There’s no question to whether or not the Ying Yang Twins can make it rain inside a smoke-filled shake joint with their hyperactive 808-infused tracks, mannish school boy theatrics and raunchy, sex-charged lyrics. But after five albums with two going platinum back-to-back, D-Roc and Kaine have made musical thunderstorms all over the world.

The first ones at the club and the last ones to leave, the Ying Yang Twins consider themselves “The Greatest Hip Hop Show on Earth”! They have taken their talents all around the world, playing arenas, clubs and theatres in Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Amsterdam just to name a few. They boast of their US Troops Tour to Iraq and Afghanistan to perform for our troops during both wars.

“People used to laugh cause we talk about going to the strip club, but they used to tip toe and go there,” D-Roc explains. “If you go to the strip club, you see what you like, and you are able to drink. Every man, I hope, has been to the strip club when he got old enough. We just talk about what we do.”

Brought together as group years ago by label CEO Michael “Mr. Collipark” Crooms, Kaine and D-Roc had been long-time acquaintances in their native ATL. D-Roc had established himself on the local level as a solo artist but when they recorded a song together for Collipark’s (then known as DJ Smurf) album, he knew had struck gold.

“When they did that record together, it was crazy,” Collipark remembers. “I was like ‘you need to stay together. That sounds good.’ When I decided to start my label, they were the first choice.”

“When they did that record together, it was crazy,” Collipark remembers. “I was like ‘you need to stay together. That sounds good.’ When I decided to start my label, they were the first choice.”

Their first hit as duo was “Whistle While You Twerk” from their 2000 indie debut Thug Walkin. They kept dance floors crunk with their well-received follow-up album Alley…Return of the Ying Yang Twins two years later, an album which featured club cuts like “Say I Yi Yi” and “By Myself.” But they hit pay dirt with the platinum sales of Me & My Brother in 2003 and USA: United State of Atlanta in 2005, which kept last summer steaming with the Grammy nominated freak tale, “Wait.” They continued with the last album called Chemically Imbalanced, which was executive produced and produced by both Mr. ColliPark and Wyclef Jean.

“We don’t really focus on the bling or any other material thing,” Kaine explains. “We try to keep the basic normal conversation. They don’t be conversations for everybody. They are conversations for the females at the stripper bars. Stripper bars are reality, and they get paid better in there than they do going to college for 10 years.”

While they have been known to stuff bills inside a g-string or two, Ying Yang Twins are more than just perverted pimps on wax. They do tackle the drama of life outside of the club.

“People try to look at us as one-dimensional artists that only speak upon the strip club,” says Kaine. “We really have a better variety of things we speak about that pertains to normal life.”