#170: Digital Music Marketing Executive Jamal Jimoh

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome digital music marketing executive Jamal Jimoh to the Upper West Side! Jamal discusses being raised by a single mother in Rockaway, getting into a gifted and talented program, getting asked to leave the gifted and talented program, playing advanced music at an early age, going to high school with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Immortal Technique, being asked to leave Hunter High School, getting his GED and going to college at 16 years old. Jamal talks about working as a librarian, interning for TheSource.com and Revlon over the same summer, doing facilities work at the Universal Music Group headquarters, roaming the halls of Def Jam, and ultimately being asked to leave for being too social and doing his job too quickly. We talk in detail about the harrowing circumstances that put Jamal under sedation in a hospital bed for a week, waking up with a tube down his throat, how thankful he is for his mother, who saved his life, and how this all changed his perspective on life. Jamal gets into his digital career at Island Def Jam, working with Fall Out Boy, Rihanna, Justin Bieber and The Killers, how he was named to Billboard's esteemed 30 Under 30 list, why he chose to join Nick Cannon's NCredible Entertainment, what being let go from that job after five years meant, and the long, difficult road to bouncing back and figuring out who exactly Jamal Jimoh was outside of a job title. All that, plus his days as a rapper, what his denim collection was like in high school and college, and again, what a great person his mother is! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. So, I feel like our
0:04.7	podcast is doing really great. I would agree. Our numbers, our conversations, our guests, all great.
0:12.0	All great. Everything has been above board. Yeah. And nothing can stop that momentum. Great. Fantastic.
0:16.9	Except that I have jury duty starting on Thursday. So what does that mean? It means that I might be gone for a while.
0:22.7	I'm serving our country.
0:24.1	My experience was when I went down there, they asked you what you do for a living, and I said,
0:30.0	I am a hip-hop sketch comedian, and they said, what is that?
0:33.5	And I had to describe that we do music, that we do TV, that we do writing, that we do interviews,
0:40.2	that we do podcasts, and that was not attractive to them. They were like, wait. That's how you get
0:45.3	off of a jury pool. Yeah, they were like, no. And so I said, okay, bye. And I came home. Well, I mean,
0:52.5	but what is it about a hip-hop sketch comedian that, like,
0:54.8	they're not into? Well, for the lawyers that day, it was the podcasting. They didn't want me to go
1:00.3	home and talk about things that may have come up in court like this in the intro of a podcast.
1:06.8	You should have told them, hey, guys, first of all, subscribe on iTunes. Yes. You can also find our podcast at soundcloud.com slash a waste of time. You can also go to Stitcher or any other streaming service. I really should have one by one. Yeah, well, it's a captive audience. Ma'am, what do you use? Yeah, what is your iOS? What is your preferred method of listening to podcasts?
1:27.8	But for you, for me, you're not totally against the idea of serving your fellow man.
1:34.1	Well, also, I think it's a stretch to say that we would talk about a case on here.
1:38.1	One, we are no snitches.
1:39.6	There you go.
1:40.4	And two, what I want to do is I want to serve and I want to, if somebody is going to be
1:45.8	on trial, I want to, you know, be a good juror. Of course. Just like if you were on trial, you would
1:51.0	hope that the jury was, was full of 12 and then whatever, however many alternates of good people
1:57.3	with good moral standing and good intentions. I don't need to go that far i just need
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