#273: Sophia Chang

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome music executive, marketing maven, artist manager, full-time mother and game-changer in the flesh, Sophia Chang to the Upper West Side! Sophia, whose audio memoir The Baddest Bitch in the Room will be available exclusively on audible.com starting September 26th, discusses being raised in Vancouver, BC, the daughter of a North Korean mother and a South Korean father, the realities of not finding representation in mass media, growing up popular and outgoing and brilliant, yet still being an outsider, the beauty and the quiet of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the energy and vibrations and pull of New York City. Sophia gets into her early days as an assistant for Paul Simon, meeting Joey Ramone, expecting to run into Woody Allen walking the streets, experiencing Manhattan in its dirty era, her love for lyricism as well as baselines, her time at Jive Records, crossing paths with UGK, and befriending fellow industry titan Chris Lighty. We talk about her time with Wu-Tang, taking RZA to China to study with and perform for kung-fu masters, her thoughts on the Of Mics and Men documentary, leaving the music business for a dozen years, later working with artists like Joey Badass and G Herbo, living in and loving the hip-hop culture, and calling out and cutting out those who didn't. All that, plus how motherhood changed everything, how it felt to uplift artists in every aspect of their lives, as well as them uplifting hers, making peace with relationships coming to an end, the bigger mission of raising her children in New York City, whether or not Paul Simon cheats in Scrabble, and much, 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. Do you know
0:04.5	that it's the real.com slash shop? We have brand new It's the Real t-shirts available right now.
0:11.4	Wait, we do. Did you know that? Is it a problem that I did not know? Like, I feel like there's a
0:16.0	problem in our company. I'm just so checked out. I think there is a huge problem that you don't know. You should
0:22.1	go on your brand new iPhone right now and go to It's theReal.com slash shop and go check out
0:27.3	our selection. But, you know, we always do say t-shirt sales and everything that people buy from
0:32.8	our website that really helps the company. That is true. I'm just using the money for my new iPhone. I get it.
0:37.9	I get it, Jeff.
0:38.5	And I'm not mad at it.
0:39.8	This is like when Joe Austin has like a private jet.
0:44.0	And it's like, wait, where did all my money go from the collection plate?
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:47.5	It goes to a private jet.
0:48.6	Mine is going to an iPhone 11.
0:50.7	Well, shout out to you, Jeff.
0:51.8	I appreciate the transparency and congratulations on all your new
0:57.4	vent. But in the meantime, that being said, I can afford an iPhone 11, but I can't afford my rent.
1:02.0	So, you know, choices. Yeah. But here's, here's why I bring it up is because we've been trying to get
1:07.5	our t-shirts and our presence, our larger presence, in every one of the 50 states of the United States of America.
1:14.6	Oh, we're like, what, 40 states in?
1:17.6	Something like that.
1:18.4	I'll tell you this.
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