#254: Ciesay from Places + Faces

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome photographer/clothing designer/DJ/party promoter Ciesay from Places + Faces to the Upper West Side! Fresh off the stage from Places + Faces' first Boiler Room concert in NYC, where Cam'Ron, Jim Jones, Amine, Valee, Sahbabii and many more performed, Ciesay discusses growing up between South London, England and Gambia, the son of an importer/exporter father and a mother who worked for the United Nations, what popular culture he picked up vs. missed out on, the bootleg merch he wore as a child, how stamped-up his passport became at an early age, and the racism he encountered both abroad and at home. Ciesay dives into his first trip alone, to New York City, after an invite from a distant relative came through Facebook, how he used his time in New York to immerse himself in the burgeoning hip-hop scene of the 2010s alongside A$AP Mob, Travis Scott, Big Sean and Drake, the methods he'd use to sneak into concerts, how he made his name as a photographer, and all the terrible filters he used on early Instagram. We get into singular moments in his photography with DMX, Kanye, Tyler the Creator and Bryson Tiller, how he made sweatshirts with his last 300 British Pounds, his friends moshed in them, and he had to take it as a loss, borrowed money from friends, and built a brand that was so dope soon enough Wiz Khalifa was rocking it on his birthday. We talk about how Places + Faces developed their business, their ethos, and how they chose what lanes to occupy, what brands they collaborate with, learning how to be patient with how partnerships and products develop, and how they're organically creating tangible moments for a new generation across lots of mediums. All that, plus where Ciesay has gotten the most lost in the world, why P+F still feels like a London brand while selling all over the world, whether we will all in fact #ComeToBrazil, what the real national anthem of Gambia is, 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.
0:03.7	You know, we tell people all the time follow us on Instagram at It's the Real Facebook, whatever.
0:07.9	It's the real. It's at It's the Real. Wait, why are you? I'm not on Facebook. I'm just saying. I don't, you know, what are we? What are we really? At it's the real. None of this is difficult. Twitter, we're at it's the real, but here's why I bring this up, Jeff, because now do we have to warn people if you're going to follow us on Twitter, understand the content is strictly about documentaries? Well, okay, you're saying that because I've been tweeting about documentaries. Yeah. Not, I mean, I'm not tweeting about other things. And you're just like, hey, you want to know what follows for intelligence about documentaries? All right. Just documentary talk. Yeah, just documentary talk. If you're looking for us. But Waulay really led the way because Waale gave up on talking about rap, talking about wrestling, talking about whatever else. Yeah. Now he's strictly talking about food. That's it. Raman and Fah. Mostly ramen and Fah.
0:54.9	Yeah.
0:55.6	Also, I think halal maybe, but mostly ramen and Fah. Yeah. F out of here, you know? And so, yeah, I'm talking about documentaries. We just saw the one with Wu-Tang. It's a great documentary. Of Mikes and Men on Showtime. Yep. Four-part series directed by Sasha Jenkins from the Ego Trip Collective.
1:12.9	And it's great.
1:14.2	There's some ups. of mics and men on Showtime. Yep. Four part series directed by Sasha Jenkins from the Ego Trip Collective.
1:12.8	And it's great.
1:14.2	There's some ups.
1:15.0	There's some downs.
1:16.1	There's way more members of Wu-Tang than you might remember.
1:19.3	You know what?
1:20.7	I was surprised because there were less than I remember.
1:24.4	Yes.
1:25.1	Sure.
1:25.5	I remember names that I can't even imagine right now.
1:29.1	Yeah, like, you know, like Jerry, the biologist or whatever.
1:34.8	He's my favorite member of Wu Tang.
1:36.6	It actually makes me think that a year and a half ago, whenever Gramies was in New York,
1:43.9	the Roots were performing all week long.
1:46.4	They had a residency at the Gramacy Theater.
1:48.9	And we went to go check it out and say hi to people and just enjoy the festivities.
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