New Joc City [PA] (CD - 2006)

NEW JOC CITY is the debut album from ATL rapper Yung Juc. Indebted to the streetwise, Dirty South hardcore of Young Jeezy and T.I., Yung Juc's music is packed wall-to-wall with hypnotic, head-nodding beats, oozing samples, and chant-along choruses that lock in perfectly with his contemporaries' speaker-busting sounds. Juc's skills on the mic are strong, if not dazzling, but it is the frenetic bounce of NEW JOC CITY that most impresses. Produced and released on P. Diddy's Bad Boy South label, the album has the money and the muscle behind it to push it into wider circulation. minimize