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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#154: Fafu

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2017

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, Day 5 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome music producer, video director, DJ, drum programmer and all around content creator Fafu to the Upper West Side! Fafu discusses growing up in York, Pennsylvania, moving to Minnesota with dreams of finding his place in the live music scene, working odd jobs and taking recording classes, and hanging out at a biker bar on the outskirts of town where the best musicians in the world would congregate. We talk about working as a drum programmer and guitar tech for Prince at Paisley Park, moving to NYC to work with the Blue Man Group, moving to Los Angeles with Randy Jackson offered to create a label, band and production partnership with Fafu, heading to Albany, NY to join Puff Daddy and the Family on the No Way Out Tour, going to the Bahamas to work alongside The Hitmen on various Bad Boy projects, going to Atlanta to finish Puff's Forever album and assist with Mase's Double Up, and going to court to support Puff during the Club New York trial. Fafu shares stories about joining the group Blestenation, shopping a deal around, getting placement in a major motion picture, and what role Paul Rosenberg, Noah Callahan-Bever, Steven Victor and Mr. Morgan played in their career. All that plus working with Harry Fraud, shooting viral videos for Akon and French Montana, helping launch Made in America, how exactly Puff's people got weed into the Bahamas and much, much more! PS: Be sure to check out JeezyShop.com for all things Jeezy: his tour, his merch and his new album, Pressure, available now! 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

Welcome to Day 5 of the 12 Days of Podcasts. This series of 12 perfect episodes is brought to you by the good people at Def Jam.

0:09.1

It's December and nothing is colder than GZ's new album Pressure. We once were asked by MTV to do a funny interview with Gizi and we asked him how to build a snowman.

0:19.0

He said, from the ground up. And we thought, huh, that's not a very funny answer.

0:25.2

Until much later, when we were both like, oh, that's actually a very smart answer, maybe

0:30.2

GZ does have a very good sense of humor.

0:32.7

Anyway, I really like GZ's album, and I hope you do too.

0:35.9

Go to GZShop.com to listen to pressure, buy some merch and maybe for the first time wonder maybe GZ is much funnier than you would expect. Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you. Day five of the 12 days of podcast, our favorite stupid annual treats that we give to our fans. How are we doing? Pretty good, I think. Are we going to make it? We are going to make it because the math is on our side. Okay. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hollaback. Shouts to John Brown out in Brooklyn. So, guys, the biggest news this week is that we are returning to New York. Yes, we live in New York, but we are returning to the stage in New York City. You asked for it. We deliver on January 10, 2018, Jeff. We're going to be at SOBs doing a live podcast. I'm putting it in the calendar right now. We're talking comedy, music, storytelling. It's an event you do not want to miss. If you went to our Highline show, you know what it is.

1:27.7

If you went to our SOBs show, you know what it is. If you're out in L.A. and you went to our show out there, you know what that is. And if you're out in London and you saw our show with DJ Semtex, then fly over. That's it. Just fly over and tell us that you know what it is. on January 10th, 2018, we're back at SOBs on stage.

1:47.2

Get your tickets right now. and tell us that you know what it is. On January 10th, 2018, we're back at SOBs on stage.

1:47.2

Get your tickets right now at It's The Real.com.

1:50.1

Now, we're not going to say that we're going to reunite Rockefeller Records again.

1:55.0

Why would we say that?

1:55.9

We're not saying anything.

1:57.9

We're definitely not going to say that we are celebrating Rockefeller Records again. That's not what we're doing on January 10th. But if you want to show up with that

2:06.7

in mind, we're not going to tell you that you shouldn't dream those dreams. Everybody should

2:11.5

have an active imagination as to what this show is going to be. So listen, January 10th, 2018,

2:16.8

in mere weeks, at SOBs here in new york city

2:20.0

we will be on stage and maybe maybe j z will be there we can neither confirm nor deny no we are

2:27.3

keeping our options open j z might be there j z listens to this podcast jay if you want to come through

2:33.5

we will not stop you.

2:35.8

I mean, like, listen, Jay's got a lot of things going on. One of those things might be coming to SOBs on January 10th. Do you know what he's doing on January 10th? I'm not saying on the podcast, but I'm also not not saying. Listen, guys, it's the real.com. I-T-S-T-H-E-R-E-A-L.

2:49.9

com is where you can go get your tickets.

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