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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#124: Vado

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Harlem native Vado to the Upper West Side! Vado talks growing up on 142nd and Lenox Avenue, going to school with Juelz Santana, seeing Mase, Jay Z, Fat Joe, the Ruff Ryders, Aaliyah, and more come through the block, battle rapping all around Harlem, going on a ski trips with Teyana Taylor, dropping out of school, forming the UN with Cam'Ron and hitting the Summer Jam main stage. We discussed the appeal of major record labels, his meetings with Atlantic, Universal, and eOne, wearing sunglasses in clubs, what's necessary for a walk-through, and why he signed with DJ Khaled, and what they have in store together. All that, plus Angela Yee, Harlem World, Dipskate, Mavado, Jae Millz, Busta Rhymes, TI, Young Dro, and of course, his new project Sinatra 2! 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. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. July 26.

0:04.9

We are doing a live podcast here in New York City at the Highline Ballroom going on at 8 o'clock, getting off whenever the fuck we want. Guys, go to It's theReal.com right now and get your tickets. If you're coming from out of town, book that flight. If you're coming from out of town, get on that bus.

0:20.2

If you're coming from out of town, rent that zip car right now before tickets sell out. It's the real.com. A waste of time live. It's not your average show. You guys want behind the scenes stories. This is going to be a behind the scenes Zuvie. Like, I don't even know how to explain it. Like, it's, it's just, we got...

0:38.1

There's a lot of people.

0:39.1

There's a lot of people.

0:39.8

It's not just one guest. No, we got six so far. We're working on a couple more. Oh, man. And, uh, I don't think that anybody's ever done anything like this before. Certainly not in this setting. No. A Waste of Time Live.

0:53.4

All the aspects that you guys love about this podcast, you're going to see it in front of

0:58.7

your eyes live on July 26th at the Highline Ballroom here in New York City.

1:03.7

Go to It's the Real.com and get your tickets right now.

1:07.4

Speaking of behind the scenes stories, we actually just saw the bad boy reunion documentary called Can't Stop Won't Stop.

1:13.9

Man, it's done by Apple Music, and this is a whole sort of...

1:19.9

Retrospective, yeah.

1:21.3

Of 20 years of bad boy.

1:23.4

It's not only like the stories that people know.

1:25.5

Like, obviously everybody knows that Puff went to Uptown, got fired.

1:28.9

Obviously everybody knows about Biggie's death and shine firing shots off at club speed.

1:35.6

It's also moments where Faith Evans has to squash 20 years of bad blood between her and Lil Kim.

1:42.6

It's also Harf Pierre getting on the phone with Craig Mack and saying,

1:46.5

hey, I know that you turned to God, you know, all those years ago,

1:49.7

but we want you on stage to be part of Puff Daddy and the family again.

1:53.4

Like, there's these moments where Puff is at his most ridiculous.

1:57.8

It's an amazing documentary, not just for the stories, also the way it's shot. This is some of the most beautiful concert footage that you or I have ever seen. Yeah. It's a game changer of a music documentary. Shout out to everybody over there, bad boy. Shout out to Lenny S. and Mac Wilds for hosting the screening. Please go check that out when it comes out on Apple Music soon. I don't know exactly when the date is, but soon.

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