DJBooth.net has an interview with Yung Joc. In the article, Joc says nothing of his next album
not being released on Bad Boy and the article says that it will be released on Swagg Team/Bad Boy/Atlantic, but the author does not give a source for this information.
DJ Booth: What’s up is, it’s a brand new year, so we had to get you inside the Booth. I need to know, though, Hustlenomics dropped in August of 2007 – have you just been vacationing for a year and a half? Tell everybody what you’ve been up to.
Yung Joc: I never stopped working, man! Let’s be real, and start the interview off the best way we can possibly start it off: we’re gonna be honest with it. Okay, everybody knows that Hustlenomics wasn’t the classic album I would’ve liked it to be, it didn’t perform as well as I would’ve liked it to, okay, great – we all make mistakes, we all fall down sometimes, but the part that people respect the most is when you can get back up, get back on your grind, and do it all over again and make some noise again. That’s what it’s all about, so to ask me, where have I been have I been vacationing, hell no! I’ve been workin’. I’ve been workin’ on my third album, Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood. [In] 2008, I turned my whole situation around. It was crazy; after Hustlenomics dropped, nobody called me right away like, “Hey man, I want you on a record.” It was like, “Hey, I don’t know about Joc, man; I think he fell off.” I turned right around in 2008 – if you take the time to look at it, for the whole year, I was on three top 10 singles.
DJ Booth: You were honest with me; you said Hustlenomics did not meet the commercial standards set by its predecessor, of course your debut, New Joc City. Specifically, what do you think happened?
Yung Joc: I’m gonna be honest, man, I’m gonna tell you the truth: it’s what it is. When I came to the table with my first album, I peaked my first album. I didn’t do it by myself – it was a collective effort – but I came to the table with “It’s Goin’ Down” and “I Know You See It” and “Dope Boy Magic.” Those were three singles off my album. I came to the table, before I signed, before I did any business dealings with Bad Boy, Atlantic, Block Entertainment, or anybody. Come around on the second go, certain people came in – I’m not gonna say names, but they know who they are – like “Nah, I wanna do this now, ‘cause you did that already, and people want something new,” and I was like, “I don’t know, I want people to hear this, I want people to hear that,” and they were like, “We’re gonna do it this way,” and I’m just like, “A’ight.” I’m gonna be honest, I’m gonna tell you the truth: I wasn’t happy with the project.
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