As previously reported Joc spoke on taking both entities to court for unpaid royalties and fighting to be released from the business arrangements.Now with the paperwork signed and the connections officially negated, Joc is speaking out about his new deal and freedom.

Rumors have been swirling recently that Joc would be further solidify his ties to Jive Records, who distributes his Swagg Team Entertainment label, and make the record company his new home.

While not confirming the rumors, Joc did express to HipHopWired that after a two year struggle to be released, he had indeed moved on.

“I just closed my new deal as an artist I'm very happy of that, I fought a very long time for the last 2 years of my life to get out of my past experience, just closed my new one, so be looking for the kid, it's time to step it up and do it one more time.”

When he asked if he felt that moving away from Diddy's powerhouse and Block allowed him more freedom, he quickly replied:

“There's no feeling, I do. I definitely do, I'm my own man, I'm my own entity, Swag Team Entertainment is the label and hey I'm good.”

HipHopWired also made sure to ask for further details on Swag Team, who is responsible for Louisiana's home team that introduced the world to the “Stanky Leg”, The GS Boys, and HotStylz, the group that produced 2008's hit “Looking Boi.”

Speaking on his own label Joc gave us an update on what's to come for the New Year. While reluctant to give exact details, Joc mentions that he has artists lined up to carry the label's legacy.

“Right now I'm looking forward to 2010, making it a bigger and better year, bigger and better movement. A lot of new artists will be distributed through Jive on Swag Team Entertainment, too many to name right now. You'll know it when you see it, when the time is appropriate to name names then that will be done.”

It should also be mentioned that Joc is in the process of pitching a new reality show. HipHopWired spotted him being followed by a camera crew as he partied with his longtime friend and industry veteran Devyne Stephens at a recent party in Atlanta.

HipHopWired will keep you posted on any new developments with Joc, his new label, and possible reality show as they become available.

In July, Joc recorded his version of Drake's "Successful" where he addressed issues with his former boss with bars like:

“My opposition's ambitions is to foul me so flagrant/ And Russell I've been very patient, trying not to turn you into a D.O.A. patient / So face it my minds another caliber, Pimp I'm light years, you're still Gallagher/ The roof, the roof is on fire, nah its just this bridge right here liar liar / Aiight I'm tired of going in on it so I'mma ask God to go ahead and lay his hands on me… Amen”

Yung Joc previously spoke with Hip-Hop Wired about the stall of his pending third album and money disputes which have brought the situation to a head.  He said,

“I would love to have Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood out this year for my fans but unfortunately I have to take Block Entertainment and Bad Boy Entertainment to court because I have to take action for unpaid royalties.

I've been trying for the last year and a half to get my business affairs taken care of with these two entities and Mr. Sean Combs hasn't personally been a part of making this a problem but I've reached out to him and asked him to resolve this. So after a while after you continue asking someone to resolve this who has the power and it's not getting resolved, then they become part of the problem.

So personally Sean Combs is not directly in this but I've asked and made some attempts for his help in getting my unpaid royalties, the advances for my albums. [I'm having] people in the Bad Boy regime try and coerce me and give me ultimatums to sign a f*cked up deal with Block Entertainment just to put my music out and I'm not doing it. It'll never happen. I'm not doing it. I've never signed or had a contract with Block Entertainment so I'm not gonna do one now. So they pretty much saying I got to sign a f*cked up deal in order to put my album out.”

In an interview with Ballerstatus, Joc revealed,

“I just got my release and one of the terms of the release was a defamation clause, so honestly, I can't really talk about it too much. I've been released, severed the business ties. May God bless them and their regime, but I'm doing my own thing now.

I'm actually in negotiations right now with a few labels. I just choose not to call out the different entities. Things are looking very good, God is very good. When I was going through this whole thing with the Bad Boy/Block situation, I didn't know what the other side was going to be. I didn't know if there was going to be light on the other end. I was hopeful, but it's actually working out for the best. I ain't mad, nobody's mad right now, everything is good.”

In the mix of the label turmoil, Joc released the independent album/mixtape Grind Flu and has been running his own label Swagg Team Entertainment.  The hits under that umbrella include the GS Boyz' “Stanky Leg” and Hot Stylez' “Lookin' Boy.”

On the track which is probably unofficial, Joc airs out Block spitting:

“I just want to put my sh*t out… I must be heard.

My opposition's ambitions is to foul me so flagrant/ And Russell I've been very patient, trying not to turn you into a D.O.A. patient / So face it my minds another caliber, Pimp I'm light years, you're still Gallagher/ The roof, the roof is on fire, nah its just this bridge right here liar liar / Aiight I'm tired of going in on it so I'mma ask God to go ahead and lay his hands on me… Amen”

Yung Joc previously spoke with Hip-Hop Wired about the stall of his pending third album and money disputes which have brought the situation to a head.

“I would love to have Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood out this year for my fans but unfortunately I have to take Block Entertainment and Bad Boy Entertainment to court because I have to take action for unpaid royalties.

I've been trying for the last year and a half to get my business affairs taken care of with these two entities and Mr. Sean Combs hasn't personally been a part of making this a problem but I've reached out to him and asked him to resolve this. So after a while after you continue asking someone to resolve this who has the power and it's not getting resolved, then they become part of the problem.

So personally Sean Combs is not directly in this but I've asked and made some attempts for his help in getting my unpaid royalties, the advances for my albums. [I'm having] people in the Bad Boy regime try and coerce me and give me ultimatums to sign a fu*ked up deal with Block Entertainment just to put my music out and I'm not doing it. It'll never happen. I'm not doing it. I've never signed or had a contract with Block Entertainment so I'm not gonna do one now. So they pretty much saying I got to sign a fu*ked up deal in order to put my album out.”

Continuing to release material through the streets and mixtapes with tracks like “The Grind Flu” and supplementing his income with his label Swagg Team Entertainment which has been killing the airwaves with the GS Boyz “Stanky Leg “ for the past six months, Young Joc further commented on Diddy's standoffish behavior and not backing down from Block.

“Russell “Block” Spencer, I don't think there's cohesiveness upon his entity and myself as an entertainer, artist or business man so I no longer wish to do business with him and I'm not contractually bound to do business with him so therefore I don't think it's right for people inside the Bad Boy regime to coheres me into signing and that they won't put my album out if I don't sign paper work with him.

Puff was like, ‘You know what, you kind of came to me through Block. I personally don't want to intervene in ya'll business but I really feel that it's time for ya'll to take care of this because I'm really ready to put out a new Yung Joc album. I love Young Joc.' That's what he told me but after you continue hearing the same song and dance, that sh*t gets old.”

Standing strong, Joc also added, “They feel I'm gonna fold because with the average artist this is what happens. They buck the system and go all out on the news and the media and then they money slow down. When they money slow down , that's when they have to crawl back to the label and then the label throw them scraps and when they redo their paper work or whatever, then they really have a fu**ed up contract. Well I'm not doing that. I got a lot of money saved, I've done well. God has been good. Family straight, kids' college funds are good. So I'm not prepared to do shady business.”

Way to stand tall Joc. Just keep supplying the streets with some heat and that pressure will eventually break the corporate pipes.

Check out the “Successful” remix here with Yung Joc in The Wired Tracks section.