Well that may be a more apt comparison than he intended, because Trump himself is an image and a name kept alive by public fascination despite a series of financial blunders that make him little more than a figurehead in his own casinos and resorts. Basically the only other things that Joc tells us in this song is that he drinks good, eats good, and lives good he even christens himself “the black Donald Trump” at one point. The other possibility is that he was a street entrepeneur, but we’ll get into that in a minute.
If VH-1’s “Behind the Music” has taught the public anything it’s that you can sell 20 million records and still be broke as hell once the record label takes 100% of the expenses out of an artist’s 5% of the profits. Otherwise he got a six-figure and up advance from Bad Boy for the release of his first album, but an “advance” is just that – advance money to be recouped from future record sales. First of all if you’re so fly and so cool because you’re rich, can you tell us how you accumulated so much wealth so young (no pun intended) in life? If the biographies online are credible he probably got it from his poppa, who owned a hair care products company and apparently had some ties to the Revlon company – they all say Joc’s first rap was a “jingle” for the latter at his father’s request. Niggaz throw the deuces er’ytime I ride by Just like her mama nice ass and nice brain
Pistol in my lap, on the phone countin dough Tell ’em College Park, where they chop carsīeat in my trunk, bought it just for the freaks Nonetheless he’s got Bad Boy behind him pushing hard, and his first single “It’s Goin’ Down” has become immensely popular in a short amount of time:Īsk a million questions like ‘Joc where ya stay?’ Perhaps Yung Joc is hoping for that same kind of respect on “New Joc City” but he’s already got two strikes against him – strike one is that nobody had heard of him before 2006 and strike two is ripping off the name of the classic film “New Jack City” for a shitty pun is neither funny nor cute.
Even Lil’ Bow Wow and Lil’ Romeo had to admit the obvious and drop the Lil’ from their records to be taken seriously once they passed puberty, and only someone as thugged out as David Darnell Brown can get away with a name like Young Buck – he’ll stab you in the eye with a fork if you even dare to laugh. Still you have to wonder if Young MC questioned how his rap name would sound in his mid-30’s, or if the 24 year-old Dwayne Michael Carter still feels he’s a “Lil Wayne” instead of a full-grown man. Now admittedly a few of them actually fit the bill due to their diminutive stature – Lil’ Kim being a fine example. At some point the number of rap artists who are named “Young” or “Lil” is just a bit absurd.
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