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Bobby Valentino: Album
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Bobby Valentino's single "Slow Down" was one of the biggest R&B singles of 2005. He was ... featured on the Ludacris single "Pimpin' All Over The World." Bobby's sophomore album is due to drop next summer. His song "Table Dance" is featured on the upcoming album Ludacris Presents Disturbing Tha Peace.
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Through trials and tribulations, Bobby Valentino has navigated through rough waters of the music industry. At age 13, he was one of the artists in Organized Noize's teen vocal group Mista, whose debut single, "Blackberry Molasses," remains a classic to this day. "Being in the group was definitely a learning experience as it shows how you can be here one day and gone tomorrow," he reflects. Once the group's effort to launch a second album stalled, Bobby utilized the time to enroll in Clark Atlanta University, where, although he was offered a music scholarship, opted to study Mass Communications where he learned film editing, speech, and other areas which could enhance his skills in the music industry. Following his graduation in May 2004, he found an internship at a TV station and spent some of his free time volunteering for his dad's Atlanta Gardening Program where participants learn to grow and care for fruits and vegetables.
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Bobby Valentino quickly jumps to the album's first single, "Slow Down," which is by far the strongest track on the disc. The tribal beats and melodic grooves are a real head turner and currently fill the radio airwaves. It's a jam that all the kids will be grinding to at basement parties.
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Bobby Valentino attempted to jumpstart his career by auditioning for the first season of the hit reality show American Idol, but was rejected by judges, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. However, armed with three albums of demos, he continued to pursue his music career dream. The demos reached Poon Daddy, who then forwarded them onto Ludacris and Shaka Zulu. "The rest is history," as Bobby says. He signed with Island Def Jam music imprint and is a member of Ludacris' Disturbing Tha Peace label.
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Bobby Valentino (born Bobby Wilson) is an American R&B singer. He is known as Bobby V or Bobby V-Tino in the United Kingdom due to a lawsuit, there being a British musician who had been recording continuously under the same name since 1975. His first single, 2005's “Slow Down”, from his self-titled debut album became a top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Valentino's lame self-penned lyrics don't help. The album's first single "Slow Down" has already reached the pop charts and its video has saturated the Black Entertainment Television (BET) programming, but this says more about the vacuity of what's out there then the song's merit. Consider the chorus recited to a generic chucka chucka handclap beat: "Slow down I just wanna get to know you / But don't turn around / Cuz that pretty round thing looks good to me / Slow down never seen anything so lovely / Now turn around / And bless me with your beauty, cutie / It's hard to know where to begin." Sure, conceptually the song does not differ much from classic pop hits like Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman", but the devil lies in the details. Valentino's description of the girl's butt and the rhyming of "beauty" and "cutie" go beyond trite into the realm of the banal. And when he continues with "A butterfly tattoo / Right above your naval / Your belly button's pierced too just like I like it girl," the insipid becomes even more insufferable.
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