Young Black Brotha (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Young Black Brotha
| type = studio
| artist = Mac Dre
| cover = Mac dre ybb 1993.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 29, 1993
| recorded = 1988–1993, Fresno County Jail and various studios
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, G-funk
| length = 74:24
| label = Strictly Business Records
| producer = Khayree
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Stupid Doo Doo Dumb
| next_year = 1998
}}
Young Black Brotha is the 1993 debut LP by Mac Dre, not to be confused with an earlier Mac Dre release, Young Black Brotha (EP). The album contains several new recordings as well as most of the tracks from the rapper's previous EP, What's Really Going On?, and three tracks from the sessions for Back N' Da Hood, including the full version of "My Chevy" featuring Mac Mall – the first 1 and a half minutes appeared on the original EP. Some of Mac Dre's vocals were recorded over the phone from prison, after being incarcerated for a string of bank robberies in 1992.{{cite web |url=http://payplay.fm/macdremusic1/wma/19 |title=The Best Of... by Mac Dre $0.88/MP3, $0.77/WMA on PayPlay.FM |website=payplay.fm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220507/http://payplay.fm/macdremusic1/wma/19 |archive-date=2007-09-27}} Young Black Brotha peaked at #93 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it Mac Dre's most commercially successful work.{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=mac dre|chart=R&B/Hip-Hop Albums B}}
Track listing
{{tracklist
|headline=Romp Side
|extra_column=Originally appeared on...
|title1=2 Hard 4 the Fuckin' Radio
|length1=4:56
|note1=Printed on the back cover as "2 Hard 4 the F--ckin' Radio"
|extra1=Young Black Brotha EP (1989)
|title2=All Damn Day
|length2=3:50
|extra2=What's Really Going On? EP (1992)
|title3=2 the Double R
|length3=2:33
|note3=featuring Coolio da Unda Dogg
|extra3=New recording
|title4=On My Toes
|length4=3:58
|extra4=What's Really Going On?
|title5=Get Some Get Right
|length5=3:02
|extra5=New recording
|title6=Young Playah
|length6=5:03
|extra6=What's Really Going On?
|title7=California Livin'
|length7=4:36
|extra7=California Livin' EP (1991)
|note7=featuring Coolio da Unda Dogg
|title8=This is The Mac
|length8=5:18
|note8=performed by Khayree and The Mac
|extra8=New recording
|title9=I'm n Motion
|length9=5:44
|extra9=New recording; later appeared on 2005 re-release of Back n da Hood EP (1992)
|title10=Nothin' Correctable
|length10=0:12
|note10=Interlude
|extra10=New recording
|total_length=39:12
}}
{{tracklist
|headline=Crest Side
|extra_column=Originally appeared on...
|title11=They Don't Understand
|length11=4:21
|note11=featuring Ray Luv
|extra11=New recording
|title12=Young Black Brotha
|length12=5:14
|extra12=Young Black Brotha EP
|title13=The Romp Ya'll
|length13=2:15
|extra13=New recording
|title14=My Chevy
|length14=3:21
|note14=featuring Mac Mall
|extra14=Full version of a track from Back n da Hood
|title15=The M.A.C. and Mac D.R.E.
|length15=5:01
|note15=featuring The Mac
|extra15=New recording
|title16=Young Mac Dre
|length16=4:17
|extra16=New recording; later appeared on 2005 re-release of Back n da Hood
|title17=Much Love 4 the Mac
|length17=1:40
|extra17=What's Really Going On?
|title18=Gift 2 Gab
|length18=5:30
|extra18=California Livin
|title19=A Piece from Khayree
|length19=2:51
|note19=performed by Khayree
|extra19=California Livin
|title20=U Still Punk Police
|length20=0:24
|extra20=Shortened version of a track from What's Really Going On?
|title21=Out the Water
|length21=0:18
|note21=Interlude
|extra21=New recording
|total_length=35:13
}}
References
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- [http://www.discogs.com/Mac-Dre-Young-Black-Brotha/master/171906 Young Black Brotha] at Discogs (list of versions)
- [http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_youngblackbrotha.html In depth review of album at rapreviews.com]
- [http://www.rapmusicguide.com/amass/images/inventory/1335/Mac%20Dre%20-%20Young%20Black%20Brotha%20rear.jpg High definition images of Mac Dre - Young Black Brotha (The Album) front and back album covers] at rapmusicguide.com or through Google Images
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