#280: Dreka Gates

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Dreka Gates - Kevin Gates' partner in life and business - back to the Upper West Side for her own episode! Dreka discusses her upbringing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, meeting Kevin as a high school senior outside her brother's football game, the phone calls, conversations and intellect they traded as friends before they started dating, the way she responded to his power with words, the heartbreak of her family not wanted the relationship to continue, and the resolve it took to block that out and keep pushing forward with Kevin. We talk about how her selflessness and dedication in helping others led her from pre-med dreams to supporting Kevin's music, how quickly she took to music management, how she saw the road ahead as them against the world, how for a time she dove into the streets to make ends meet, and how together she and Kevin built something lasting and meaningful. Dreka details the independent grind around Louisiana, from the radio stations to the clubs to the local record labels, and how through hard work, putting touring money back into the business, plus a ton of powerful records, they established themselves around the South, attracting attention from major labels, including their future home, Atlantic Records. We get into why they moved their family from Louisiana to Texas to Georgia to Miami and now to Calabasas, whether they're looking to head someplace once again, how they changed their diets, how they raised their children, how they found a balance between work and home life, how it feels to win in the music business on their terms, how Kevin proposed marriage, what it was like to stand before their families and take their wedding vows, and so very much more!!

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you?
0:02.3	Doing well, thank you. We live in New York City. We've lived here for 12 years.
0:06.4	And it's always funny to me when we run into people on the subway and they're just like, you guys take the subway?
0:11.2	It's like, yeah. Yeah, the limo is in the shop. You know, no, we take the fastest form of transportation, whatever city that we're in. And we were just down in Atlanta. We're actually
0:21.0	going back again tomorrow for like a week. And down there, they do have public transportation.
0:27.6	The MARTA, shouts to the MARTA. Shouts to them because? You said it. So it's like one of those
0:31.7	things. Like, you know how in any interview, if you say something, people were just like show shots to i guess so shouts to that
0:37.6	shouts to martha yeah uh we've never taken martha just in case anybody in Atlanta is like hey
0:42.8	we just take ubers down there you know that's just like that's to uber it's the it's the
0:46.1	fastest way to move around that city and when you're down there you're going to 30 minutes away
0:51.9	or you're going five minutes away, you call an Uber and you
0:54.6	jump into it. Is this an ad? This is not an ad. Shots to Uber. We take Lyft as well. Whatever,
0:59.9	whatever the service is. If you're going five minutes or 30 minutes, you take the quickest and
1:05.1	easiest transportation. The thing is, we're not taking the MARTA. We're not walking. You just call a car. I would take MARTA. Really? I would do it. Okay. Yeah.
1:11.5	When we get down there, you can take MARTA. Well, I mean, no. Here's a thing. No, because we're
1:15.7	being flown down by Red Bull. Shout out to Red Bull. And Red Bull has a car budget for us. Yeah.
1:22.0	So we take the Uber. They don't have a MARTA budget for us, but if they did have a MARTA budget, you would take it? I would take it.
1:27.8	If they gave you a MARTA card, I don't even know if that's a thing, but if they gave you a MARTA card to swipe.
1:31.8	Yeah, I'm trying to support the city of Atlanta.
1:33.3	We're going back there. We're going to shop at local businesses.
1:37.4	We're going to move around town. is via ride sharing services like Uber. Yeah. And as you said on Twitter, we get into the nicest conversations with the most dynamic drivers
1:50.4	in the city.
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