After their single Wait (The Whisper Song) it seemed for a while that the Ying Yang Twins also got a foothold in the Netherlands. However, it remained with that one hit, in which the duo could be heard in a whisper: a striking gimmick, but nothing more was extracted from it. In the Netherlands that is, because in the US the song was nominated for a Grammy ('best rap performance by a duo or group').
For Chemically Imbalanced, the Twins, who are not real brothers, hired Wyclef Jean. He produced the second half of the album, trying to reach a larger audience. The first half of the CD is typical 'southern rap' about strip clubs, alcohol and weed, half of Wyclef contains more hit-sensitive 'poppy' songs, for which Hall & Oates and The Shadows were sampled. (IV)more
