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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#105: Mike Carson

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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! 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 guys, it's Friday. This is day number five of the run of podcasts of a waste of time,

0:04.9

but it's the real that we are calling February surprise. Surprise. Good things come to an end,

0:10.1

but do not worry. We will be back on Tuesday with another episode. But for today, we've got Mike

0:15.6

Carson on the podcast. So Mike Carson, maybe people don't know because this is the first substantial interview that he's ever done.

0:23.5

He is Big Sean's creative director and he's got a great story.

0:28.2

But Jeff, before we get into that story, I wanted to say a little something to the people.

0:34.1

Now, whether you've been rocking with us for nearly a decade, or if you're brand new to us,

0:39.4

thanks to this very here podcast, we appreciate you.

0:44.0

Listen, we're just two kids who grew up loving hip hop music and hip hop culture, and we are so

0:49.5

grateful that we've carved our own lane in this world, we've been around for man going on 10 years.

0:56.9

Now whether it's weekly sketch videos or absurdist interviews, podcasts, or even our music videos,

1:04.5

you guys have been there to support, to spread the word, and to push us forward.

1:09.0

In just a few weeks, the two of us are going to be

1:11.4

living out our dream and headlining SOBs here in New York City. It is called Your Girls'

1:16.9

Tour. And you know who's been on that stage. Everybody from Kanye to Drake to John Legend,

1:22.2

to Two Chains, to Schoolboy Q and Kendrick and Chance the Rapper and now these two idiots.

1:28.9

But having attended a million concerts at SOBs over the last 10 years,

1:33.0

we know what kind of opportunity this is,

1:35.1

and we've been working very hard over the last two months,

1:38.1

getting ready for an unforgettable night.

1:40.4

So here's the thing.

1:41.8

We don't just want to show up on February 23rd.

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