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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#120: Killer Mike

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, one half of Run the Jewels, Killer Mike, welcomes Eric and Jeff into his Atlanta, Georgia home! In a conversation surrounding ItsTheReal's new album, Teddy Bear Fresh, which drops on May 26th, Mike talks with the brothers Rosenthal about their family, growing up on Jay Z and Biggie, diving into a career of hip-hop sketch comedy, and the persistence, focus, authenticity and sacrifices that earned them ten years in the game. Mike and ItsTheReal trade stories about entourages, co-signs, comedy, haters, drugs, label independence, Kanye West and much more! Teddy Bear Fresh, featuring appearances by Curren$y, Smoke DZA, Bun B, Michael Christmas, Tunji Ige, Jazz Cartier, Angie Martinez, Just Blaze, Combat Jack, Sway Calloway, and Scott Rogowsky will be available on all streaming services starting May 26th, and is up for iTunes pre-sale right now! 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.

0:00.9

Hey Eric.

0:01.5

How are you?

0:01.8

I'm pretty good.

0:02.5

How are you?

0:03.0

Doing well, thank you. Happy two-year anniversary of this podcast. I can't believe it's been two years. It has been exactly two years this Saturday when we put out our first episode with Alchemist. Out in L.A. We taped it in L.A. And, you know, we originally sold this podcast, as everyone knows, as a dinner party-style conversation.

0:22.2

And the network at the time put out a press release that said, dinner party.

0:26.1

And subsequently, we cooked for, I don't know, like a dozen or so episodes thereafter.

0:32.1

Which, you know, like, it's nice to have people over to your home.

0:36.4

And it's nice to talk to them.

0:38.1

It's nice to cook for them, but maybe not to do all those things at the same time.

0:42.1

And especially when, like, you know, the stove is right behind the guest and our apartment is really hot.

0:47.7

We kept going, and we're 120 episodes in.

0:52.0

And I think the thing that I'm most proud of throughout this whole process

0:56.0

is that we found a niche.

0:58.6

And now, look, we've had Charlie Wilson on, we've had Jada Kiss on, we've had Angie Martinez on,

1:04.7

Lil Uzi Vert, fine, big guests who were there to promote something.

1:08.2

But what we figured out, and I think, correct me if I'm wrong, where we really do very well

1:14.2

is when we have guests that are insiders that are behind the scenes people, that we can talk

1:19.5

about industry stuff and teach our audience about things that go on.

1:24.4

Yeah, but it's not only our audience.

1:25.4

Like, you and I both genuinely love,

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