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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#127: Datwon Thomas

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the Editor in Chief of Vibe, and Brooklyn's own Datwon Thomas to the Upper West Side! Day discusses growing up on Air Force bases in Japan and New Mexico before finishing high school back in Brooklyn alongside Junior M.A.F.I.A., trying to pass off instrumentals to Puff Daddy in the club, and interning at Vibe Magazine during their first website's infancy. Day shares stories about how XXL announced their launch to their competition, getting thrown in the deep end at XXL when most of the staff left to go to over to Vibe, the legendary photo shoot for the Great Day in Harlem cover, finally working for Puff, returning to Harris Publications to start KING Magazine, being tapped to replace Elliott Wilson after he left XXL, taking a gig working with Russell Simmons, and all these years later, returning to an internet-focused Vibe. All that, plus the most amazing stories including bringing Kanye West to meet Elliott Wilson, meeting Miss Info, reactions to the infamous KING cover with Brandy, where he was when Big L passed away, writing the XXL cover story on Jay-Z, Ja Rule and DMX, going to the club with Barack Obama and Chris Tucker, and 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. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. Two weeks from tomorrow. Two

0:05.7

weeks from tomorrow, what's going down? We are blowing the con shell. We are assembling all of the

0:12.4

Avengers. Everybody from all corners of the globe, we are getting a bunch of people, all the power

0:18.8

players from Rockefeller Records, to come together for a once

0:22.9

in a lifetime opportunity at Highline Ballroom here in New York City. It's a celebration of

0:27.5

Rockefeller Records. So if you're like us, if you're somebody who grew up loving Memphis

0:35.1

Bleak Records and Beanie Siegel Records, If you did the Dame Dash bottlewobble,

0:40.7

diplomats, and state property, if you are a lurker or a commenter on Kanye Titha,

0:47.6

you wanted a Rockefeller chain. If you threw the diamond up, if you loved Jay-Z's music,

0:54.0

if you loved Christian's music, if you still loved Jay-Z's music, if you loved Christian's music, if you still

0:57.0

love Jay-Z's music, this is an event you want to be at. You know, it's funny, I saw today that

1:04.0

somebody commented on one of our Instagram posts and added Elliot Wilson and asked if he gave

1:10.1

permission.

1:14.4

And no, he did not give his permission.

1:16.1

But who are we?

1:24.6

We're like the underdogs who have taken over Highline and we are bringing not just like one guest, but we're bringing at this point seven or eight different guests. I mean, let's go over it. We have Lenny S. Right. We have Just Blaze. Right. Young guru. Freeway. Shaka Pilgrim, who's the president of Rock Nation. She was there from the beginning of Rockefeller Records. Emery Jones. Who was there really from the beginning?

1:45.2

Who am I missing?

1:46.6

Oh, hip-hop.

1:47.7

Hip-hop.

1:48.2

We just announced that Kiyombo Joshua, also known as hip-hop, who we talked about a bunch

1:54.4

of times in this podcast.

1:55.0

Yeah.

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