The Prodigal Son is a repackaged German edition of the second disc of G-Funk Classics, Vols. 1-2, Nate Dogg's double-disc debut album, originally released in 1998 by Death Row Records and later split into two seperate albums, The Ghetto Preacher (i.e., the first disc, or volume) and The Prodigal Son, by secondary labels, in this case K-Town Records.