You can listen to a snippet of this track on iTunes.

Today marks the first Bad Boy release since "Ridin High" by 8 Ball & MJG was released on March 13. It's "Hustlenomics" by Yung Joc. You can buy it now on Amazon.com. For information on bonus versions, please check out the our previous story on the subject.


1. Hustlenomics (Intro)
2. Play Your Cards
3. Coffee Shop featuring Gorilla Zoe
4. Bottle Poppin' featuring Gorilla Zoe
5. Hell Yeah featuring Diddy
6. Cut Throat featuring The Game, Jim Jones and Block
7. Hustlemania (Skit)
8. I'm A G featuring Bun B and Young Dro
9. BYOB
10. Pak Man
11. Getting To Da Money featuring Mike Carlito and Gorilla Zoe
12. Brand New featuring Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross
13. Living the Life featuring Southern Girl
14. Momma featuring Jazze Pha
15. Chevy Smile featuring Trick Daddy, Block and Jazze Pha
16. Hustlenomics
Bonus Track: Block Boy featuring Block

I'm just watching 106 & Park, waiting for the Making the Band 4 Guys and Juelz Santana (co-hosting today) mentioned that Joc will be performing live tomorrow on the show.

Joc was featured in the August 18 issue of Billboard on in a feature on Chris Hicks. He's featured in a list of writers that were brought to Warner/Chappell Music by Mr. Hicks. In a list of 20 poeple (ordered by number of titles to chat on the Hot 100 or R&B;/Hip Hop Songs charts), Joc is T7th, behind only Bryan-Michael Cox, Jazze Pha, T.I., Lil' Wayne, Danjahandz and Paul Wall. Bad Boy, Diddy and Boyz N Da Hood are briefly mentioned in the article. It also features a couple of quotes from Block and how Hicks helped him when he was getting into the music industry.

In the August 15 issue, "Hustlenomics" gets a half page write up, focusing on the upcoming album and the marketing push behind it. It notes that Joc will have a line of potato chips through Rap Snacks (their site already lists some Yung Joc snacks available) as well as a line of jewelry (designed by him) through Icebox.

Deepa Shah at AllHipHop.com has a fairly unkind review of "Hustlenomics".


Via Theo in the forums.

Circuit City will have an exclusive bonus track. No word on what it is, but I report back when I find out.

Best Buy will have 2 exclusive bonus tracks. Again, no word on what they are.

K-Mart will have an exclusive Yung Joc voicetone.

The Japanese version will apparently feature "It's Goin' Down", if the Amazon.com page for it is any indication.

And then we'll have the normal and MVI versions. For more on the MVI version, see our story on it.

How in the world is "Hustlenomics" not on iTunes for pre-order? It's August 26! The album comes out in two days. Wow. That's really disappointing.

Listen to it on our audio player on the right side of this page.

I saw an ad on Joc's MySpace for this page which lists locations for Screamfest '07 afterparties hosted by Yung Joc. The last 5 dates are the ones that remain. Unfortunately, 3 of them are dead links. The exceptions are San Jose (with "special invited guest" Gorilla Zoe) and the first Los Angeles show.

While listening to "Hustlenomics", I noticed that Gorilla Zoe is featured on "Getting To Da Money" along with Mike Carlito.