#212: Jay Park

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Roc Nation singer/songwriter/rapper and son of Seattle, Washington, Jay Park to the Upper West Side! Jay speaks on growing up the son of travel agents in the Emerald City, running around town with his crew on a mission to make a career out of breakdancing, doing poorly in school and hiding his report cards from his parents, and with his back against the wall, auditioned for a Korean talent competition, which ended up getting him cast in a boy band. With his folks going through a tough time, Jay took the gig to support his family and flew to South Korea knowing nothing of the language or culture, not to mention the shock of K-Pop artist development. We discuss his time in 2PM, what differentiated them from 2AM, their supergroup 1 Day, his attempts to work the system and take care of his body and soul without losing who he was over three and a half years before they ever dropped a project, and why he left the group. Jay gets into the reality of coming back to Seattle, his job working at a used tire shop, how his love for music came back, how starting to sing YouTube covers in the bathroom gained him a fanbase, why he felt weird about it, and how it ultimately make him an international draw once again. All that, plus the levels of Korean tattoos, friends by convenience, holding onto creative control, getting a 2 Chainz verse, living in Korea as former member of a boy band, becoming a businessman, his latest project Ask Bout Me, and 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.
0:00.6	Hey, Eric.
0:01.8	How are you?
0:02.1	I'm pretty good. How are you?
0:03.2	Doing well, thank you.
0:23.7	You know, when we started two Jews and two black Jews review the movies last November, December, there were so many people who hit us and were like, this is a great idea. But there were some people who were like, you know what, don't include the locks. Yeah. They're too old. Too out of touch. Yeah.
0:21.0	They're two yonkers, whatever that means. There were people who were like, you shouldn't have that name. Two Jews and two black dudes review the movies. Oh my God. It's going to piss people off. I should say, I'm saying, yeah, like there are people who said that. Like, not that I'm agreeing. Right. You're not saying that the locks
0:38.1	shouldn't be in it and they're too yonkers. Or that they're too old and too out of touch. None of that.
0:42.3	I'm not, I'm not the one saying that. Correct. You're all about the idea. You're in. Well, I mean, don't put words in my mouth.
0:48.3	All right.
0:48.8	But like let's,
0:49.8	people said it and I'm on board.
0:53.1	Now you're on board.
0:53.9	Now I'm on board.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:55.2	So along the way, people told us you, People said it, and I'm on board. Now you're on board. Now I'm on board.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.3	So along the way, people told us, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this.
1:00.1	Those same people have returned to the table, and they have said...
1:04.7	Hold on.
1:05.3	I'm at the table right now.
1:06.4	And they have said...
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