#172: PRhyme (Royce da 5'9 and DJ Premier)

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome legendary lyricist Royce da 5'9 and legendary producer DJ Premier, together known as PRhyme, to the Upper West Side! We talk with the guys about their new album PRhyme 2, the most meaningful co-signs they've ever received, what Dr. Dre's studio speakers can do to an artist's music and their chest, how to react to internet trolls, all the numbers they have in their cell phones but never text, and their first ever TV appearances. Royce discusses working three jobs a day after graduating high school in addition to starting his rap career, all with the threat of his father sending him to the army hanging over his head. Royce recalls almost rapping for Redman in Detroit, the open mics around town, his one-way plane ticket to NYC, working with Pharrell and Chad and Kelis before The Neptunes blew up, and how he ruined his first record contract with Tommy Boy. Preemo reveals how he and Guru lived out of Branford Marsalis' brownstone in Brooklyn, meeting Dave Chapelle through Talib Kweli and Mos Def, knowing Ol Dirty Bastard when he had a staircase flattop in 1988, programming drums on Gangstarr records together with Guru, each of them punching buttons, and the absurdity of artists being paid to make an appearance in a music video. All that plus stories from the guys about Slaughterhouse, Jay-Z, Eminem, Danny Brown, Onyx, RZA, Killer Mike, and so 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. How was
0:03.9	jury duty? I'm glad you asked. So I was called down to Jerry duty. I went down to the New York Supreme Court down on 60 Center Street. Right. I walk in there and I expect that it's going to be like every other time I get called to jury duty, which is you sit there for two days. You get paid $40 a day. You go to lunch. I get I get $40 lunches.
0:21.6	That's what goes on. As soon as they filled out the paperwork, they were like, it's 10 o'clock.
0:27.1	We need you and 140 others to go to the criminal building. The 140 that were with you, this wasn't
0:33.1	like, go round up 140 people and march down to criminal court. Me and 140 people. It looked like a dipset concert. Yeah, exactly. Me and all my friends. You were Cam. Yeah. Right. And we all went down to 100 Center Street. Okay. Go up to the 13th floor. And we're put in this room where the judge says, thank you for coming.
0:54.3	Here's your $40.
0:55.1	You can go to lunch.
0:55.8	He says, there is a trial that is going to be going on for 15 weeks.
1:01.4	And you said, well, I've got South by Southwest coming up.
1:06.6	I have a trip to L.A. coming up.
1:07.7	Oh, man.
1:08.1	I got out of a two-week trial as well, and so now I am here. Did you get, did you get called into anything to sit down and be able to say, go to It's theReal.com, get your tickets for the roots picnic where we're going to be performing on June 2nd? No, I wish I was able to. I ended up... Did you talk to anybody? Yes.
1:28.9	Mostly because I ended up in the wrong courtroom like two or three times.
1:34.5	Okay.
1:35.3	And so...
1:35.7	Your mistake?
1:37.0	I guess there's nobody in charge.
1:38.7	So you just sort of walk into courtrooms because there's a bunch...
1:42.0	There's like 60 people with you walking into these
1:44.9	court rooms are you saying the court system is flawed jeff that's the biggest problem with the court
1:48.4	system is that i don't know where to sit right well here's the biggest question though that we
1:53.2	should find out were you dressed appropriately i was dressed appropriately i was i gave so much
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