#162: Mayor

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 138 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome one of the most notable and influential sneaker collectors today and over the last thirty years, Mayor, to the Upper West Side! Mayor discusses growing up in The Bronx under the no-nonsense wing of his bingo-playing, knife-weilding mother, watching big rappers roll into his childhood neighborhood to bag all the best girls, and how local kids fronting on his elementary school sneakers provided the battery in his back that led him to grow one of the most legendary shoe collections in the world. We talk early jobs at Blimpie, at a shoe store uptown, and in shaving crack down to make a profit behind the big dealers' backs. Mayor details going to high school with Fat Joe, investing in the seminal nightclub Esso, visits from Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Foxy Brown and Lil Kim and Puffy bringing in the highest bar night ever to that point, meeting DJ Clark Kent and wanting a stereo system just like Clark's, as well as the incredible circumstances that led the nightclub to ultimately shut down. Mayor gets into the reasons why he went to jail at 30 years old, what happened mere hours after he got released, how he moved past the street life into private business, and how publications, influencers and tastemakers made Mayor, as he claims, "fake famous." All that plus fatherhood, getting his driver's license at 23 years old, being overly honest with Mary J. Blige, his thoughts on the sneaker resale game, how exactly he got the new KAWS Jordan 4s, what animal Pusha T is deathly afraid of, and 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?
0:02.4	Doing well, thank you.
0:03.6	2017 for It's the Real has been extremely successful by every metric. Every single metric, but especially when it comes down to the numbers. Those are metrics. Those are the metrics. So let's go through them, Jeff. Here's a list of all the numbers that matter to It's the Real. We did 7,000 miles to and from London. 7,000 is the number of times we talked about going to Nando's.
0:22.6	And one is the number of times we talked about going to Nando's.
0:22.6	And one is the number of times we actually went to Nando's. All right. 66 is the number of episodes we did of a waste of time with it's the real. And 66 times you said, where are you originally from? That is true. 66 is also the number of times. A guest has been like, wait, there's another brother. And three are the number of
0:37.8	Rosenthal Brothers there are. One is the number of debut albums that we put out this year. And it took
0:43.1	us three years to work on the debut album. We popped two bottles of champagne in the street at
0:48.2	midnight when we released the album. And we had one phone call from our mom saying that she bought
0:52.6	the album on iTunes, listened to the whole thing straight through, and cried tears of joy.
0:56.7	Which is so much better than the alternative, by the way.
0:59.7	One is the number of concerts that we sold out at SOBs in 2017.
1:04.3	Three months before we dropped our debut album.
1:06.2	Right.
1:06.6	400 is the number of people who waited for two hours for us to hit the stage because
1:10.3	Just Blaze was running late.
1:11.5	And 515,000 plays on Spotify for Sugar High featuring Currency and Smoke Dizzy, which almost did
1:16.8	not make the album.
1:17.6	That is true.
1:18.8	212,000 plays so far on Spotify for Girl Your Ass is Like a Metaphor.
1:22.7	Two times we shot the exact same video for Waco.
1:25.7	10 members of Rockefeller on the same stage with us.
1:29.4	And 600 people in the building watching live.
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