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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#114: DJ Kay Slay

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we are honored to welcome the legend himself, DJ Kay Slay, to the Upper West Side for an amazing conversation! We talk with the Hot 97 and Shade 45 DJ about how he found graffiti in the early 1980's and became "King of the 1 and 3 Trains" by age 16, how he was break dancing and DJing parties at age 11, and navigating the streets of Spanish Harlem through his middle school and high school years. We discuss how he went from teenage star of the seminal documentary Style Wars to dealing drugs and doing a stint in jail, how his mother stuck by his side, and how he made it back out sober and with a mission to be the best DJ there was. We spoke about helping Kanye pick out singles for his first album, getting yelled at by Jay Z on New Year's Eve, what it felt like to finalize Papoose's $1.5M deal at Jive, how he sonned the radio guys at Bad Boy, and later sonned ItsTheReal. All that, plus stories about Cam'ron, Ma$e, 50 Cent, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Justo Mixtape Awards, DJ Clue, Keith Haring, avoiding trains in the subway, getting mobbed by aspiring rappers outside Hot 97, his leather collection, 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 Jeff.

0:01.3

Hey Eric.

0:01.8

How are you?

0:02.1

I'm pretty good.

0:02.7

How are you?

0:03.1

Doing well, thank you.

0:03.8

It's Tuesday, and you know what that means.

0:05.5

I do.

0:06.0

Ladies free before midnight, two for one after. That's right. Fellas, bottle service available right now. Tables are going quickly. Also, it's a new episode of a waste of time with it's the real. Hard bottoms only. How was your week? My week was good.

0:18.7

It started off shitty because, you know, a few weeks ago we talked about this on the podcast.

0:23.6

We were down at South by Southwest. was your week? My week was good. It started off shitty because, you know, a few weeks ago,

0:21.7

we talked about this on the podcast. We were down at South by Southwest and we had to rush to get an

0:27.3

Airbnb. Yeah, yeah. We wanted to beat the snowstorm to get down to Austin and our hotel

0:33.3

could not accommodate us a day before. So you went online and got an Airbnb.

0:38.5

And every Airbnb always has one weird thing about it. This one had everything weird about it. And we talked about this in the other episode. Coups, used Q-tips on the floor, coins in the, in the sink. It felt like the house was going to fall over. Like, it just was not a good situation. Right. But I went on a few, like two weeks later, I guess, or a week later, and I said, hey, you know, didn't have a great experience. You said this to Airbnb, not to the person. No, I said to Airbnb. And so two weeks later, I got a phone call back and they asked for my story and I said I had a really bad experience with

1:11.5

Airbnb we didn't even stay the night I would like a refund of some sort yeah they said well

1:16.7

it's too late for us to refund you but what we can do is you have to go into basically a mediation

1:23.2

with the renter which which means what which means that I need to send any pictures I have of the property and I need to write up a thing saying, you know, I didn't stay the night.

1:35.7

And this is why my experience was.

1:37.7

And this is how much money I'd like back.

1:39.2

Okay.

1:39.8

So I do that and, you know, I write a...

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