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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#139: Rapsody

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Jamla/Roc Nation recording artist and North Carolina's own, Rapsody to the Upper West Side! Rapsody discusses growing up in a town of only 1600 people, being class president her senior year of high school, driving around back roads with a heavy foot, working as a cashier at a country grocery store, going to college for accounting, and the hope of walking onto the women's basketball team. We talk about her dreams of being a rapper, her collective Kooley High, meeting 9th Wonder and him telling her she was a star. Rap recalls her years as a studio rat, listening to classic albums as homework, recording hundreds of songs, improving her craft, being patient, exhibiting diligence and humility, and working alongside the perfect partner in 9th Wonder. We get into her first show at SOB's in NYC, how she progressed with each project, her appreciation of J. Cole's journey, what it meant to be on Kendrick's second album, the first email she received from Roc Nation, and how she feels with the release of her new album Laila's Wisdom. All that, plus stories about Erykah Badu, Busta Rhymes, Young Guru, the hilarious circumstances of how her parents found out she was a rapper, 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. Welcome back to having a real voice. Thank you very much. Thank you to everybody who kept me in their thoughts and prayers. Miracles do happen, and sometimes you just make it out the other side stronger than ever. So last week, you had no voice. None. You were under the weather and stuck in the apartment for honestly like about seven days.

0:21.0

Yeah, I had my haircut and I couldn't even talk to the guy. I said to him like, I can't talk

0:27.0

if we could just not. And he was like, okay. That was a really good impression of you not having a

0:32.5

voice. Now I'm wondering maybe. If I was faking it the entire time? The entire time. So it was a

0:37.2

false flag operation. Jeff didn't So it was a false flag.

0:38.3

Jeff...

0:39.3

Jeff didn't make it to a whole bunch of events that I went to last week.

0:43.5

I went to the A-Bugie with a hoodie listening party.

0:47.1

I went to go see NBA Young Boy in concert.

0:50.2

I went...

0:50.6

There was an advertising week event that our friend NER O'sdemer, put on, and it was incredible because Pusha T put on a dope performance, obviously.

1:01.4

And you know what's crazy is that, you know, advertising week brings out all of the, all the suits, all the older white suits who don't normally go to rap events.

1:11.7

This is their like one time to take the tie off and really, you know, sort of let loose.

1:16.2

Yeah, it's like a weeknight warrior.

1:17.6

Yeah.

1:18.0

And, you know, I think looking in that crowd during push's set, I think their definition of let loose is to actually yell the N-word along with don't like,

1:28.9

for example. And that, to me, in 2017, is still nuts. Yeah, I would agree. And this never

1:36.2

happens to me, but I went to a wedding this weekend. I have my voice back. I went to a wedding.

1:40.9

And this guy who I barely know, like. Like, barely, barely, barely know.

1:45.9

Comes up to me and he's like, oh, you work and rap. Does Jay Z know you? I go, well, you know, I've met him. But like, if he ever saw me in the street, he would never know who I, he was. And so he goes, yeah, but would you ever walk up to him and say, yo, what up my? but then he said the word and I was like,

2:00.2

what are you,

2:00.9

like,

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