#174: Director Nabil Elderkin

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we found ourselves back on the West Coast, and welcomed into the house of dynamic photographer, music video visionary and feature film director Nabil Elderkin! Nabil talks about growing up in Port Macquarie, Australia, taking up photography after surfing and lifeguarding didn't prove fruitful, failing high school photography due to his pushing boundaries, and his father sending him to live with his mother in America. We discuss finishing high school in Chicago, photographing the local music scene, and landing on the sounds of an up-and-coming producer/rapper named Kanye West. Nabil speaks on buying KanyeWest.com and trading it to Roc-A-Fella Records for a chance to photograph Kanye, becoming Ye's trusted documentarian, working with Don C, Twista, Consequence, and Coodie & Chike, meeting will.i.am who asked him to direct a music video for the Black Eyed Peas, and transforming that into directing career, shooting Ye's Throw Some D's (Remix), John Legend's All of Me, Kendrick Lamar's DNA, G.O.O.D. Music's Mercy, and many more. And as Nabil finishes preparations for Gully, his first feature film which has been four years in the making, we get into meeting Nelson Mandela, documenting war-torn Rwanda, exhibiting at the UN, running around Kanye's stage shows, the energy of the Watch the Throne tour, attending John Legend and Chrissy Teigen's wedding, how Don Cheadle improvised on set, directing a Super Bowl commercial with Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman, 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? Doing well. Thank you. Back from
0:03.7	Los Angeles. How'd you feel about the trip? I felt really good. We got a lot done. We did. Had some not great weather. We'll deal. Yeah. It's better than New York weather. Had some good food. We did. Had some great meetings. We did. And we were on Be Real's podcast. Be Real from Cypress Hill. That was really dope. Shout out to
0:19.9	Be Real and the whole Dr. Green Thumb family.
0:22.2	Usually he takes his guests into the
0:23.8	smoke box, which is a, he has a car and you smoke, and sometimes you get interviewed, and that's the whole bit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't smoke. Right. And so we were relegated to a couch. Which was fine. He called it the joke box. We had a great time.
0:38.5	And at the end, at the end, I asked if we could wrap Snoop Dog's Vado, which he's on
0:44.2	the hook for.
0:44.9	Right.
0:45.3	And he was game for it.
0:46.7	So that was cool.
0:47.2	Amazing.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.1	Unbelievable.
0:49.2	And one of the greatest things was that we had a meetup with a bunch of fans at Los Angeles's Union Station.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:57.5	So people came from all over to hang out with us, to kick it, to tell stories and joke around and get some inspiration.
1:05.4	And our guy, Len Anderson, was there to capture everything on his camera, which was super dope.
1:09.6	And one of the dudes who's from
1:11.3	San Diego, his name is El Stompo. He is a big time fan of our Instagram live. And a loyal
1:17.7	listener to the podcast brought a notebook with him. And he said that he uses that to jot down
1:23.7	all of his dreams that he wants to turn into realities. And he asked us to leave an inscription there, which was really, really, really awesome. And we were honored to do so. And it reminded us of when we had Bobby Trends on the podcast. And Bobby Trends, first of all, one of my favorite episodes. I always say he's my favorite episode. People should go check it out. Yeah, but I mean, a few episodes have happened since then. So it's not my favorite, favorite episode, but it is one of my favorite episodes.
1:46.4	And Bobby comes in, and he has a notebook.
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