The
Ying Yang Twins perform to a sold-out audience
in Atlanta.
“This
ain't the beginning.”
-- Ying Yang Twins
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“We
love the fans,” D-Roc said. “The
fans pay for the tour. We treat the fans
lovely.”
Moreover, Kaine agreed.
“We livin’ because of the fans,”
he explained. “We came out before
and we was 32 stations strong without no
television [support]. Now we’re over
in other countries. I’m from the projects.
I didn’t think I’d ever see
something like that.
“I didn’t think I was gonna
blow up at this level of the game. I wasn’t
getting hyped by going over to Jamaica ‘cause
I didn’t go into it for that.”
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Besides
upcoming guest appearances on CDs released
by the likes of Bonecrusher and Trick Daddy,
the Ying Yang Twins will also be trading lyrics
with one of America’s reigning princesses
of Pop music: Britney Spears.
The song “I Got That
(Boom Boom)” was touted as the tune
that set the music industry on its ear.
“We went in the studio
and just caught a vibe,” Kaine said,
when asked about details into the Spears/Twins
union. “We heard it for the first time
and put our thing on it. The song is a good
vibin’ song. Whenever you got a good
vibe, it’s all love. It’s like
when we heard the song, it just got what we
needed. We complimented what she did. We did
what they wanted.”
Although the duo have yet to meet Ms. Spears
(“She wasn’t in the studio when
we was there”), plans are currently
underway to set the two acts together on one
stage to perform the song live – which
may help United States of Atlanta in the sales
department. At press time the project reached
150,000 units sold.
CD sales, however, isn’t
what fuel the Ying Yang Twins drive toward
success.
If you had to label the energy that moves
these two, you’d have to file it under
personal gratification.
“It don’t feel
like nothing but a job,” Kaine said.
“We did feature songs with a lot of
people. This is the third album for us and
the first on TVT [records].
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Ying
Yang drive fans into a frenzy, top pic, and
gives a female fan a sample of their southern
charm, center, while flirting with two subdued
concertgoers onstange.
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We
came out independently on Southern Music Distribution,
then Universal Records picked us up and that
didn’t do to much for us. They dropped
us and we went to Koch [records] and they
didn’t know what time it was. Our grind
power don’t come from the mainstream,
it comes from the streets. That’s why
we don’t care if the media grabs a hold
of it.”
While United States of Atlanta is a solid
release that might take Ying Yang Twins to
the next level in the music biz, fans may
be surprised to learn that the CD was written
entirely by the duo.
“You can’t be a veteran if you
don’t write your own material,”
D-Roc explained. “If you don’t
write your own stuff, how can you make your
own self? I can’t hate on it ‘cause
it’s been done since times changed.
I can’t say I’ll never do it ‘cause
my brain may just shut down on me and I may
have to ask somebody to write a song for me.
But Ying Yang Twins have our own unique chemistry.
We write our own songs. This is the sound
of the South.”
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