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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#258: Common

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we travelled to Los Angeles and sat down with Common for a deep, hilarious and very meaningful conversation. We talk the Obamas, Jay-Z, Beyonce, his daughter, Stacey Abrams, Be, American Gangster, the Wu-Tang documentary, Dilla, Questlove, going bald, visiting prisons, who he's confused for, what puts the A&M in FAMU, 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. Last week,

0:04.4

we had the distinct pleasure of having Trevor Noah, the host of the Daily Show. He has a podcast. He has a bookout. He has a world tour going on. He's very busy. So are we. I'm too busy to listen to all of his accomplishments. We had the pleasure of having him on the podcast, having a great conversation with him.

0:21.6

And I figure there's a lot of people who are tuning in this week. We had the pleasure of having him on the podcast, having a great conversation with him.

0:21.6

And I figure there's a lot of people who are tuning in this week who may not have been here

0:26.3

before that episode who might be like, who are these guys?

0:29.1

It's the real.

0:29.8

Yeah.

0:30.0

And the answer is it's us.

0:32.6

Yeah.

0:32.8

We are two brothers who live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

0:35.8

Yep.

0:36.3

Who for the past four years have

0:39.3

been inviting people that we fuck with over to our apartment.

0:42.3

That's comedians, that's rappers, that's producers, that's music executives, that's sports

0:47.6

executives, that's friends of ours, that's our mom.

0:51.3

We've had a lot of people up here, 258 episodes in, and it's been a really fun ride. We also have another podcast called Two Jews and Two Black Dudes Review the Movies. That's with our friends, Stiles P. and Sheik Luch of the Locks. Also, Jada Kiss. Jada Kiss, too. Jada Kiss is part of it. Yes. And we're hip-hop sketch comedians.

1:11.2

We've been around for 12 years, this career of hours, done a lot of things, worked with

1:16.3

a lot of your favorite people, Questlove to ASAP Rocky, to J. Cole, to Jemelle Hill, to

1:23.1

Angie Martinez, John Legend, and on and on.

1:26.3

Vinnie from Jersey Shore.

1:27.5

Cardi B.

1:28.4

And we have this really cool catalog of conversations that we've had that we really hope

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