The Young Chris half of the Young Gunz has been going hard the last three months. With him and partner Neef being from the streets of Philly, it was merely a dream come true to be signed to one of Hip Hop’s glamorous labels. Jay-Z was at the top of the game and who in the world would turn to an opportunity to be under one of Hip Hop’s greatest emcees along with two businessman that keep it in order (Dame and Biggs).  As they say on the other hans nothing last forever and before you knew it news was all-over that Jay and Dame was splitting and the Roc-A-Fella break-up was coming right before your eyes.

During their tenure before the split at Roc-A-Fella, The Young Gunz dropped two albums. Without warning, like the rest of State Property, the day-to-day operations seemingly stopped, despite solid numbers coming out of the sophomore effort. Many assumed that they were over with, but as of recently if you keep your ear to the street Young Chris has been dropping some fire. Dropping mixtape after mixtape shows he is definitely hungry again and want to show what got him in the game in the first place being a Roc-A-Fella soldier. Now you can hear from the man himself on Dame and Jay giving his personal opinion about the split, what’s really good with Neef, State Property, and why it’s his year.

HipHopDX: Chris, you been grinding lately and I respect that. It’s been a while since the Young Gunz dropped an album and now you have a lot of motivation going hard so what got into you to release a lot of heat right now?
Young Chris: Well I been doing it, I’ve been working I just wanted to wait for timing and everything, let’s get that right. Timing is everything, and to make a long story short, the music been here. The majority of it the records y'all hearing now was probably recorded in '06 to '07. I’m still going in to this day where I’m just tearing the Internet up, sending stuff to DX, everybody, every site we can do. I’m just staying on top of it man, they respected my flow from day one it’s just we took a break too long. The reason I came back and was going hard like that is because they don’t respect the past. I’m got to show them I still hungry, I’m starving, and I still got it.

DX: You dropped some major mixtapes which were The New Print and another was Young ChrisXmas with DJ Green Lantern, so how does it feel for the streets to hear you again?
YC: It’s love man, I feel like a new artist. That’s what I was feeling like when I was in the studio recording all those records. That’s where the hunger is coming from, I got a 4 year old daughter, [and] my mother, I got to keep that mortgage up.

DX: Speaking on The New Print, it’s a Jay-Z-inspired mixtape so can you explain to the people out here what made you decide to do something of that nature?
YC: Well shout-out to Mick Boogie, and everybody. He came to me with the idea like you should do a joint with all Jay beats and that’s how it went down, the rest is history. When they came to me with the idea I went right in on it. I did what I did and it stuck, I respect him for it and thanks again for that.

DX: Can you talk about the process of how you got connected with Mick Boogie in the first place?
YC: Yeah through my man Rich in Cleveland he worked with LeBron. Basically, when I told him my situation, he deejays for the Cavaliers and once he found out that Rich was dealing with me he was more than happy to make it work. To make a long story short, once I got with Rich, it all went well.

DX: That’s what’s up you on your grind heavy!
YC: Yes, I’m on my way to the studio now; it don’t stop.

DX: Let me ask you about Roc-A-Fella, how does it feel being an artist that was signed to a label that had the game on smash, but a lot of people want to know how you feel about the split between Dame and Jay?
YC: Yeah man I was fucked up about it, I was real fucked up about it because my love was equal for both of them. When I first came up at 15 years old Jay, Dame and Biggs was in the room together. A lot of people don’t know that I met Jay and them before I met anybody in State Property, except Neef. Neef was the only one that I came with, I meet him in middle school in seventh grade, I came in the game with him. Everybody else, Beans, Freeway, all them we met up at the label. We didn’t know each other from the streets or none of that, but eventually we grew love for each other. We’ve been around each other everyday, real recognize real, and we all from the same city so that’s how it went down. I was fucked up about it, I was fucked up about the split man, because it stopped everything. It stopped everything, [Dame and Jay] wasn’t fucking with each other, niggas had to choose sides, you know it was fucked up, man. It was fucked up, and my decision was with Jay, because I was on tour with Jay at the time when the tension was building up. He pulled us to the side and let us know we were a big part of his decision, me Freeway, Neef, I’m not sure if Peed,i was there or not and he let us know we was a big part of his decision and top of the year we was gonna make it happen. Which he did when we released Brothers From Another he kept his word, but it ain’t do as predicted. Were still here man, were still grinding, I’m still Roc-A-Fella, I’m still fighting, and it ain’t over. Continued on page 2 »