While Yung Berg only lasted one season on VH1’s Love & Hip Hop Hollywood, the Chicago rapper/producer is in the midst of a musical comeback.
After pulling three production and four writing credits on Nicki Minaj’sThe Pinkprint, Yung Berg is now plotting his own return as a solo artist. Speaking with HipHopDX about his life in music up to this point, Berg broke down some of his career highs and lows.
Explaining why he thinks his openness to working with other artists has been his greatest asset, Berg name-dropped several rappers and producers who he began working with before they established widespread success.
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“The greatest thing that I ever thought of doing was bringing my brothers and being on Twitter and being open to other artists and producers and signing and believing in other people,” he said in a clip that debuted as a part of today’s DX Daily. “And bringing other talent around me. I remember back in the day when I was doing a bunch of mixtapes, Rockstar, who is now Kid Ink, was just a producer who used to be around me. We used to kick it, smoke, hang out, everyday. He wasn’t even rapping at that point I was just like, ‘Yo, rap. We in the studio getting turned up.’ He was able to take that and flip that and have major success. I’m happy about that. At the end of the day, the world doesn’t have to know all this story but I’m able to sleep well at night knowing that there’s been major people that I’ve been involved with, whether it’s Sincere Show who runs L.A. who I brought out to L.A. from the very first point. Whether it’s Rob Holladay who produced all my records who now is producing for Diddy. Whether it’s Ayo The Producer, who I discovered, that’s done records for Drake and all these different people. Arch The Boss…These people I just met on Twitter and randomly, I didn’t know these people and I’m able to affect their lives like that. That’s what I’m really proud of.”
As for his biggest regret, Berg recalled an incident in 2008 where he was assaulted in a Detroit club.
“My biggest regret, when that happened with me and Detroit and that situation with the Transformer chain or whatever,” he said of the infamous chain-snatching. “It had nothing to do with me. I didn’t go with my gut. I was headlining the Summer Jam at that point, my gut instinct was, ‘Even though I’m fucked up and I’m bruised up and this is happened, I’m gonna go headline that show ’cause I got people and fans who really don’t give a fuck about what happened in that club who really enjoy me that I need to go and touch.’ Instead I got on a private jet and went back to Atlanta and I didn’t speak about anything. That’s my biggest regret ever. If I’d have been more vocal, maybe people would have understood me. Maybe I would have been able to grab other people, maybe that wouldn’t have chased me for so long. At the end of the day I’m humble and I’m happy because God has blessed me to reemerge to do this again. So it’s all good.”
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