Yung Joc: Biography in Details
Who is Yung Joc?
Yung Joc is a popular American Hip-hop Rapper. He is well known for his 2006 hit single ‘It’s Goin’ Down’, ‘Coffee Shop’, and ‘I Know You See It’.
Yung Joc: Age, Family, Ethnicity
Yung Joc, actual name Jasiel Amon Robinson, was born on April 2, 1983. As of 2021, he is 38 years old and falls under the zodiac sign, Aries.
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, so he holds an American nationality and he belongs to the African-American ethnicity.
Speaking of his family background, his father’s name is Stanley Tucker but his mother’s name has not been revealed. His father is the owner of the hair-care product company.
Also, there are no known details on his siblings. Other information on any of his relatives or cousins is not known either. But it seems he was raised up in an understanding housing.
In which school did Yung Joc attend?
Regarding his studies, the name and information of the institution are not yet given at the moment.
However, it is known that he aspired to be a basketball player back in his teenage days but his parents objected to his idea of it. Later, he followed in his father’s footsteps and found his own passion to become a rapper.
Yung Joc: Profession/ Career
Yung Joc began his career as a rapper in 2005 after he collaborated with Nitti Beatz and released his first hit song ‘It’s Goin Down’.
After his fame, he got signed to the label ‘Bad Boy South’ and issued his debut album titled ‘New Joc City’. Then he released his single ‘I Know U See It’.
This song as well as the song ‘It’s Goin Down’ gained a lot of popularity and reaches #3 and #17 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2007, he released his second album named ‘Hustlenomics’. This album included the tracks ‘Bottle Poppin’ and ‘Coffee Shop’.
Then his career boosted up slowly. In 2008, he got featured in the songs ‘So Fly’, ‘Get Like Me’, and ‘Beep’. In 2009, he released a mixtape ‘Grind Flu’ on his label website Swagg Team Entertainment.
Later, he released his single ‘Yeah Boy’ from his album titled ‘Mr. Robinson’s Neighbourhood’. The rapper launched his first official single ‘I Got Bitches’ second single ‘Features’ for his third album in 2014.
Television career
In the year 2014, he was cast as a supporting member in VH1’s reality show ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’. After that, he took part in ‘Leave it To Stevie’ which is still going on.
He was also featured in Danity Kane’s song ‘Show Stopper’. Yung competed in the first season of VH1’s Scared Famous which was premiered on October 23, 2017.
Currently, he is into influencing the younger generation. He even began driving for a Rideshare Company to influence the youth and show them that any job is big and there’s no shame in doing any type of work.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
| 2014–present | Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta | Supporting role (season 3-7)Main cast (season 8–present) |
| 2016–2018 | Leave It to Stevie | Himself |
| 2017 | Scared Famous | Himself (contestant) |
| 2021 | Wild ‘n Out | Himself (season 15, episode 25) |
Awards, Nominations
Yung has won an award once under the title ‘Hip-Hop Track of the Year’ for his song ‘It’s Goin Down’ at the BET Hip Hop Awards. Further, he has been nominated numerous times throughout his career.
| Year | Status | Title | Awards |
| 2006 | Nominated | Rookie of the Year | BET Hip Hop Awards |
| Best Live Performer |
| Hip-Hop Dance of the Year |
| Won | Hip-Hop Track of the Year |
| Nominated | Hip-Hop MVP of the Year |
| Rap Songs Artist of the Year | Billboard Music Awards |
| Top Rap Artist |
| Top R&B Song: It’s Goin’ Down |
| Best Rap Video: It’s Goin’ Down | MTV Video Music Awards
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| MTV2 Award: It’s Goin’ Down |
| 2007 | Monster Single of the Year: Buy U a Drank |
| Best Rap Song: It’s Goin’ Down | Grammy Awards |
| Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut: It’s Goin’ Down | Soul Train Music Awards |
| Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist | |
| 2008 | Hip-Hop Video of the Year: Get Like Me with David Banner & Chris Brown | BET Hip Hop Awards |
Yung Joc: Net worth, Salary, Assets
Yung Joc earns a pretty decent amount of money based on his popularity and his job as a Rapper. His net worth estimation is around $8 million. The exact amount of his assets are not given yet.
His main source of income is his Rap music career and Television shows. He lives quite a comfortable and luxurious life.
Is Yung Joc involved in any rumors and controversies?
The rapper has been quite involved in several rumors and controversies.
Yung Joc and Gucci Mane were the center of a controversy after the release of the latter’s song ‘Fuck The World’. In the song, Gucci sang,
‘I got all eyes on me like Pac did, but I ain’t tryin’ to go broke like Joc did’.
This triggered Joc and he responded by saying that Mane is an expert getting his name in other’s mouths and he said “I ain’t trippin’, I know what my financial situation is.”
Joc made the headlines back in 2009 as it was announced that he was about to sue Block Entertainment and Bad Boy Entertainment for unpaid royalties. Three years later, in 2012, these labels along with the rapper were sued by Master Mind Music, a local Atlanta record label, for copyright infringement.
Once it was reported that he got $70,000 worth of equipment stolen from his recording studio along with his upcoming album’s hard drive. Those never got released.
Joc sued his manager, Polo Hammond, for hiring a lookalike to perform in Joc’s place and keeping half of the profits from the gig. He believes that this has caused a violation of his rights as a public figure. He charged Hammond $6,000 on national TV on the show “Judge Faith”.
Height, Weight, Body measurement
Joc stands tall at the height of 68 inches (5 feet 8 inches) and weighs 67 kg (148 lb). Other information on his body measurement such as chest size, waist size, hips size, shoe size, etc is not available as of now. He has a healthy and fit body and an inspiring personality. Likewise, he has short black hair and a pair of dark brown eyes.
Social media: Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok
Yung Joc is active on some of his social media. He is available on Instagram as ‘@joclive‘ with over 1.2m followers. Also, he is active on Twitter under the username ‘@IAMYUNGJOC‘ and has gathered 165.7k followers. On Facebook, he is online by his own name ‘Yung Joc‘.
Trivia
- He loves watching football and his favorite team is Chicago Bears.
- Joc stated that creating the Forbes List in 2007 was the “worst thing” he had done cause people started asking him for favors.
- Yung once told MTV Cribs that he loves Jamaican food and ginger beer is one of his favorites.
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Yung Joc's Birthday Dates
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|
| 2024 | April | Tuesday |
| 2025 | April | Wednesday |
| 2026 | April | Thursday |
| 2027 | April | Friday |
| 2028 | April | Sunday |
