The album also featured the popular, Neptunes-produced hit ' Shake Ya Ass'. Let's Get Ready debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it Mystikal's only chart-topping album to date. Let's Get Ready was released in 2000 and contained ' Danger (Been So Long)', which featured rising pop star Nivea, and was the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single in June 2001. In 1999, he had begun recording his fourth album before leaving No Limit. That was his last album with the label, and he and No Limit parted ways in 2000.Ģ000–2004: Let's Get Ready, Tarantula and prison In late 1998, he released Ghetto Fabulous. He also collaborated with Mariah Carey on her Rainbow album on the track 'Did I Do That'. He appeared on many of the No Limit albums released from 1997 through a chunk of 2000. He signed to Master P's No Limit in 1996 and released Unpredictable in November 1997. Mystikal signed to Jive and released Mind of Mystikal in 1995. 1995–2000: Mind of Mystikal and stint with Big Boy Records Mystikal and Lil Wayne would eventually squash their feud and become collaborators. The songs 'Dedicated To Michelle Tyler', 'Murder' (both on Mind of Mystikal), 'Murder 2', 'Shine' (both on Unpredictable) and 'Murder III' (on Let's Get Ready) refer to her death. Mystikal's sister, Michelle Tyler, sang the chorus on 'Not That Nigga' and her fate became a major influence on Mystikal's music after her death in September 1994. He struck back with 'Beware' and 'Here I Go' which were on his second album, Mind of Mystikal. They dissed him on tracks like 'Drag 'Em in Tha River' by U.N.L.V.

In 1995, he found himself involved in conflict with fellow New Orleans rappers signed to rival Cash Money, including U.N.L.V. The album was one of Big Boy's most successful albums and gained major success for Mystikal. Mystikal's debut album, Mystikal, was released on New Orleans-based independent record label Big Boy in 1994.

Leroy 'Precise' Edwards, the house producer for Big Boy Records, was in the audience, and granted him a contract. Fresh at an outdoor concert at the Treme Center. As an aspiring rapper, he opened for Run-DMC and Doug E. He attended Cohen High School and afterward joined the United States Army as a combat engineer. His father, who ran a small neighborhood store, died when Tyler was seven.

Tyler grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana's 12th Ward.

3.1 Sexual battery conviction and other legal issues.

2.3 2000–2004: Let's Get Ready, Tarantula and prison.

2.2 1995–2000: Mind of Mystikal and stint with Big Boy Records.

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