#147: Ted Smooth

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 137 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome The Remix King himself, East Harlem's own DJ Ted Smooth, to the Upper West Side! Ted talks earning his stripes playing whiffleball and basketball on the streets, playing his way into the Little League World Series, growing up in a single mother home, and learning to spin records at an early age thanks to his older brother being the legendary mixtape DJ Rei Double R. Ted discusses coming up in NYC as a performative DJ, learning reggae records early, building up an audience that would follow him from club to club, battling Kool DJ Red Alert, fronting on Kid Capri when he was trying to enter the DJ booth, and how he amazingly beat out Funkmaster Flex for the most desired piece of vinyl in Manhattan. We get into Lumidee's certified banger Uh Oh, how Ted forced Columbia Records' hand when he remixed Beyonce's Love on Top, knowing Jay-Z and Damon Dash and Big Pun and Fat Joe from the club days, working with Fabulous and Jadakiss for the Freddy vs. Jason project, and so much more, and for the first time ever, Ted tells the story behind the infamous One Blood loop! 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? I am hanging in there. Thank you. Jeff, it's almost Thanksgiving, and we wanted to dedicate this intro to mention all the things that we are thankful for. And if it's cool with you, can we go back and forth like Jada Kiss and Stiles? Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to be Jada Kiss. So you're going to go to sleep and not wake up until the episode is over? Yeah, I'm going to start singing new edition songs in the middle. Oh, my God.
0:23.8	For everyone who listened... So you're going to go to sleep and not wake up until the episode is over? Yeah, I'm going to start singing new edition songs in the middle.
0:23.2	Oh, my God.
0:23.8	For everyone who listened to last week's episode, I'm thankful for you.
0:27.5	Yeah.
0:28.2	I am thankful, Jeff, for everything that you bring to the table for this podcast, all the booking, all the research, all the jokes, and all your energy. Thank you very much.
0:39.0	Well, thank you for that.
0:40.7	I am thankful for you editing the podcast so that I don't have to.
0:45.5	You have put in more hours listening to every um, every vocal tick, every time that Cardo Got Wings was doing a new voice and you had to adjust the sound
0:57.1	on that.
0:58.0	All of that, I am thankful for that.
1:00.1	All right.
1:00.4	I am very thankful for all of you out there who have been listening to our podcast, whether
1:04.9	it's been two and a half years, whether it's been just two episodes.
1:09.3	And I am thankful for all of you who have hit us up saying, hey, when is Cardi B going to be on the podcast? Hey, when is Meno going to be on the podcast? Hey, when is Mike Posner going to be on the podcast? And it's like all these things have already happened. So I'm thankful for us already making those things happen. I'm thankful for man's not hot. Michael Dapper.
1:28.7	Yeah. I'm thankful for him doing the interview as Michael Dapper and not as man's not hot guy for an hour and a half.
1:36.6	I am thankful that no one's entourage has left here with anything that was not theirs in the first place.
1:43.4	Actually, we don't know if the Migos anybody...
1:45.4	All right, well, let's just assume and move forward.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:48.4	I am thankful for Joe Budden and his entire entourage,
1:52.0	each member of whom has come on this podcast and kept our podcast afloat.
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