
Salt Shaker". The same year the duo appeared on
Britney Spears' album
In the Zone on the song "I Got That (Boom Boom)" and her television special of the same name. A new album
U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta) appeared in Summer 2005 as its singles "
Wait (The Whisper Song)", "
Badd", and "
Shake" were dominating popular music and rap radio stations, In 2005, D-Roc and his younger brothers, Mr. Ball, and Da Birthday Boy, formed the group Da Muzicianz and released their first single "Camera Phone". Their self-titled album was released on February 28, 2006. The group's fifth album
Chemically Imbalanced was released in November 2006. For this album, the Twins collaborated with producers
Wyclef Jean and Keith Duplessis in addition to Mr. Collipark, who produced a majority of the songs on the group's previous album. The first two singles were the
Hall & Oates-sampling "
Dangerous", featuring Wyclef Jean, and "Jigglin'". In 2008, the Twins released the mixtape
The Official Work and a promo single titled "Drop". A highlight of the Ying Yang Twins' tour includes a visit to the Epsilon Mu chapter of
Sigma Chi. Here they performed all their hits live in front of a sold out Texas crowd. All of the proceeds from the show went to charity. In 2009, the Twins released their latest album with Deep Records,
Ying Yang Forever, and started a tour titled "Ying Yang Forever Tour". Their song "Halftime (Stand Up and Get Crunk)" is now a standard in many
National Football League football stadiums, and it is considered to be the unofficial anthem of the New Orleans Saints during their
Super Bowl victory season, but it has been a staple at Saints games since 2006. This song was performed live during the victory parade. The song has also been used in
NFL Street 2 and
Madden NFL 11 as well as the
opening tip at home games for the
National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs throughout the majority of the 2000s. On November 3, 2009, Ying Yang Twins released their greatest hits album via The Orchard and BOOTY Records. The album includes "What's Happenin!", "Shake", "Salt Shaker", and "Wait (The Whisper Song)" plus three new tracks. On June 29, 2012, Ying Yang Twins revealed on Twitter that they had signed to
Epic Records and released their first single from their untitled album "Fist Pump, Jump Jump", featuring singer Greg Tecoz. The Ying Yang Twins were a featured act on the 2019 Millenium Tour, with
B2K,
Chingy and others. Their Christmas song "Deck Da' Club" featured heavily in the 2019 Christmas show of
The Unbelievers Podcast. ==Discography==