#218: Tru Life

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Tru Life to the Upper West Side for one of the realest, most harrowing, most compelling and inspiring conversations we've ever had. Tru details his tough early years in New York City's Lower East Side, how he decided school wasn't for him, how music led to recording sessions at Mark and Donnie Wahlberg's studio, connecting with Snoop Dogg, and how Ving Rhames looked out strictly because he believed in Tru Life's talents. We discuss the DVD era and how the drama undermined an artist's talents, how Sickamore brought out the best in Tru's abilities, how Green Lantern called up Jay-Z and convinced him to not fly out of town and instead take a meeting with Tru Life, how Jay refused to let Tru leave the office until he signed a deal with Roc La Familia, and how Cipha Sounds started off as Tru's A&R, but became as close as blood brothers. Tru gets into his time away, the weight of facing a life sentence, figuring out whether loyalty and codes really meant anything, the tears he shed over not seeing his kids grow up, why he dedicated himself to his studies, and what ultimately got him through his eight years behind bars. We get into the realities of going from the system to freedom, how he wasn't ready for the trappings of the music industry upon his release, how he's grown over the past two years, moving to the suburbs, and what he's bringing to the table with his new music. All that, plus stories about Jay, Beyonce, TI, Future, Bobby Shmurda, Tory Lanez, Jim Jones, the inmates who broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility while he was there, 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. You know,
0:04.3	some weeks are tougher to come up with a intro for you guys than others. Some weeks are really easy.
0:11.2	Last week, obviously, we had to switch up in the middle because our wall was being torn down.
0:17.0	But, you know, I recently got invited to my high school reunion and I said I didn't want to go.
0:26.0	And you, our friend Greg, our friend Shinske, I don't know if our brother Dan was on board,
0:33.6	but you guys were willing to start a go fund me to pay for me to go to my high school reunion just so I could get some stories for the podcast intro. Well, because you, you so don't want to go. I don't want to go. I feel like no one would know what I do for a living. Yeah, well, it's all these people who like have started families or whatever.
0:54.4	And that's fine.
0:55.4	Yeah,
0:55.6	and that's great.
0:56.5	And then you come in there and you're just like,
0:57.9	hey,
0:58.1	so like I do this thing and, you know, you would name a bunch of artists that nobody knows. Right. And a bunch of behind the scenes people that definitely nobody knows. So it's a lot. sometimes your friends want to start a go fund me to just get intro stories.
1:11.0	Anyway, so if you want to raise $130 fund me to just get intro stories.
1:11.0	Anyway, so if you want to raise $130 with us, we are absolutely sending.
1:15.7	It's 120.
1:16.6	It's 120.
1:17.3	But it's not even about the money, just to be completely honest.
1:19.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:20.0	But here's what happened this week, too.
1:21.9	And this is what I wanted to talk about, what you wanted to talk about during the intro of this podcast, which is that as a lot of you know,
1:28.7	our mom on October 17th was hit by a car when she was crossing the street.
1:34.8	She was in the hospital for a week and a half.
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