#261: Shenseea

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Kingston, Jamaica's own dancehall artist, Shenseea to the Upper West Side! We talk growing up in the church, how her ever-present shyness mixed with performing in singing groups, popular music being kept from her, working in tourism on the island, not meeting her older brother until they were both grown-ups, how mature she believed she was and how much being a mother made her mature, covering songs and posting them to Facebook, keeping her singing dreams from her family, how they reacted to her explicit lyrics, taking on managers and producers and labels, moving into popular territory while maintaining a street edge, meeting Jay-Z, singing with Vybz Kartel, how she gained confidence on stage, her new single Blessed, why her Genius Verified episode might come across like she was on edibles, a potential collaboration with a neighbor up north, and much more!

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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.
0:03.2	Well, actually, let me, let me temper that. Yeah. I want to be completely transparent with everybody out there who listens to our podcast.
0:09.7	I'm almost pretty good because I've been dealing with a cough. Well, how is the cough doing?
0:15.2	Cough is doing great. Me, on the other hand, I'm doing almost pretty good. Almost pretty good. I just want to be clear with everybody.
0:21.6	I would never want to break that sort of bond of trust that we have with the people who
0:27.4	listen to our podcast weekend and week out.
0:29.0	Yeah, well, that's why this week we asked you out there, our listeners.
0:33.6	This is a really good transition.
0:34.8	I think so.
0:35.8	To submit some questions that we could answer here during the intro of this very podcast.
0:41.3	And I'm assuming that we got a couple.
0:43.6	We got a bunch.
0:45.1	All right.
0:45.6	Oh, a bunch.
0:46.5	Yeah, again, I want to be completely transparent.
0:49.5	We don't just have a couple of questions to answer.
0:52.9	We're not going to get to all of them on here.
0:54.9	There's a lot of questions. I will respond to them on Twitter. But we're going to get to
0:59.9	a bunch of them. Yeah. Well, what's the first of the bunch? All right. First question comes in from
1:04.7	Newface. Shout out to Newface. That's our guy down in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia, he is the hip-hop collector.
1:11.2	Yes.
1:12.6	He collects all the hip-hop merch.
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