Young Getty

Young Getty is a rapper, songwriter and the founder of The Hub 760: twenty years on record out of Deep Valley, Oceanside, and the artist a generation of North County learned the standard from. He walked away from a major label deal and built a building instead.

He was providing for his family before anyone asked him to, and he was a father young. Both facts sit under the decision that defines his career.

The stage came first. He is on video battling C-NOTE at the Beachside Grill in 2011, and performing with N.A.N. as early as 2008. Those are the years the freestyle reputation was built in, in front of people rather than on record.

New York made his name. He ran with N.A.N., managed by AD, who made the introduction that shaped everything after: Jesse Wilson, who records as Corporal, a Grammy-nominated writer and producer with credits on Beyoncé’s Renaissance, a long run with Ne-Yo, and sessions with Snoop Dogg, Usher and Justin Bieber. Corporal executive produced and engineered My O’side Story, still the record he is known for and now nearly twenty years old.

Atlantic was on the table in the same stretch Rick Ross signed his. By every measure of that industry it was the moment to take it. He went home instead, back to Oceanside and to his girlfriend, the mother of his daughters, and spent the years that followed learning the business and raising his children. Young Phenomenon had gone up in March 2006; the expanded My O’side Story did not reach Apple Music until April 2018. The streaming catalogue that starts in 2013 is a fact about distribution, not about him.

What he built in those years does not appear in a tracklist. He mentored the artists who made Style & Soul and the swag era: T Nasty, 2MuchFinessse, and a long line of others who came up around them. He produced Corrion’s “2 Min Marathon” at his home studio years before either of them was on a roster. The Deep Valley run that followed is his lineage as much as theirs.

The second education was in business, taken from watching Nipsey Hussle represent his own few blocks and then buy them, turning a neighbourhood into something ownable rather than something to leave. When Nipsey was killed, Getty wrote “R.I.P. Nipsey”, released in 2019 among the nine releases carrying his name. When the Hub ran its back-to-school giveaway in 2025, Black Sam donated Marathon merchandise to it, a bike among it.

He has worked with C2100 since 2016. He was incarcerated in 2018, and on his release in 2020 the two of them began building what became The Hub 760. He started writing again in the same period. Tales Of The Deep is finished and coming, with further projects alongside 2MuchFinessse, T Nasty, Don3 and Corrion.

He opened the Hub in 2021 so that someone else in Oceanside would have a door to walk through, and has run it as an advocate since: free haircuts for the kids, shelf space for people without a storefront. Jayo Felony and Jefe Ice came out to host the 2025 giveaway with him.

Twenty years on, the line runs straight. A kid who provided early, a father before he was ready, a self-made operator who took the long version of the story and now owns the room. He is recording again, and he wants the music to do what the building already does.

West coast hip-hop built on Oceanside — street narrative over heavy low end, engineered for the car.