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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#136: Chuck Inglish

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal we welcome one half of The Cool Kids, the influential producer and rapper, Chuck Inglish to the Upper West Side! Chuck discusses growing up in Detroit the son of an auto worker and a nurse, hearing dice games outside his house that reminded him of rap album skits, seeing Cecil Fielder pull up in a car straight out of a Dr. Dre video, and playing drums in his friends' Sublime-like band. Chuck talks about how a skateboard accident got him into making beats, what he would have done if music wasn't his career, what the city of Chicago means to him, and the fear that existed when label heads started to inquire about The Cool Kids. We get into the sound Chuck defined, the influence it's had across music, and in his most revealing statements yet, why exactly Chuck and Mikey took their hiatus and why right now was the right time to link back up. All that, plus working with Bun B, Asher Roth, and Kid Cudi, hanging out at Alchemist's home studio and Mac Miller's home studio, predicting success for Fetty Wap, what he saw early in Drake, 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. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. We are back from London. Yes, we are. Chirio, Tudaloo. God save the Queen. Watch out for that bus. Those were all things that we experienced in London. Thanks to everybody who brought us out there. Yeah, Raj Kottetcha, Project Gersh, Hawkson Square Bar and Kitchen. Shout out to DJ Semtex. We had an amazing conversation that drops. Next Tuesday. Next Tuesday, the 19th. Yeah. Shouted to everybody who was in the building. We packed that place out. There's so many people we have to thank, and we'll save that for next week. Yeah. Just know, guys, we did everything you wanted us to do. We went to Trafalgar Square. You wanted us to go

0:38.6

to Trafalgar Square. We did it. We went to Big Ben. You wanted us to go to Big Ben. We did it. We went to Buckingham Palace. Yep. We threw rocks at the window and said, hey, queen, we're downstairs. We did a lot of things. And you guys know that there was one thing that we wanted to do, and we were told to do more than any other, we had to go to Nando's.

0:56.4

For anyone who doesn't know, Nando's is the chicken spot in London. You have to go to Aesap Furg, Raps about it on his song, Nandoes. All the rappers go there. Every corner we were on, every person we met, every radio interview we did out there, we were talking about Nando's.

1:11.9

Yeah. We are just trying to get that Nando's sponsorship deal, Nando's home of the Wopper.

1:18.2

So for us, for you guys, and really for the culture, we had to go. Had to go, and guess what, we did go. We went and, I mean, look, there weren't, but there

1:31.5

should have been fireworks. It was like walking into... Mando's. Oh, yeah, it was like walking into

1:38.6

Mecca or Nando's. Like, so we go down, we sit down to the table, and we're sitting there for like

1:43.7

15 minutes, half hour, 45 minutes. Like, by the way, expectations are growing this entire time. But nobody's visiting our table. Not one waitress. So we call over to one waitress who is speeding by and we're like, hey. You, Miss Nando's. We're here. Yeah. And she says, all right. So go to the counter and order at the counter. Oh, I go. Gotcha. Yeah. So, anyway. We order the food. Yeah. And we're like, what are you known for? And it's like all chicken. It's the sauce. We're getting ready for it it and they finally bring it over to table 25

2:17.7

and it was fine it was fine it's all right yeah it was all right it was whatever it's um

2:22.0

it was fine it was all right yeah i mean there's just nothing to be like oh my god like it was

2:27.3

yeah we didn't even have merch no you know that was the biggest problem oh that annoyed me

2:32.5

so much just sell me a Just sell me a shirt.

2:35.6

Sell me a shirt for the experience.

2:37.0

Anyway, thank you, London.

2:38.9

Thanks, London.

2:41.0

We're so eager to get back.

2:43.2

It was like dipping a toe into the pool.

2:44.8

We only experienced so much.

2:49.9

I would say it was more like dipping a Nando's wing into the hot sauce. That's right.

2:50.5

The Perry Perry sauce.

2:51.6

Oh my God.

2:52.9

Today on the podcast.

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