#119: Dallas Martin

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we stop by Atlantic Records to sit down with their SVP of A&R Dallas Martin! We discussed growing up humble in Flint, Michigan, turning down the safe in-state option and going to Clark Atlanta University, promoting parties around the city and meeting Don Cannon, DJ Drama, and DJ Sense, getting an internship with the man who signed Jeezy and Rick Ross to Def Jam, Shakir Stewart, and Shakir's shocking death. Dallas talks about his recovery, his fresh start with Juelz Santana, delivering records like "Back to the Crib," getting fired from Def Jam, losing out on jobs, sinking into depression, and getting saved when an opportunity to help rebuild Warner Bros. Records came his way. We dive deep into the recording processes of Wale, Meek Mill, Omarion, and Rick Ross, which artist passed on the Mike Will instrumental that went on to become "No Lie," why Lotus Flower Bomb almost didn't make radio, how Meek's Dreams & Nightmares intro came together, where he was when he got wind of Meek's Drake texts, the major artists he almost signed, what the Atlantic Records merger meant, what Khaled is like in meetings, Ross' Atlanta mansion, and much, much, 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.
0:00.5	Hey, Eric.
0:01.1	How are you?
0:01.4	I'm pretty good.
0:02.0	How are you?
0:02.5	Doing well, thank you.
0:03.3	We have an album coming out on May 26th.
0:05.4	Yeah, Teddy Bear Fresh.
0:06.4	Teddy Bear Fresh. It's us and currency and Smoke Dizza and Bun B and Sway and Angie and Just Blaze and Jazz Cartier and Michael Christmas and Tuneji Ege and we're on there. Did I, yeah, I miss anybody? I don't think so.
0:19.6	Pre-sale is up right now on iTunes.
0:21.3	Guys, we made this album for you.
0:23.0	For our listeners of the podcast, everybody who... More on there. Did I, yeah, did I miss anybody? I don't think so. Pre-sale is up right now on iTunes.
0:21.3	Guys, we made this album for you. For our listeners of the podcast, everybody who tunes in every week, you're really going to be surprised, you're really going to be satisfied. It's a dope project, and we started doing our press run this past week. We went to Hot 97 to see Nessa. and Ness is a girl who we've met twice, always had, like, pleasant conversations, never, like, anything deep. You know, those type of conversations that you have with people at, like, clubs or whatever. Yeah, you're saying hi and saying, like, how are you? And knowing that, like, I've seen you in a friend's Instagram and you've seen me and that same friend's Instagram,
0:54.9	but never at the same time.
0:55.8	Right.
0:56.8	Like she doesn't know our last names.
0:57.5	We don't know her last name.
0:58.6	Like she probably can't tell us apart, you know, like that sort of relationship.
1:02.2	So we end up going to this interview and it's a good conversation.
1:07.0	45 minute conversation, really good questions.
1:10.0	I don't think the video is out yet, but it should be soon on hot 97.com.
1:14.8	So at the end of the interview, Nessa runs over to the other studio, and her assistant says to us, have you met Colin?
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