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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#137: DJ Semtex LIVE in London

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we join the legendary DJ Semtex LIVE in London, England in front of a sold-out crowd at the Hoxton Sq. Bar & Kitchen. For the first time, Semtex - world-renowned DJ, radio personality, and author - speaks in depth on his self-made journey from working-class Manchester to mastering his craft in London and traveling the globe. Semtex discusses how he got into hip-hop, how he became the most in-demand DJ in London, and the doors that his obsession with vinyl records opened up around the world. We talked about how he went from running street teams for Sony Music to establishing Def Jam UK to championing artists like Kanye, Lauryn Hill, DJ Khaled and Dizzee Rascal early, and what that meant to both his career and theirs. All that, plus meeting Jay-Z and Dame Dash at Roc-A-Fella's first office, the backstory to his huge Drake interviews, working with Destiny's Child, attending and videotaping a tiny Kanye after-party/cipher, becoming a trusted interviewer, his thoughts on radio, DJs, and downloading sites, the super-real reason he got rid of his entire vinyl collection, 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. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well thank you. Today, finally, our live

0:06.0

podcast from London interviewing the legendary DJ Semtex. Yes, by the legendary you and me,

0:14.1

three legends on stage, just hanging out. You know, I didn't know if that stage would be big

0:17.5

enough for these three legends. And guess what? Barely. We're big legends. The whole trip, though, was fantastic. Yes, but the actual getting over there and coming back... We weren't sure we were going to even get on the flights. It was a little dicey because I couldn't check in. You couldn't? Couldn't check in on my phone. Couldn't check into my computer. I had to eventually call somebody. Thank God there was one phone number there. Yeah, thank God for a phone number. So I end up calling this guy who then refers me to somebody else, who then refers me to somebody else. But every single person would all say, kindly try again, I believe in you. And it's always like super fast. And it was kindly try again.

1:14.5

I believe in you. And I was just like... So they're like taught. That's how the response goes. Like you're like, I can't log in on my phone to try to get on this flight without standing on a line at the airport. Please, sir, kindly try again. I believe in you. And I'm like, it's nice that you believe in me. Weren't they like kindly try using Mozilla Firefox? Kind of

1:15.0

Kind of. I believe in you. And I'm like, it's nice that you believe in me. Weren't they like kindly try using Mozilla Firefox.

1:14.9

Kindly. Yeah, I believe in you. And it's like, I am doing this. You believe in me because I'm doing.

1:20.2

On the way back, too, it was 2 o'clock in the morning. Yeah. You were trying to check in again on your phone, on your computer, on the hotel computer, and you finally had to call them once more. And they said that you were good. I was fine. But that I had to kindly try again. In an hour. And I'm like, I'm not going to stay up until 3 a.m. So I can check in on your flight. I'll try again in the morning. Kindly, yeah. And so I do it in the

1:45.7

morning. You kindly had a good night's sleep. Well, for like four hours. We'll come. Kindly woke up

1:51.8

and rang up these idiots again to be like, hey, I tried it again. Couldn't do it. You do it on your

1:58.4

end. And he said, kindly do it at the airport. I believe in you. There's some guy who works at the airport who can print out a ticket. I believe in you. Well, guys, we have so many thank yous to get to. So kindly hang in here with us. First and foremost, we want to thank Raj Cotetcha, the host and organizer of our whole trip. He looked out

2:19.7

for us. He put on this show. Thank you, Raj. Thank you to the whole team. That's Project

2:24.4

Gersh and Viren and Sujin and Arjun and Raffal and Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Yes, the Creative

2:32.9

Content Agency. One Globe Studio who did the video

2:36.2

that is coming real soon. So make sure you subscribe to YouTube.com slash it's the real to be the first

2:42.2

one to see that video the moment it goes up. Obviously, we want to thank DJ Semtex.

2:48.0

We want to thank Amy Bennett. Shout to Amy. Always looked out for us. Nikita, everyone else at the BBC and BBC One Extra. Sarah Harrison, who Semtex introduced us to. She was awesome. Shout to the whole radar radio team out there in London. Ill Will. Taryn Bassie over at Metro. Yo, shout out to TMAX, who hit us up online and was like, yo, I've been with you guys since the Drake and Jennifer Aniston days.

3:13.4

And I really want to come out to support you guys in Semtex.

3:16.6

And he did shout out to T-Mex.

3:18.2

I want to shout out Lee Kahn, who beforehand, he did street team stuff with DJ Semtex.

3:24.5

Yeah, so for him to show up was amazing for us and for Semtex.

3:28.4

He was telling me all about how Job Rule had his chain repurposed.

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