The album's cover artwork was revealed on February 15, 2014. The ominous red image displays a moon and clouds with a castle in the distance. On February 22, 2014, the album's track listing was announced, revealing appearances on the final version of the album from Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Mack Maine, Tyga, Jae Millz, Cory Gunz, Christina Milan, Gudda Gudda, Lil Twist, Shanell, Chanel West Coast, PJ Morton, Euro and Flow. It revealed additional guest appearances outside of Young Money from YG, Meek Mill, Yo Gotti and Birdman. On January 22, 2014, Young Money released the album's first single "We Alright", featuring Lil Wayne, Birdman and the label's newest signee Euro. The Colin Tilley-directed music video was released on February 15, 2014. The video features cameo appearances from multiple members of Young Money. "Senile" originally started as a single for Tyga, who then got Nicki Minaj featured on it, then Lil Wayne. Due to Tyga's fourth studio album not coming out till later in the year, they just decided to release it as a single for the compilation album. On February 10, 2014, Tyga revealed the cover artwork for the D.A. Doman-produced "Senile". He also said that the single would be released on February 17, 2014, however it would be pushed back slightly. Then on February 24, 2014, the song was premiered online as a promotional single. On April 13, 2014, the music video was released for "Senile". On February 27, 2014, "Trophies" featuring Drake and "Lookin Ass" featuring Nicki Minaj were released as the second and third official singles. Then on March 4, 2014, "Trophies" was serviced to rhythmic contemporary radio in the United States. "Lookin Ass" was then serviced to urban contemporary radio in the United States on March 11, 2014. "Young Money: Rise of an Empire" was met with generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 55, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally mixed reviews". Melanie Sims of the Associated Press said, "Lil Wayne isn't just the founder of Young Money Cash Money Billionaires, he's the rap squad's captain, too. And on ""Rise of an Empire"," Weezy plays his role well, anchoring a winning compilation from the camp, and making up for last year's lackluster "I Am Not a Human Being II"."