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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#252: TOBi

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Toronto singer TOBi, whose debut album Still drops this week, to the Upper West Side! TOBi talks growing up in Nigeria, who amongst his siblings makes the best jollof, his family's big move across the world to Canada, how he adapted to the cold, to the school system, to both Canadian culture and other immigrants' cultures, and even getting used to the Americanized use of the word "cool." We get into his love for sports and music and his city, growing up listening to The LOX and Outkast, how he was battle-rapping in high school, how he would integrate it into his school assignments, recording songs into a Sony Erickson phone, how he tried to keep it a secret from his parents, and how they ultimately found out. We talk about Drake's influence on Toronto, how his music spoke to TOBi throughout the years, the tenth anniversary of So Far Gone, and the time he snuck into OVOFest while working at an amusement park next door. TOBi shares who he makes his music for, whether you can ever feel like the person who wrote songs from long ago and a career away, before co-signs from Jaime Foxx, Tiffany Haddish, The Game, what's poppin' about Brampton, his time as a pre-med student, the role D-Pryde played in helping TOBi's career move in the right direction 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. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you. A lot of people at this

0:04.4

point know that Webster Hall is back in business. It is reopened. And the first guest that they got

0:13.4

to grace their stage in the new Webster Hall. Daniel Webster was Jay-Z. And he brought out a bunch of special guests. Yep, not us. Not us. We were not in the building. And we got a lot of people hitting us up like, oh, my God, I can't believe it's the real's not there or is it's the real there or it's the real's got to be there. And we were not. No, but I think it's very big of us to admit that we were not there.

0:37.9

It wasn't like, you know, like, oh, I didn't want to go. Right. Or like, no, we were not, we were not in the building. We were actually sitting here. Could have been there, but had better things to do. No, the truth is that we were not. And it's okay that we were not. Yes. Right. That's so brave.

0:53.1

There's so many reasons why, right?

0:57.1

Well, I can think of one. We didn't have tuxitos. Or tickets. You had to have tuxedos. You had to have tuxedos. I ran into Mall from the Joe Budden podcast and he said that he was invited, you know, to go along with his brother and his friends and everything. Yeah. But he had to wear a tuxedo if he wanted to go. And he took that. Like this? No. Like they were playing a practical joke on him. He was like, the only people I saw that had to wear tuxes were on stage. No, no, no, no, no, no. Law was wearing it and Lenny was wearing it.

1:29.0

And a lot of people upstairs were wearing. Fab wasn't wearing a tuxedos. Fab was not, right? Fab is one of us. Like, he could or could not have been there and he, you know. Yeah, but he was there. I know he was. No, don't complain. remember remember Jeff no I I I, I, I, I go low. At home.

1:44.5

Yeah.

1:44.9

When we, when we, we stay home. Yeah. No, so we were, we were not in the building and that's quite all right. Mm-hmm. Again, no, Jeff, it was fine. It's fine. I'm okay not being there. It's totally fine. We were not in the building. Nation wants to update their mailing list.

2:02.0

I'll happily take that offer.

2:04.0

But, you know, it's okay. Like, I was happy to be at home searching for people on Instagram live. So that's the truth. That's, I'm being completely serious. There were. I was fine. That's right. Yeah. There's all these times when it's like, it's really nice that there's two of us because one

2:22.3

of us can, you know, send the image airplay onto our TV.

2:27.9

Right.

2:28.2

While the other one searches to find out who has the better angle to watch this feed from.

2:33.5

Yeah.

2:33.6

But really, a lot of our friends were there. Coza, Niles G. Della, Jazz Po,

2:39.6

FAB, whoever was there. Yeah. Broadcasting from their phones.

2:43.0

I like that you snuck Fab in there. You know, he was there. He was there. He's

2:46.0

verified. Friend of the room. A verified friend. And and we were watching. Well listen, shout it to Fab to begin with, but he had the worst angle.

2:54.8

Update your phone, my guy.

2:56.3

Yeah, it was like a 1987, like Tetris.

3:00.4

Not great.

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