Straight Outta Cashville is the debut studio album by Young Buck, released August 24, 2004 on G-Unit & Interscope.
Straight Outta Ca$hville alludes to the N.W.A album, Straight Outta Compton, & is a neologism for Nashville, Tennessee (Buck’s hometown).
The singles from this album include “Let Me In”, (featuring 50 Cent), & “Shorty Wanna Ride”, and. The album features several rappers outside of G-Unit, such as Lil Flip, David Banner, D-Tay, & Stat Quo. The album also features production from Lil Jon, Kon Artis, and Klasic, along with others.
Straight Outta Cashville received minimal promotion after November 2004 as result of the VIBE award incident, in which Young Buck was arrested for an assault. Though the case was eventually dropped, 4 months had passed by since Young Buck himself had been able to promote the album.
In its 1st week of release, Straight Outta Cashville debuted & peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart with sales of over 360,000. The album has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling over 1 million copies in the U.S. As of 2015, the album sold over 2 million copies in the U.S.