So there were a lot of times when he used to interview me on the radio. “When I was in the group Mista, Luda was on the radio. With three demos post grad, he got signed as a solo artist by longtime connection Ludacris on his Def Jam imprint, Disturbing tha Peace Records. “More than anything from college, I learned how to multitask, how to be responsible and put the most important things first, and everything else, you know it’ll come later,” Bobby Valentino says.Īfter graduation, Valentino hit the ground running. Although it was hard for Valentino to stay focused at Clark Atlanta University with a 20 to one female to male ratio, Valentino graduated with a mass communications degree in radio and television. On top of the normal grueling grind of school, he didn’t give up on his musical career and would pull long days where he’d be in the studio at night and wake up early for class the next morning, he says. Through his college years, Valentino lived a double life.

“Being on top one day and on the bottom the next, they realized how unstable the music industry really was,” he says. The difficult times for the industry didn’t defer Valentino and he wanted to pursue music after high school, but his parents insisted he get the grades and graduate college. Returning to high school meant that Valentino went from “being a superstar to being normal again.” Kids would sing lyrics from “Blackberry Molasses” when he walked down the halls of school, he says. That album was very big,” Valentino says. But the success seemed to subside after that single. The group had a hit single called “Blackberry Molasses” (featured in the T.I.

He’s that smooth dude who puts out those catchy hip-hop infused love songs, right? Well yeah, but the dude’s done more than just set the mood for baby makin’ or giving a shout out to your “big baby boi boo” on a Sunday night slow jam radio show.Īctually, this Atlanta-based singer started out with a group named Mista when he was a teenager in the late ’90s. Valentino has certain name recognition throughout the radio and R&B world. R&B artist Bobby Valentino has set out to make a name for himself as a musical mogul and has no intention to “Slow Down.” Valentino holla’ed at Submerge while touring through the American “backwoods” of South Carolina where there’s nothing to see but “cows and a lot of grass.” Emerging from Under the Umbrella of Moguls to Fulfill His Own Blu Kolla Dreams

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