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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

The most fun interviews in hip-hop: comedian brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal, better known as ItsTheReal, engage in authentic and hilarious conversation with rappers, tastemakers, and industry veterans, all from their Upper West Side apartment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#113: Tuxedo (Jake One + Mayer Hawthorne) Apr 04, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome singer Mayer Hawthorne and producer Jake One collectively known as the funk outfit Tuxedo, to the Upper West Side! We talk Jake's roots in Seattle, his work with G-Unit and Rick Ross and Future, beat tapes being jacked, the importance of the late J. Moore, growing up playing basketball with Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament, bandwagon Seahawks fans, refusing to acknowledge Oklahoma City's existence, recording and touring with Freeway, and so much more. We also talk Mayer's growing up in Ann Arbor, going to the University of Michigan, moving to NYC after high school, the unique stage name given to him in an early rap group, getting to be real-life friends with Snoop Dogg, being invited to play at Live at Daryl's House and choosing what Hall & Oates songs to play, how John Mayer and Kanye reached out via Twitter's early days, being huge in Japan, and of course, how Tuxedo came to be. Oh, and most importantly, HOW IN THE WORLD PITBULL CAME INTO THEIR LIVES!!!

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#112: DJ Kast One Mar 28, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome The Bronx's own DJ Kast One to the Upper West Side! A Hot 97 staple for the last decade, Kast talks about fighting his way through the Bronx, doing graffiti in subways and on rooftops, joyriding cars at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, cleaning airplanes at LaGuardia Airport, and his mother signing him up for college without his knowledge. We discussed how DJing went from a high school hobby to a career thanks to his college roommate L Boogs, what circumstances led to Kast becoming DJ Enuff's opener, getting kicked out of college, getting kicked out of a recording session by Kanye West, and getting kicked out the booth by famed Hot 97 Program Director Tracy Cloherty. All that, plus Japan, Nardwuar, asking Ebro for vacation, being a Heavy Hitter, and much more!

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#111: Danny Brown & 24Hrs (Live at SXSW) Mar 21, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we took the show down to Austin, Texas for a wide-ranging talk with rapper/singer/DJ/producer 24hrs and rapper/comedian Danny Brown in front of a live audience from the official SXSW podcast stage! We discussed cats, pedicabs, FaceTime, Jermaine Dupri, AirBNB, living with Tony Yayo, random run-ins from years ago & so much more!

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#110: Casanova Mar 14, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Flatbush, Brooklyn's own Casanova to the Upper West Side! We talk growing up in a pre-Barclays Center Brooklyn, robbing people for their Air Jordans, giving up on school football when no one from Casanova's family would attend his games, and going in and out of jail as early as 14. We discuss what a judge said and what his mother did to make Casanova finally reconsider his ways, what music got him through a seven year bid, and how all these years later, he came to find out that his friend from inside jail went on to become A$AP Rocky. We talk gambling, investing, joining the construction union, raising his son and daughter, and the circumstances that led him to make his smash song Don't Run, which caught the attention of Taxstone, Chris Brown, Memphis Bleek, Meek Mill, Fabolous, Kevin Hart and more!

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#109: KYLE Mar 07, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Ventura, California's own, Kyle, to the Upper West Side! In this hilarious conversation, we talk about reinventing yourself after switching to a new high school, putting sports to the side for drama club and improv classes, recording at run-down studios after school in Los Angeles, paying to perform at a shoe store during regular business hours, changing his rap name, coming up with the best senior yearbook quote, working as a meter reader, living on Skid Row, moving in and working with DJ Carnage, meeting Kehlani, getting horrible haircuts, his brother's unique name, and so much more!

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#108: Charlie Wilson Feb 28, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, it's our honor and pleasure to welcome the legendary singer Charlie Wilson to the Upper West Side! Uncle Charlie took time from his nationwide tour to sit down with us and talk about Kanye (who exactly suggested Rihanna be on All of the Lights, knowing Ye's Tulsa family growing up, where his version of Flashing Lights is, Rosewood), Snoop Dogg (how Snoop found him homeless at a gas station, Tupac knocking down his door to work together), Pharrell (how Charlie built up his confidence, how shy he was at the beginning, singing reference tracks), and R. Kelly (his writing process for Charlie, Last Name Wilson, playing basketball). Plus living in Los Angeles in the era of sex, drugs and rock & roll, paying tribute to the Rolling Stones in front of them and 30k people, co-writing Computer Love with Zapp, throwing TVs out of windows, being cheated out of music money, being homeless and on drugs, and bouncing back with the help of his wife to create a second half like none other!

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#107: Alex Tumay Feb 21, 2017

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the popular music engineer Alex Tumay, who's worked with Young Thug, Travis Scott, Kanye West, Metro Boomin, Southside, TM88 and many more, to the Upper West Side! We talked how his parents disguised a cross-country relocation from him, playing in garage bands and surfing as a teen in Florida, going to college with the intention of designing videogame soundscapes, moving to Atlanta and ending up as a studio intern with a side hustle in poker. We discussed how he put himself on through hard work and filling a studio room full of the hottest producers in the business, how he became the preferred engineer of Young Thug, what Birdman is like on a personal level, his experiences on the road with Travis Scott, which producer Facetimes him the most, who had the best mansion to visit, and so much more!

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#106: Jazz Cartier Feb 14, 2017

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Toronto's own young gun Jazz Cartier to the Upper West Side! We talk growing up in a military family, moving from Canada to Idaho to Georgia to Kuwait to Connecticut, always on the move. We discuss his mom putting him onto classic records but not letting him wear bandanas like Juelz, getting kicked out of boarding school, playing high school tennis, and the best story we've ever heard about a first-time freestyle! Jazz talks about how Toronto's downtown evolved from the OVO era through the XO era and into the years where Jazz and his roommates ran the craziest party in town. All that, plus making a fan out of Lil Wayne, getting his records played on Drake's radio show, working on meeting Rick Ross, hoping to collaborate with E-40 and Gunplay through his new show with Vice, and so much more!

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#105: Mike Carson Feb 10, 2017

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Big Sean's creative director, Mike Carson to the Upper West Side for his first real interview! We talk with Mike about his upbringing in Chicago, his early start with shooting and editing videos, doing lighting direction for high school plays, linking up with Mike Waxx at Columbia College to bring video content to illroots.com, dropping out of school after one year to document the Watch the Throne recording process in Australia, and then moving to NYC and living with Virgil Abloh and Ibn Jasper. We discussed shooting the Ass music video for Big Sean and Nicki Minaj, re-purposing videos for Big Sean's tour, getting over New York City and moving to LA and sleeping on Travis Scott's couch, launching the infamous Illmore house parties at SXSW, joining Sean's team full time, working with Drake, working with Bryson Tiller, why he believes in merch pop-ups, his lighting philosophies, why he hates flying, the one superstar left on his checklist to work with, and so much more!

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#104: Nigel Talley Feb 09, 2017

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome acclaimed A&R Nigel Talley to the Upper West Side! We talk about Nigel's roots in the Bronx, going to a high school straight outta "Lean on Me," finding a purpose in life after meeting Rosie Perez, finding his way into the music industry, and dropping out of college at the request of Puff Daddy, so that he could join the No Way Out tour. We discuss working with Ma$e, Shyne, Cassie, Da Band, Waka Flocka Flame, Jill Scott, Curren$y, Justine Skye and more, as well as influencing Puff's White Parties, infamous rap battles on 125th Street, Q-Tip stopping by the crib, how he earned 50 Cent's respect, what DJ Khaled's like on the phone, and much, much more!

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