We were lucky to catch up with Christopher Yungchriisbeats recently and have shared our conversation below.

Christopher , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Talk about a loaded question, lol, well I can break that down in sections. As a business owner, actor and music producer, rule number 1 for me was to not go into these fields thinking you already know everything, be open in terms of learning new information, simply because what worked for someone else, most likely won’t be your path. Starting “Seven Fourteen Publishing LLC” which is my music publishing company was about a year process, while starting the company wouldn’t have taken so long, I didn’t really know what publishing really was, so I took take to learn it, what publishing can do for me in the music world, as well as its importance, then I sat in on a music publishing panel by accident, and talk about being in the right place at the right time, I learned so much and knew, yep this is where I needed to be, then I started the state and federal process, then registered with B.M.I and here I am now. I think I can safely say I applied this mindset to acting, music, and running my company and that’s why I been making so much progress.

My most essential skills were patience, trusting the process, and keeping an open mind, again go into it humble and being open to new information.

My biggest problem starting off was not knowing “where to look” yeah you have the internet but you can only learn so much, so for me it was about networking and sitting on on seminars and even getting advice from my lawyers.

Honestly I wouldn’t have sped up the process at all, it was a strategic plan and needed to take that long, rushing into anything is never good.

Christopher , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Christopher Espinoza, aka Yungchriisbeats, I am a CEO of “Seven Fourteen Publishing LLC”, actor, and music producer. I come from South Central Los Angeles, I got into the industry at the age of 17. Started making beats, then began acting in 2019, started my publishing company this year 2023. I have filmed in many tv shows from “The Rookie”, “American Horror Story”, “Mayans” & many more, even music videos with Wiz Khalifa to Diplo, I have also been In commercials for NFL, U.S Bank, Nike/Jordan, to Foot Locker. If you need any dope beats, I’m the guy.

I have music on Apple Music, Spotify, and I am currently in the process of releasing “City Dreams”, if you like the weekend, or daft punk, your gonna love this album, but of course I can’t leave hip-hop/r&b alone, “1990” is almost done, both albums I worked with some amazing talented artists.

What sets me apart is my work ethic and my visions, I dream big, and go hard for what I want, also my easy going personality, and being fair, which is really rare In this industry, but don’t get it twisted I’m not a push over lol so don’t try it.

Also I take pride and I’m proud to give back, I always do food drives for those in need, and I don’t take pictures or videos, simply because I don’t do it for clicks and likes. I do it because this is where I came from. I was poor growing up, and was raised by a single mother.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Man its definitely seeing peoples reaction to your craft, musically, seeing people bob their heads, or dance, or even sing along is such a high.

Acting wise, if people watch you and don’t look at the screen as if they know you, you’ve done your job, real actors will understand what I just said lol.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Support support support!!! Buy merchandise, buy tickets, buy those songs, go stream those albums, tell a friend about us. Artists really appreciate it I’m telling you.

Keep art alive and thriving, not because some do it for popularity, but because real artist who care about the craft exist, it’s definitely a game of popularity vs talented right now.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yungchriisbeats/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/yungchriisbeats
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6o7ErPotSdC5k8lS5L9D3V

Image Credits
S.Espinoza