Young Money “Rise Of An Empire” Release Date, Cover Art & Tracklist

    Young Money is readying Young Money: Rise of An Empire, a project set to be released March 11 through Young Money/Cash Money Records. 

    The project, which is slated to feature Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga, among others, follows 2009’s We Are Young Money album, which also features the collective. 

    “We Alright” is the first single off the project, a track that features Lil Wayne, Birdman and Euro. The track is set to hit radio stations January 28. 

    Drake’s “Trophies” is also slated to be released on Young Money: Rise Of An Empire

    “There’s nothing like it when the whole family gets together in the studio,” Young Money Entertainment CEO Lil Wayne says. “YMCMB is stronger than ever, and everybody was truly on fire. We’re all blessed to be a part of this incredible Empire as it continues to thrive. I can’t wait for what’s next. Keep watching.”

    “This compilation is a very special release for the label,” Young Money Entertainment Chief Operating Officer [COO] Cortez Bryant says of the project. “We Are Young Money helped launch the careers of our first generation of acts with Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Tyga. Even though we’ve been honored with accolades as a company, our hunger hasn’t diminished or dwindled. We’re hungrier than ever, and we’re still building. That goes hand-in-hand with the title Young Money: Rise Of An Empire. We’re not going anywhere. We don’t plan on stopping—ever. Our goal is the expansion of this Empire with the next generation of kings and queens ruling.”

    “This release will showcase the Platinum-selling artists you know and love, such as Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Tyga, as well as celebrate our up and coming artists who will surely become your new favorites,” Cash Money Records Co-CEO and Co-Founder Birdman says. “This album is an excellent family effort and will be alighting radio airwaves across the globe.”

    HipHopDX gave We Are Young Money a 2.5 out of 5 X rating when it was released. The review can be read by clicking the link below.  

    (January 22)

    UPDATE: Young Money has released the cover art for its Rise Of An Empire album, which can be found below.

    (February 16)

    UPDATE #2: Young Money has unveiled the tracklisting for its Rise of an Empire compilation album. The project is set to feature YMCMB stars Drake, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, among others. 

    1. “We Alright” — Euro f. Birdman & Lil Wayne
    2. “Trophies” — Drake
    3. “Bang” — Lil Twist f. Euro & Cory Gunz
    4. “Senile” — Tyga f. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne
    5. “Induction Speech” — Euro
    6. “One Time” — Lil Twist f. Tyga & YG
    7. “Hittin Like” — Shanell f. Chanel West Coast
    8. “Lookin’ Ass” — Nicki Minaj
    9. “Fresher Than Ever” — Gudda Gudda f. Jae Millz, Flow, Mack Maine & Birdman
    10. “Back It Up” — Lil Twist f. Tyga
    11. “Moment” — Lil Wayne
    12. “You Already Know” — PJ Morton f. Mack Maine, Gudda Gudda & Jae Millz

    RELATED: Young Money – We Are Young Money

    218 thoughts on “Young Money “Rise Of An Empire” Release Date, Cover Art & Tracklist

    1. Do we even need to say how shit this gon be haven’t listened to a good cash money album since carter 2 this music 4 females n homos

      1. RUB MY NIPPLES IM A YMCMB FANBOY I DONT HAVE AN ALBUM EITHER YET I GET SO BUTTHURT I GOT TO INQUIRE ABOUT OTHER PPLS ALBUMS……..YAY ME

        FUCK YOU MORON TAKE WAYNE OUT YO ASSHOLE

      2. yeah im the one who’s butthurt. It ain’t about being a young money fan. it’s about dissing your ass. and you just lost by getting emotions involved. punk.

      3. And you failed at that. You already lost by saying something. Plus, you’re the real emotional one with that weak ass comment.

    2. “Lil Wayne says. “YMCMB is stronger than ever, and everybody was truly on fire. We’re all blessed to be a part of this incredible Empire as it continues to thrive.”

      Niggas is delusional YMCMB hasnt been hot in years with the exception of Drake

    3. Young Money is slipping. Drake is starting to distance himself from the label and he’s their most successful act, Nicki’s next album will either make her or break her, Wayne’s falling off, Tyga’s struggling to get a hit like Rack City, and no one cares about the other tax write-offs in the background.

    4. “”This release will showcase the Platinum-selling artists you know and love, such as Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Tyga,”

      Since when is Tyga a platinum selling artist? Are they talkin about Rack City cause his albums ain’t even gold yet and never will be.

    5. 1) Drake (Feat. Lil’Wayne and Nicki Minaj)
      2) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Drake)
      3) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
      4) Nick Minaj (Feat. Drake & Lil’ Wayne)
      5) Drake solo
      6) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Drake & Nicki Minaj
      7) Nicki Minaj solo
      8) Birdman Interlude
      9) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Birdman)
      10) Drake (Feat. Tyga)
      11) Lil’ Wayne solo
      12) Nicki Minaj (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)
      13) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Drake, Nicki Minaj, & Tyga)

      Deluxe Edition

      14)Drake (Feat. Micki Minaj & Lil’ Wayne)
      15) Nicki Minaj (Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Tyga)
      16) Lil’ Wayne (Feat. Drake & Nicki Minaj)

      1. Drake is too good to be giving them that many verses. He wasnt even on the last flop they put out so this one will likely only have Trophies!

    6. that’s all they can do now.. compliation albums.. cause every damn one of em fell off except Drake. they should give it up and let Drake go solo

      1. jae millz was recently promoted to head weed carrier while gudda gudda is the new head janitor who cleans the bathrooms on the tour busses

    7. What ever happened to all the YMCMB trolls that were on here? dentaldamboy, Yessir, etc… did they jump ship knowing YMCMB aint poppin no more?

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    9. young money runs the rap game they run that shit. Drake is certified king of rap he is big and getting bigger. He makes headlines on the news his shoes bidded for 100 fucking thousand dollars. Drakes shows sell more than your favourite underground rappers careeer. Drake is the king of rap accept it and move on you fuck boys.

      1. and also Im Drakes side dude but dont worry he taking care of me real good. me n dentaldamboy buttholes real good none of that tightshit….loosy-goosy niggas

      2. sorry but Em’s album sold more in less time. Shady is runnin circles around Aubreys career. Second place isnt so bad though.

    10. “sorry but Em’s album sold more in less time. Shady is runnin circles around Aubreys career. Second place isnt so bad though”

      Be honest with yourself. Em’s outselling everybody, especially Kendrick. What a slaughter that is. At least Drake is more visible than Eminem is most years when Shady is off hiding somewhere battling his demons or making sure Slaughterhouse has all their life goals in order.

    11. “Be honest with yourself. Em’s outselling everybody, especially Kendrick.”

      LOLOL, naw ESPECIALLY DJ Khaled, French Montana, Ace Hood and all them other niggas that ain’t go halfway gold.

    12. Hiphopdx’s comment section has went to total shit. they need disqus or livefyre on here to ween out the fucking rampant trolling.

      1. These albums aren’t mean to sell huge numbers but are more bonus treats for fans. They don’t need to make money on this as they have tha carter 5, nicki minaj, tyga, dj khaled albums all coming out in the next 18 months.

      2. Most of Khaled’s featured artists are free since he’s part of ymcmb and is also friends with ross. He gets the other guest at low prices. Then, stores and universal republic splits it 50-50 and then universal republic give 95% to ymcmb, who then gives over 90% to DJ Khaled. He’s doing fine, all without having to sell that many albums.

      3. LOLOLOL @ the DJ KHALED COMMENT

        HAD OVER 30 Guest stars on last album

        sold about 23k first week!!! LOLOLOL

        LOLOLOLOLOL he sucks

      4. Like I said, most of his guest artists are free since 1. he’s part of ymcmb and 2. He’s friends with Ross. He gets the others like scarface at a low price, keeping production costs low, allowing him to make a profit.

      5. Their albums cost significantly more to make, however, since they work with expensive producers and since they aren’t part of ymcmb or mmg, they have to pay substantially more than what they would have to pay if they were under mmg or ymcmb.

      6. I’m an accountant for Young Money and I gotta say you don’t know what you’re talking about. No ones doing DJ Khaled songs for free… he gotta pay like everyone else.

    13. “I’m an accountant for Young Money and I gotta say you don’t know what you’re talking about. No ones doing DJ Khaled songs for free… he gotta pay like everyone else.”

      No, fake, I am. DJ Khaled does songs for free with ymcmb artists and gets a huge discount for using mmg artists since he’s friends with rick ross. The rest of his guests are lowlife rappers that don’t sell many copies.

      1. This is an imposter pretending to be me, I’m the original YMCMB accountant. This guy got fired for being a cunt online and bragging about his job in order to get dates with hot sexy ladies.

    14. More like ‘RISE & FALL OF AN OVERLY GREEDY LABEL’, with a LONG HISTORY of NOT paying their artist’s royalties, pimpin’ them so they can buy MORE materialistic things like exotic cars & watches, they don’t drive OR wear, instead of FAIRLY sharing their artist generated profits! They SEND A HORRIBLE MESSAGE to youth about ‘motivated by money’ which is part of why our society & next generation is SOOOO F*CKED UP, & HORRIBLE ROLE MODELS with their tattoos on their faces, preying to ‘money’ over GOD, & their greedy intentions of ‘signing artists to put on the shelf’ & power hungry egos enslaving talent everywhere! F*CK CELEBRATING THAT! These guys should be in prison……

    15. albumn cover does suck for them to have 100 million in the bank I know 5 year olds who can imagine better shit than that lol

      1. its like they took a picture of an old castle they found on google and put some red filter on it. it doesn’t even make sense.

    16. “HAD OVER 30 Guest stars on last album…sold about 23k first week!!! LOLOLOL”

      That’s cause 2 million people downloaded it for free.

      1. Songs about money, bitches, drugs, alcohol, gangsta shit, material wealth, etc. over poppy/trap beats with with lazily-written lyrics made for mainstream radio/TV.

    17. up to I looked at the draft saying $9494 , I have faith …that…my mother in law could actualie bringing home money parttime from there computar. . there aunt haz done this for less than 11 months and recently took care of the mortgage on their appartment and purchased a brand new BMW 5-series . Read Full Report…….http://x.co/3u0U9

    18. every label is trying to be like strange music…tech n9ne been doing collabos which put his label mates out there which made the label well rounded..now this so called label is trying to do the same

      1. Not a young money/cash money fan but those samplers and mixtapes have been circulating around the hood and turned down,thrown in the trash or given away more times than brenda’s baby

    19. these people really like to refer to themselves as royalty. Chill out, your just rap artists, and 99% of you (the 1% being Drake) don’t even make decent music lol.

    20. Cash Money

      Ace Hood
      Austin Mahone
      Aziatix
      Birdman
      Bow Wow
      Brisco
      Busta Rhymes
      Caskey
      Chris Richardson
      Christina Milian
      Cory Gunz
      DJ Khaled
      Drake
      The Game
      Glasses Malone
      Gudda Gudda
      Jae Millz
      Jay Sean
      Kevin Rudolf
      Lil Twist
      Lil Wayne
      Limp Bizkit
      Mack Maine
      Mavado
      Mystikal
      Nicki Minaj
      PJ Morton
      Paris Hilton
      Sarah Lenore
      Savvy
      Shanell
      Torion
      T.RONE
      Tyga
      T Lopez
      Vado

      Young Money:

      Chanel West Coast
      Drake
      Euro
      Flow
      Gudda Gudda
      Jae Millz
      Lil Chuckee
      Lil Twist
      Lil Wayne
      Lourdes Rodriguez
      Mack Maine
      Nicki Minaj
      PJ Morton
      Reginae Carter
      Shanell
      Short Dawg
      Torion Sellers
      Tyga
      W3 the Future

      1. Out of all of this dead weight, only a few actually release any albums and only three (you can guess that) achieve any success.

      2. their not dead weight when they giving u a full show on tour… and they working behind the scenes to make that ish stay relevant

      3. “their not dead weight when they giving u a full show on tour… and they working behind the scenes to make that ish stay relevant”

        Yet no one even knows the names of 90% of the Cash Money artists signed. And what work, carrying Wayne and Birdman’s luggage?

    21. first a nicki mirage album then another carter album then a young money compilation…shit..just when you think the worst is over it comes rearing it;s ugly head again, shit

    22. How they gonna call this album, rise of an empire, when even odd future compiliations are beating rich gang. Hell, even self made, with no platinum artist from mmg, are selling more than rich gang and dj khaled.

      1. The 50 groupies run this site which is why you see so many spam posts and hate posts directed at YMVMBMMG artists. Maybe its just one loser with no life but it seems like more.

      2. The YMCMB/MMG groupie run this site which is why you see so many spam posts and hate posts directed at non-YMCMB/MMG artists. Maybe its just one loser with no life but it seems like more.

      3. People always hate on the relevant and current artists, just miserable losers sad that their lives are filled with failure and disappointment.

      4. People always dickride the relevant and current artists, just miserable losers sad that their lives are filled with failure and disappointment.

    23. 3/4 of the members are irrelevant and this cover art is fucking HILARIOUS, looking like we about to play some world of warcraft or something.

    24. “ace hood is never dead weight calm the f down

      His album was the best selling to date and had a gold single, bugatti.

    25. Never understood why YMCMB gets so much hate….

      Yeah, they are more mainstream and pop-oriented than some other labels but you people that champion diversity should love a crew that has half whites, half Vietnamese and half Indians in the forefront with foreign born artists as their flagship artists.

      1. Them being Trash is just an opinion, Wayne has a classic album under his belt and Drake puts out quality albums. I think Flo Rida is trash but ai dont dislike him because of it.

      2. No, them being trash is a fact. Wayne has no classics and Drake doesn’t put out quality albums. YMCMB are trash, period.

      3. you dumb Fu*k you really dont know sh*it when it comes to lil wayne lol noone has done it like he has Everyone today Thanks Wayne cause he brought all of them up. You say wayne has no classic albums, just listen to Carter 1,2,3 or any of waynes old mixtapes The drought series , No ceilings, etc. The thing is that wayne doesnt care anymore cause this generation. Its not about talent anymore its about popularity, just look at Eminem now or any of todays rapper including lil wayne, Noone is trying anymore cause there is no need on trying. not only that but wayne been rapping since age 8 – to 31 the tired he wants to do something different now thats why he said ”im putting down the mic and picking up the skate board” he is tired Lol and another reason is of course that he can make money out of anything, Im not saying he is trash today cause he got a couple good songs President carter , god bless amerika,” its just that he is tired. Today wayne is just giving hidden messages which you need brains to actually get it. You really need to stop hating on wayne if you actually listen to the real wayne this tunechi nigga is not the real wayne “right now go listen to Lil wayne ‘Cry Out, or Trouble’, and stay on that wayne era and you will see the real wayne. Now drake im 10000% with you he really doesnt put out quality music.

    26. It’s official; Jae Millz, Shanell, and the other ones with potential (which YMCMB is leavin’ on the shelf) need to ask for their release ASAP.

      I don’t know why they’re still on the label…maybe Birdman pays magazines, radio & video to blacklist artists who’ve left Cash Money (after seeing how much better Juvenile & BG’s singles did on the charts than anything from Carter 1 or 2)

    27. Look at the all the groupies talking shit to each other. Let me set the record straight ymcmb sucks, mmg sucks, and g unit is washed up. Game fell off too for you bws fans. Get your heads out of your ass and listen to some real hip hop.

      1. Roc marciano, action Bronson, step brothers, fashawn, army of the pharaohs, ill bill, ransom, Freddie Gibbs, stat quo, may not be popular but its hip hop and better than this crap.

      2. Don’t worry g unit fans. We finally have a release dat. We may be lucky to sell half of what mastermind will sell opening week but g unit rules and office Ricky sucks

    28. LOl Mystikal aint on there and he’s the only nigga that can rap on that whole label. He should go back to No Limit

      1. no shit man. not a fan of drake but only one track with drake…this going to flop worse then Rich Gang or whatever…damn i almost feel bad for young money lol. no mystikal damn

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    30. LOL drake like fuck you guys i ain’t going on your shit … PLEASE DRAKE… HERE take a record that i made for NWTS … that’s been out for months..

    31. Most of the songs here consist of wayne, euro, birdman, tyga, twist, and Nicki. What about the other 80 artists on ymcmb? Even rich gang had more of a variety of guests. Also, drake never participated in this, forcing ymcmb to use a leftover from nwts sessions.

      1. said no one ever,

        or maybe said by that one guy who listens to pitbull, birdman and meek mill but shits on NAS AND KENDRICK

      1. at least they got 1 this time, Rick gang had no Drake feature and thats why it sold like 23k first week and probably 60k total

    32. Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz, Shanell, PJ Morton & Christina Milian are in their 30’s. They are far from being young? Birdman is a 45 year old pervert who likes little boys. Lil Twist, Tyga, Cory Gunz & Gay ass Drake are all under 30, they probably had to bottom for Baby & Wayne to get on the record label. This entire crew is weak, more than half of them can’t even generate decent album sales, let alone release a full lenth album. call me a hater cuz yes I hate them all!!!

      1. LMAO, she is such a shitty rapper. I really don’t know what they were thinking giving her a deal. Probably just Lil Wayne trying to be down with Rob Dyrdek.

      1. yea i was gon say the same thing lol drake actually on this even though its a nwts leftover n never actually intended to record for a lame ass young money album lol

    33. I feel like this album is gunna lack a theme or concept. “we alright” and “trophies” are 2 way different songs. The flow of the album is gunna be all over the place if their just gunna put random ass songs together.

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