A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal - TopPodcast.com

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal — Music
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.

Copyright: © ItsTheReal

Latest Episodes:

#103: Kam McCullough of D'ussePalooza Feb 08, 2017

Show notes

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome D'ussePalooza (formerly HennyPalooza) founder Kameron McCullough to the Upper West Side! We talk growing up in Buffalo, NY, getting kicked out of elementary school, his time in Catholic school, high school football getting his D-1 scholarship offers, and seeing those pro football dreams evaporate in a split second. We discuss rebranding himself as a party promoter in college thanks to a friendship with Dela Yador, booking DJs like Mister Cee and Envy for college parties, relocating to New York City to work as a suit in finance, meeting music industry tastemakers and integrating himself into those circles, and taking a friends-only game night and turning it into a rollicking 20-city touring party. All that, plus breaking down Hennessy's non-involvement, competing events, the damage his friends have done to venues, jokes about all your favorite HP members, and much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#102: DJ Jubilee Feb 07, 2017

Show notes

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome South Florida's own, DJ Jubilee, to the Upper West Side! We talk about growing up in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, nd Orlando, and how the Florida heat, beats and streets helped shape her as a person and as a musician. We discuss going on Disney World rides under the influence, doing grunt work for radio stations, waitressing at Bennigan's, moving to NYC without knowing anyone, befriending Nick Catchdubs, meeting Rick Ross and Trina, accidentally insulting Cher, purposely insulting Wiz Khalifa and so much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#101: Wyclef Jean Feb 06, 2017

Show notes

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the legend Wyclef Jean to the Upper West Side. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talk about his collaborations with The Rock, Kenny Rogers, Destiny's Child, Jin tha MC, Mary J Blige, Canibus, Daryl Hall and more. We discussed stealing cars outside his father's church, playing upright bass in his high school jazz band, performing at Carnegie Hall, flying on The Concorde, when The Fugees really found success, the thinking behind The Carnival, why he's not thought of as one of the top New Jersey rappers, Trump's immigration policy, and much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#100! Jan 31, 2017

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we celebrate our 100th episode by answering listener-submitted questions about our history, profession, taste in music, guests, process, AKAs, trash vs, gawbage, whether cereal is a soup, and much more. All that, plus we dig up a fascinating clip from a never-aired episode with Young Dro!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#99: Cardi B Jan 24, 2017

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome The Bronx's own Cardi B to the Upper West Side! We talked her super-impressive new mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2, growing up in the Highbridge section of the The Bronx, her high school reputation, sneaking out to go to parties, how she hated math yet worked as a cashier, her brief time in college, how her boss at an Amish market in NYC told her she had a future in stripping and walked her across the street to New York Dolls to get her started, her mother's reaction when she found out how she was earning a living, learning Russian songs from other strippers, being honest on social media, getting recognized everywhere and being sincere with fans, how she feels she's been portrayed on Love and Hip-Hop, how seriously she takes her music, her thoughts on Trump's involvement with Putin, and much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#98: DJ Envy Jan 17, 2017

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome The Breakfast Club's own DJ Envy to the Upper West Side! We talk with Envy about growing up in Queens, riding bicycles with DJ Clue, sharing one turntable with another DJ, spinning at school dances, being the first person in his family to go to college, graduating with a marketing/management degree, the motorcycle accident that changed his life, stealing records for his mixtapes, getting calls from record executives who were not happy, getting calls from Rick Ross who didn't mind Envy hacking his email, how he invented the double and triple-booking, filling in for a pregnant Angie Martinez at Hot 97, doing mornings at Hot with Miss Jones, why he never joined a DJ crew, how he came to the decision to leave for Power 105, what really went down with Birdman, why Cam'ron wanted to fight, his choice for best mixtape of all time, how he feels driving down Canal Street in 2017, and so much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#97: DJ Bobby Trends Jan 10, 2017

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, it's only right that for our 97th episode, we welcome Hot 97's own DJ Bobby Trends to the Upper West Side! Trends has one of the best stories we've heard in all our time podcasting: we talked about growing up in the streets of Newark, NJ, fighting off home invaders, tagging rooftops with KAWS, trading a switchblade for his first turntable, getting recruited by Menudo, going to NYC clubs at 15 years old with his best friend AJ Calloway, passing out fliers in Washington Square Park, joining Funkmaster Flex's street team, getting fired from Flex's street team, Cipha Sounds re-introducing him to Flex, helping Jay Z and DMX and Jim Jones get into The Tunnel, attempting to DJ on the air at Hot 97 and getting shut down by Ebro, helping A&R French Montana and Dipset records, joining DJ Khaled's We the Best crew, fronting on Chamillionaire when he tried to hand him a mixtape, going back to Newark to teach at his old high school, and so much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#96: Ev Boogie Jan 03, 2017

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal we welcome UpNorthTrips founder and hip-hop curator Ev Boogie to the Upper West Side! Ev discusses growing up the son of a small town mayor, his mother tearing the tape out of his rap cassette, meeting Jonny Shipes in college, working the cash register at the famed Hamptons' hot spot The Star Room, an infamous run-in with Dame Dash, what really went down at Puff's White Party, how he secured a job with Sting's money manager, changing the mixtape game as one half of the Evil Empire, creating a digital presence for artists like Sean Kingston, fighting his personal demons, leaving New York City and reinventing himself as hip-hop's premier historian, working with Stretch Armstrong to put together their new book No Sleep, an amazing collection of NYC nightlife flyers from 1988-1999, and much, much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#95: Jersey Jinx Dec 27, 2016

Show notes

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the Garden State's own, Jersey Jinx, to the Upper West Side! We talk with the Complex News host about growing up listening to Blink 182, Joe Budden and anything that was on TRL, selling 50 Cent and Fabolous mixtapes in school, heading to Morehouse to study marketing and advertising, leaving a voicemail for music and advertising kingpin Steve Stoute to speak at a college seminar, and then having Stoute offer up a summer internship in New York City. We discussed how Jinx's parents convinced him to leave the internship and work for Nestle as a midwest sales rep, driving alone through Pennsylvania and Ohio selling chocolate chips, Hot Pockets and dog food, quitting that job and starting over at Decon Records and Mass Appeal magazine, getting courted by Complex, and establishing himself as one of the most trusted young voices in online news thanks to coverage like his 11 days in Ferguson, Missouri. All that, plus Birdman falling asleep in an interview, ridiculous barber stories, the greatest metaphor for Jinx's internships, and much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#94: Peter Rosenberg Dec 24, 2016

Show notes

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our old neighbor, friend and Hot97/ESPN radio personality Peter Rosenberg back to our part of the Upper West Side! We discuss Trump in great detail, how Peter celebrated Obama's first Inauguration, Washington's professional football team, buying a Christmas tree, the wrestler Goldberg and how in the world Peter missed out on the golden era of WWE, Kanye going to Trump Tower, Kanye's comments about Peter at Phife Dawg's memorial service, Trevor Noah's Tomi Lahren situation, forgetting his Secret Santa at work, family gossip, finally upgrading the Ho97 facilities, a very detailed discussion about hair, and so much more!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Related Podcasts