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⏱️🎩 Nef the Pharaoh – “Big Tymin” (but the time is actually the 1930’s) | Blues Version

Recorded live at The Golden Rails Juke Joint, Vallejo – September 1933.

The band is already warming up when Nef the Pharaoh steps inside the juke joint—upright bass thumping, piano rolling, and a trumpet cutting through the smoky air like it owns the place. Times are rough in 1933, but Nef walks in like he’s immune to the Depression: shoes polished, suspenders crisp, fedora tilted with exact precision. A few regulars glance up from their whiskey. Someone mutters, “There he go again… big tymin’.”

Nef takes the mic with that effortless grin and sings, “They say time is money… well, I’m rich in both tonight. Big tymin’ in the ’30s, still shinin’ in low light.” The room reacts instantly—some laugh, some cheer, all of them feeling the spark he brings. Even in a decade where most folks don’t have two coins to rub together, Nef carries himself like the world’s still wide open.

He keeps going, voice sliding across the blues groove: “Got my crew in the corner, got the blues on the stage. And when time get tough, we just turn another page.” The trumpet flares, the dancers kick up dust, and suddenly the whole joint feels lighter—like everybody borrowed a little piece of Nef’s confidence just for the night.

The Vallejo Morning Tribune later wrote, “A rare sight in 1933: a man who makes the hard times look optional.” And it’s true. Nef closes the performance with a wink and a line that makes the whole room smile: “Ain’t got a watch on me… but baby, you know the vibe. Whenever I walk in the room—big tymin’ arrives.”

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