Jimmy ValenTime
A really good Lawyer
Dancin (Murder Remix)
Take it in Blood (Nas Salute)
cause your a nas fan bruh @Illeye buckmatic
Cd Bonus : FADE
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Jimmy ValenTime - Better Luck Tommorrow (Album Preview)
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Dancin (Murder Remix)
Take it in Blood (Nas Salute)
cause your a nas fan bruh @Illeye buckmatic
Cd Bonus : FADE
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Jimmy ValenTime
A really good Lawyer
Born to fly now ... flying high now ...
Jimmy ValenTime
A really good Lawyer
Here The Video for "Bad Decisions"
Album Press Release
Better Luck Tomorrow is Jimmy ValenTime's sophomore album and it shows both his growth as an artist and person. The songs capture the dark side of living the fast life in New York City. Jimmy adds, "The album is about all the different women, who have affected me in the last few years." The album explores a more mature subject matter then his 2011 debut Life in Amazin Times. Better Luck Tomorrow is about living with the choices you make and learning some things will not change. The album also about finding the strength to be the best person you can be regardless of circumstance. Jimmy explains “This album is me with all my influences distilled in to my own life. There a big shift between the two albums, before you could hear me copy my influences like Common or Nas, now you hear me talk about the things that matter to me.”
Lead Single "Bad Decisions" details the way two people react to a causal hook up that leaves the both of them empty. Jimmy explains “I wrote the song for a real person, somebody I was friends with that always seemed to make the wrong choices. She was a sweet girl, but always on the verge of self-destruction. I tried to imagine what cause her to be the way she was.” Spring single "Dancin" (On a Pole) again captured a real moment in Jimmy Valentime's life , using his trademark humor to describe a strip club from a regular guys prospective. Jimmy says the song is “about me going to a strip club and a woman trying to put all her troubles on my shoulder. At a certain point I had to cut her off and be like ‘this isn’t what I came here for"
Jimmy Valentime 2011 single and tribute to Nas "Take It in Blood" gets a remastering and is finally available for sale. Jimmy was able to get the blessing of his idol Nas record label Columbia to clear the record in time for the album. Jimmy adds “It's an honor to include this cover on my album and I feel it lets people see where I came from and who I was inspired by.” “Movin On” originally from The Lost Angel’s debut “Together, We Stand Alone” gets remade as a solo song and chronicles the aftermath of Jimmy’s best friend losing his mother in a car accident.
“The Spectacular Now” is the new single for Better Luck Tomorrow with production by Willie Green who has produced for and worked with Billy Woods and Wiz Khalifa. “The Spectacular Now” is a lyrical exercise as jimmy mocks rappers who can’t rhyme and use gimmicks and social media to get popular. The track is being offer as a free download till May 25th to celebrate the launch of the album.
Album Press Release
Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow is Jimmy ValenTime's sophomore album and it shows both his growth as an artist and person. The songs capture the dark side of living the fast life in New York City. Jimmy adds, "The album is about all the different women, who have affected me in the last few years." The album explores a more mature subject matter then his 2011 debut Life in Amazin Times. Better Luck Tomorrow is about living with the choices you make and learning some things will not change. The album also about finding the strength to be the best person you can be regardless of circumstance. Jimmy explains “This album is me with all my influences distilled in to my own life. There a big shift between the two albums, before you could hear me copy my influences like Common or Nas, now you hear me talk about the things that matter to me.”
Lead Single "Bad Decisions" details the way two people react to a causal hook up that leaves the both of them empty. Jimmy explains “I wrote the song for a real person, somebody I was friends with that always seemed to make the wrong choices. She was a sweet girl, but always on the verge of self-destruction. I tried to imagine what cause her to be the way she was.” Spring single "Dancin" (On a Pole) again captured a real moment in Jimmy Valentime's life , using his trademark humor to describe a strip club from a regular guys prospective. Jimmy says the song is “about me going to a strip club and a woman trying to put all her troubles on my shoulder. At a certain point I had to cut her off and be like ‘this isn’t what I came here for"
Jimmy Valentime 2011 single and tribute to Nas "Take It in Blood" gets a remastering and is finally available for sale. Jimmy was able to get the blessing of his idol Nas record label Columbia to clear the record in time for the album. Jimmy adds “It's an honor to include this cover on my album and I feel it lets people see where I came from and who I was inspired by.” “Movin On” originally from The Lost Angel’s debut “Together, We Stand Alone” gets remade as a solo song and chronicles the aftermath of Jimmy’s best friend losing his mother in a car accident.
“The Spectacular Now” is the new single for Better Luck Tomorrow with production by Willie Green who has produced for and worked with Billy Woods and Wiz Khalifa. “The Spectacular Now” is a lyrical exercise as jimmy mocks rappers who can’t rhyme and use gimmicks and social media to get popular. The track is being offer as a free download till May 25th to celebrate the launch of the album.
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Jimmy ValenTime
A really good Lawyer
This is article explaining my background, that I wrote for a website that deals with men's issues
I am an underground hip-hop artist and I was attending an event in Washington Heights where I was pretty excited about performing, There was a young Dominican guy, who kept looking at me as if I had two heads. This kid then asked me, “As a white man, how do you feel about Rachel Dolezal?”
I smiled and politely told him that I am actually half Dominican, just like him. For good measure, because he seemed to not be processing the information, I told him my real name, Jimmy Iglesias, and where my mother was from. He didn’t seem to want to take that answer and kept pushing me for a response. I told him that I didn’t have enough information about the woman to make a judgment call, but the only thing I honestly had an issue with was her taking a job that could have gone to a black woman. The way he treated me, and the question itself, took me back to being a teenager and feeling like I wasn’t Spanish enough for everyone else.
I am of mixed heritage, my father was from Spain and my mother was from the Dominican Republic. My mother is someone you can easily tell is Hispanic. Complexion-wise Latinos run a gambit of skin colors, so they’re always people that debate whether or not “Hispanic” is a race in the traditional sense. But for the sake of this conversation, my mother’s family is indigenous to that part of the world. I grew up having some of my mother facial features, but my father’s complexion. I can easily pass for Italian or Jewish. I still identify largely as being Latino.
While my father was around, I never knew his family. As I grew up, I was raised in a Dominican household and spent most of my time with my Dominican relatives. I grew up mainly speaking Dominican Spanish, eating Dominican food; tostones and manugo and the other 40,000 things you can make with Paltanos. (Platanos are my people’s shrimp.) My grandfather was a political revolutionary and attempted to over throw Trujillo, a corrupt dictator that terrorized the country.
In my personal life, with acquaintances, I don’t bring up my identity a lot. I don’t feel the need for others to validate me because I know ultimately who I am. I did always wonder what it would have been like if I had grown up looking more like my cousin or my uncles who weren’t mixed. I wonder if people in my neighborhood would have accepted me more and I would have gotten into fewer fights.
I’ve faced a lot of cruelty and misplaced anger in my direction growing up, and if I am candid, I still do, even now. I’ve always used humor and open ears and open heart to disarm people. I try to be sensitive to the nuances of others, because of how many people have ignored the nuances of me. I am six feet, two inches tall, and built like a football player, so I have used my size to protect myself, but I have worked hard not to become vengeful or cruel.
Being rejected by others taught me to be tenacious, to take risks, and to do the things I wanted to do. I accepted after the age of 14 I would never be easily embraced by others who grew up in my area due to my appearance.
I picked the name Jimmy ValenTime for a laundry list of reasons, but one was as a quick way to address the white thing and to move past it and explore the stuff I am interested in. In my music and performances I use people’s exceptions and subvert them. Lately I am going for a more playful vibe because I like to make music that makes people happy.
Jimmy ValenTime as a persona is very arrogant — it’s the part of me that is my cheerleader. But at events I love to give great performances, encourage those that stumble to keep going, and I try to pitch in for people that have a future in the music industry. I believe in hip hop and I believe in community. I fell in love with rap because I could see myself and parts of my life in people that didn’t always look like me or grew up in the same part of the country as I did.
So what I am saying is I wouldn’t change a thing.
- See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-like-them-really-im-not-dg/#sthash.hkAUr4w2.dpuf
I am an underground hip-hop artist and I was attending an event in Washington Heights where I was pretty excited about performing, There was a young Dominican guy, who kept looking at me as if I had two heads. This kid then asked me, “As a white man, how do you feel about Rachel Dolezal?”
I smiled and politely told him that I am actually half Dominican, just like him. For good measure, because he seemed to not be processing the information, I told him my real name, Jimmy Iglesias, and where my mother was from. He didn’t seem to want to take that answer and kept pushing me for a response. I told him that I didn’t have enough information about the woman to make a judgment call, but the only thing I honestly had an issue with was her taking a job that could have gone to a black woman. The way he treated me, and the question itself, took me back to being a teenager and feeling like I wasn’t Spanish enough for everyone else.
I am of mixed heritage, my father was from Spain and my mother was from the Dominican Republic. My mother is someone you can easily tell is Hispanic. Complexion-wise Latinos run a gambit of skin colors, so they’re always people that debate whether or not “Hispanic” is a race in the traditional sense. But for the sake of this conversation, my mother’s family is indigenous to that part of the world. I grew up having some of my mother facial features, but my father’s complexion. I can easily pass for Italian or Jewish. I still identify largely as being Latino.
While my father was around, I never knew his family. As I grew up, I was raised in a Dominican household and spent most of my time with my Dominican relatives. I grew up mainly speaking Dominican Spanish, eating Dominican food; tostones and manugo and the other 40,000 things you can make with Paltanos. (Platanos are my people’s shrimp.) My grandfather was a political revolutionary and attempted to over throw Trujillo, a corrupt dictator that terrorized the country.
In my personal life, with acquaintances, I don’t bring up my identity a lot. I don’t feel the need for others to validate me because I know ultimately who I am. I did always wonder what it would have been like if I had grown up looking more like my cousin or my uncles who weren’t mixed. I wonder if people in my neighborhood would have accepted me more and I would have gotten into fewer fights.
I’ve faced a lot of cruelty and misplaced anger in my direction growing up, and if I am candid, I still do, even now. I’ve always used humor and open ears and open heart to disarm people. I try to be sensitive to the nuances of others, because of how many people have ignored the nuances of me. I am six feet, two inches tall, and built like a football player, so I have used my size to protect myself, but I have worked hard not to become vengeful or cruel.
Being rejected by others taught me to be tenacious, to take risks, and to do the things I wanted to do. I accepted after the age of 14 I would never be easily embraced by others who grew up in my area due to my appearance.
I picked the name Jimmy ValenTime for a laundry list of reasons, but one was as a quick way to address the white thing and to move past it and explore the stuff I am interested in. In my music and performances I use people’s exceptions and subvert them. Lately I am going for a more playful vibe because I like to make music that makes people happy.
Jimmy ValenTime as a persona is very arrogant — it’s the part of me that is my cheerleader. But at events I love to give great performances, encourage those that stumble to keep going, and I try to pitch in for people that have a future in the music industry. I believe in hip hop and I believe in community. I fell in love with rap because I could see myself and parts of my life in people that didn’t always look like me or grew up in the same part of the country as I did.
So what I am saying is I wouldn’t change a thing.
- See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-like-them-really-im-not-dg/#sthash.hkAUr4w2.dpuf
Jimmy ValenTime
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This is my most recent show I did downtown, not the show from the article
The track in the video
The track in the video
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DJ Mart-Kos
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smooth shyt breh. lovin it
Liked the nas salute
Jimmy ValenTime
A really good Lawyer
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Thanks for your time coli family
TEKBEATZ :
The nas salute one of my fav things i ever made
it was in the same range of plays as the other stuff on my page, till like last year where it started getting like a 200 plays a week on my soundcloud for some reason.
Ill will publishing and Columbia gave the stamp to sell it on itunes
Also Statik selektah played it on shade 45 two weeks ago
DJ Dope needlz
you inspired the remix of dancin cause you said it remind of you a slick rick record, so i went for a early 90's sample for the remix
Thanks for your time coli family
TEKBEATZ :
The nas salute one of my fav things i ever made
it was in the same range of plays as the other stuff on my page, till like last year where it started getting like a 200 plays a week on my soundcloud for some reason.
Ill will publishing and Columbia gave the stamp to sell it on itunes
Also Statik selektah played it on shade 45 two weeks ago
DJ Dope needlz
you inspired the remix of dancin cause you said it remind of you a slick rick record, so i went for a early 90's sample for the remix
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Jimmy ValenTime
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you can support my album
on itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/better-luck-tomorrow/id993305314
on itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/better-luck-tomorrow/id993305314
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Thanks for your time coli family
TEKBEATZ :
The nas salute one of my fav things i ever made
it was in the same range of plays as the other stuff on my page, till like last year where it started getting like a 200 plays a week on my soundcloud for some reason.
Ill will publishing and Columbia gave the stamp to sell it on itunes
Also Statik selektah played it on shade 45 two weeks ago
DJ Dope needlz
you inspired the remix of dancin cause you said it remind of you a slick rick record, so i went for a early 90's sample for the remix
Breh you from the X? Dope shyt. What part?
Jimmy ValenTime
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I grew up in Soundview, parkchester, and throggsneck
(moved around a lot as a child)