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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#278: The Return of Smoke DZA

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome one of the most prolific rappers of our generation and our friend, Smoke DZA, back to the Upper West Side! DZA talks his new collaboration with Benny the Butcher, Statue of Limitations, meeting Rihanna at Rolling Loud, getting on a song with Fat Joe and Bun B and Statik Selektah, growing up battle rapping, standing outside Hot 97 waiting to give DJ Kay Slay a CD, asking Bodega Bamz's mom to call his job and tell them he was quitting, spending time in the Hamptons with Jonny Shipes, Ev Boogie and Scott Disick, where he ranks amongst basketball-playing rappers, cooking up at Dame Dash's TriBeCa dojo alongside Curren$y, Ski Beatz, Jay Electronica, when he wears Uptowns, when he wears all white outfits, how easy it is to give up and what's kept his creating through the years, getting to a place where his business is all the way good, what he's got in the stash and when we'll hear it, hinting at diving into the podcast game, 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, Jeff. It's Halloween week yet again. It happens every week. Nope. Yep. Happens every year. It happens every single week. It feels like it happens every single week because everybody's always wearing their costumes. You know, they're all fake people. Because we have to think about getting into these stupid costumes and showing out once a year at all these parties.

0:25.9

Wow, wow, wow, wah.

0:27.0

Yeah, real tough life.

0:28.1

I have to come up with one clever idea.

0:31.0

Well, no, because last year there were two, right?

0:32.7

Yeah.

0:33.0

But here's the bigger issue is that you killed it last year.

0:36.1

You were Dennis Graham, Drake's father,

0:38.8

yep, two different parties, two different Dennis Graham's. Yeah, because he mixes high and low,

0:45.3

right? So you sort of have to mix the sweatsuit with the hard bottoms with the square toe,

0:51.4

and then you also have the one where he's wearing like a nice

0:55.0

suit but then matching it with Jordans. And then there's always the matching du rag.

0:59.0

And there was such a big reaction last year to your costume. Yeah. Both nights. I don't think

1:03.8

I'm going to top it. Well, but that's fine. That was that was the goal or that was that was the issue.

1:09.0

Oh, I don't know. I don't have that issue i think you have that

1:11.4

issue i do i was concerned on your behalf jow i don't care are are you going to do it am i going to

1:17.0

top it yes i i don't think so i mean like you know that's a that's a that's a great costume i did last

1:21.8

year but you do have an idea for this year sure i have an idea for this year. Yeah. We've put a bunch of work, probably more than

1:29.2

necessary. I don't think I put in that much work. You don't think so? I bought a white

1:32.4

sweatshirt. The mental work. Now I just have to get something printed on it. Did you think

1:36.4

that you were going to be anything else than this right here? Yes. I had so many ideas. Okay. See,

1:41.1

a lot of work. A lot of work. Well, I mean, sure, there were mental gymnastics

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