| Net Worth | $8,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Jasiel Amon Robinson |
| Date of Birth/Age | April 2, 1983 (Age: 36) |
| Source of wealth | Musician, reality television star |
| Height | 5’7’’ |
| Country of origin | U.S |
| State/City of origin | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Last Updated | 2019 |
Net Worth
Yung Joc’s net worth is $8,000,000.
How Much Does Yung Joc Make a Year?
Since becoming a reality television star, Yung Joc’s yearly income has risen to over 1.8 million a year. This amount varies depending on record sales and television appearances.
How Does Yung Joc Make his Money?
Most of Yung Joc’s income comes from his music and his television career. He made approximately $500, 000 from the record sales of his gold record “New Joc City” and $250,000 from “Hustlenomics.”
He has said he made $7-8 million off “New Joc City” in publishing and licensing rights as well. He has earned $15,000 from the licensing of his single “It’s Goin’ Down.”
He earns money any time a single is played on the radio or on Spotify or Pandora.
He makes $15,000 from each show he performs as well. Additionally, he earns a fee from any records or singles he produces as part of his Swag Team Entertainment production company.
He earns a salary of $50,000 per episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.” Since he has appeared in 82 episodes so far, this is a huge portion of his wealth. It is rumored that he made a similar salary for his two seasons on “Leave It to Stevie.”
He earns smaller but steady amounts from YouTube views of his music videos and his contract with Rap Snacks. He also owns a hair salon and luxury car rental business in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Introduction
Yung Joc is a musician and television star who rose to fame in 2006 with his hit single “It’s Goin’ Down.” He is well known for the motorcycle dance popularized by its video.
He’s collaborated with many other musicians on hit singles and has now moved into television and movies. He stars on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” and several of its spinoffs.
Early Life
Jasiel Amon Robinson was born on April 2, 1983, in the College Park area of Atlanta, Georgia. His father owned a hair care products company.
Yung Joc has kept information about his mother and siblings private, but it is known he has several full and half-siblings.
He was a hard-working kid and always had several jobs while attending high school. He worked in a deli, a zoo, and a car wash while still maintaining good grades.
He participated in theater in high school and had dreams of being a lawyer. Due to moving around, he fell behind in school credits and dropped out instead of repeating a grade.
Yung Joc collaborated with his father to write a jingle for Revlon and his musical career began there. He credits his father as his inspiration for his success and they are very close.
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Personal Life
Yung Joc has a son, Amoni, with his high school girlfriend Fatimah. They separated in 2001.
He was married to Alexandria Robinson from 2001 until 2014. They have three children: Chase, Amir, and Ja’Kori.
Since his separation from his wife, he has had two sets of twins with two girlfriends. All his relationships have been very public and part of the “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” storyline.
He dated actress Carla Daniels from 2012 to 2013. Their children are twins Cadence and Camora.
He dated entrepreneur, and actress Sina Bina from 2013 to 2014. Yung Joc had twins Eden and Allon with her.
He dated and lived with his “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” costar, musician Karlie Redd in 2014 and had brief relationships with co-stars Tommie Lee and Khadiyah.
He has been in a serious relationship with Kendra Robinson, a lawyer, since 2016. They became engaged in 2019.
Yung Joc is known for being a bit dramatic but has a sense of humor about it. He has appeared on social media with some fantastical new hair cuts and enjoys the attention. He has claimed to have made memes mocking himself and circulated them on the internet.
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Career
After dropping out of high school, he worked for a construction company. He eventually found a job writing lyrics for Raw Deal Records.
Yung Joc met producer Nitti Beatz who produced his first single “It’s Goin’ Down.” In 2006, Yung Joc signed a three-album deal with Bad Boy South Records for $2.5 million dollars.
Yung Joc’s first album, “New Joc City” debuted at number three on the Billboard charts in 2006. It shortly went gold, selling over 500,000 copies.
The second single, “I Know You See It” went platinum and the third single, “1st Time” went gold.
He released two mixtapes online, “Joc of All Spades” and “Joc is Back” between 2006 and 2008.
He was nominated for six BET Hip Hop Awards, three Billboard awards, and two MTV Video Music awards in 2006.
His first single “It’s Goin’ Down” won the BET award for Hip Hop Track of the Year that year. He was also nominated for a Grammy and two Soul Train Music awards in 2007 as well.
His second album, “Hustlenomics” also debuted at number three on the charts in 2007. Yung Joc featured on several tracks by other artists including Cassie and Danity Kane. He released a third mixtape “Grind Flu” online in 2009.
He continued to release singles and collaborate with other on their singles and albums. He worked with Gucci Mane, Game, and Pleasure P on very successful singles and started work on his next album. He featured on the number one single “Buy U a Drank” with T-Pain in 2007.
His forthcoming “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood” was delayed by a break-in to his studio and the disbanding of the J Records label on Arista Records. He released three more mix tapes between 2010 and 2012.
In 2014, Yung Joc started his acting career on the reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.” He also appeared on the reality shows “Leave It to Stevie” and “Scared Famous.” He had small roles in the movies “Merry Wish-Mas” and “Products of the American Ghetto” in 2018.
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Interesting Facts
- His first musical inspiration was Run DMC.
- He owns several sports cars including a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mercedes CLS.
- He enjoys being outrageous and getting his internet fans talking. He appeared in a blue dress in public in 2017 and more recently, had a portrait of Tupac Shakur shaved into his hair.
- His cousin is Momma Dee, another actress on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.”
- His mother gave him the nickname Joc from a character on the television show “Dallas.”
- He advises new musicians to save and budget instead of splurging during those first years of fame.
Highlights
He was featured at number 20 in Forbes 2007 list of richest hip-hop stars.
He had a number one hit with T-Pain on “Buy U a Drank” in 2007.
During the first year of his success, he was so exhausted from touring and promoting that he fell asleep during an interview. This generated more attention and fame for the hard-working musician.
After the success of his first album, he opened a luxury car rental business and a hair salon in Atlanta. He also developed a line of chips with the Rap Snacks brand.
He formed his own record label, called Swag Team Entertainment, which produced the popular song “Stanky Leg.”
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Favorite Quotes from Yung Joc
“It’s emotion. When you are watching a movie, you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and you see butterflies flying in the background and then you suddenly hear scary movie music and it changes the whole thing. But if something sounds different it changes the movie. Music is the backdrop of what you talk about.”
“By the time ‘It’s Going Down’ had took off I was on like two, three tours at one time. Going to a city and you do a daytime show for some kids and these people pay you 20, 25,000. And then at night you do the arena for the adults…And you talking about you look up and I’m getting 30,000. It’s like 50,000 in one day. You do the math. It really wasn’t hard.”
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Tips for success from Yung Joc
- “See, because I played behind the scenes so much, I already knew what to expect. So, I started getting myself ready. I was creating work for myself to do. People were telling me to take a rest and saying “damn, you already acting like you going on MTV or something.” In my mind, I was because I knew it was what I’d have to do in the near future.”
- “Every day I wake up I’m fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I’m fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn’t call, I’m not making money so when he does call, I know I’m making money.”
- “But just as fast as the money was coming, the money was going because you still had to promote yourself. I feel like that’s why I was successful the way I was. I ate a very long time. I’m still eating. I get publishing checks monthly, quarterly. Do you know what I’m saying? So, it wasn’t hard.”
