#161: Shy Glizzy

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 12 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome Washington, DC's own, and 2018 Grammy-nominated, Shy Glizzy to the Upper West Side! Young Jefe discusses his distinctive voice, his amazing ear, how long it took him to figure out his sound, losing his father to violence at a super-early age, growing up on Go-Go music and Eazy-E, following in his rapper uncle's footsteps, he effect meeting Birdman had on him, why the DMV doesn't always support their own, his refusal to sign to any label at all, and what Kevin Liles and Lyor Cohen visiting personally meant in changing his mind about the signing process. We get into the making of the Grammy-nominated Crew, working with Young Thug and Peewee Longway, Young Money Yawn, GS9, Fabolous and Trey Songz, and wanting to work with Future. All that, plus raising his three-year old son in his own image, buying suburban houses yet staying in the streets, what he'll be wearing to the Grammy Awards, rebuilding his hometown and 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 12 of the 12 Days of Podcasts here at It's the Real. This series of 12 perfect episodes is brought to you by the good people at Def Jam. GZ's got a new album and it is great. If you like GZ to be GZ, listen to track five called This Is It or track 12 or track 12 or even tracks 1 through 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 because GZ is always
0:25.5	GZ all day, every day, including all 12 days of these 12 days of podcasts. Happy post-Hanica,
0:32.3	Merry Pre-Christmas. Go celebrate all day, all year on GZShop.com.
0:37.1	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank year on gZ shop.com. Hey, Jeff.
0:37.6	Hey, Eric.
0:38.2	How are you?
0:38.5	I'm pretty good.
0:39.1	How are you?
0:39.4	Doing well, thank you.
0:40.5	Day number 12 of the 12 days of podcast.
0:45.2	We made it.
0:46.2	We made it.
0:49.5	And here we are, Jeff.
0:50.5	Still standing, still operating, still breathing, and still not even Christmas yet,
0:54.9	but it's the holiday season. It looks like Christmas downstairs in our lobby, and 12 days
0:59.6	of podcasts ends today, but the podcast continues, obviously, next week and into the new year.
1:05.5	Thank you, everybody who has been supporting this podcast through all of 2017.
1:10.6	Yeah, I mean, our numbers, so we doubled from 2015 to 2016.
1:14.7	We doubled again from 2016 to 2017.
1:17.0	Cool.
1:17.5	I don't think math is on our side this time.
1:19.5	That's a lot of doubling.
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