#298: Ryan Leslie
A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal
ItsTheReal
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome producer/singer/rapper/tech CEO Ryan Leslie to the Upper West Side for a thoughtful, hilarious and meaningful conversation about music, operating direct-to-consumer, dignity, artistry, hard work and vision, plus stories about Fabolous, Cassie, Jagged Edge, Tommy Motolla, Miley Cyrus and much more!
6:59 AKAs Eric aka Ain’t Nothing to Cut My Bitch Off aka ASPCA
Jeff aka Melt the Block aka Fondue
Ryan Leslie aka The Slasher
Ryan Leslie speaks about:
7:37 Being first through the “door”/ His family and upbringing
19:26 Never dumbing down/His early production/songwriting
32:59 His love for Stevie Wonder/ Being a musician while being a student at Harvard
40:30 His toughest time as a musician/ Having co-signs,mentors, friendships
52:30 Artists he has helped using direct audience ownership/ Being passionate about whatever he is working on
1:01:15 His beat building videos on YouTube/ The ability to search and find what you’re looking for
1:08:48 Meetings with tech companies vs. Meetings in the music industry
1:21:45 Relationship with Fabolous/ Creative process when working in different studios
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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 back in New York |
| 0:04.3 | City after a much needed and well-deserved vacation out to... You had a sort of Canadian cadence there. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, that does work, being that we went to Vancouver, British Columbia. Yeah. Why do you keep |
| 0:18.1 | talking like Nardwar? We went to... Because we went to his hometown. We were up there. You know what's funny? Is that, yeah, you have the occasional person like the border guard who was like pretty Canadian, you know. He was very Canadian. Yeah, you get the A and you get like different inflections and. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But there was one morning when we went to get breakfast and the spot didn't open for another 10 minutes. |
| 0:44.0 | So we were walking around and there was this nice view of the water and we walked over. |
| 0:48.8 | And we're on the sidewalk. |
| 0:50.9 | We're moving forward. |
| 0:52.4 | And all of a sudden, this guy jumps out of a police car |
| 0:56.5 | and throws his hands up, and this guy couldn't have been more Canadian if he tried. He was |
| 1:01.6 | like straight out of like Mike Myers Central casting. He was like, hey, excuse me, folks, |
| 1:07.8 | would you mind if you cross the street? Pardon? Yeah? Yeah, because there was a partially downed street lamp. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.3 | And this dude was like the most cautious, the most careful, and we're like, all right. |
| 1:22.0 | If this was New York City, that would never happen. |
| 1:25.4 | This guy's sole purpose was to watch this street lamp |
| 1:28.9 | and make sure it didn't get within 10 feet of the nearest pedestrians. |
| 1:34.4 | Thank you. So we went up to Vancouver. We went up to Seattle. What'd you like about the cities? |
| 1:39.9 | First of all, the food was amazing in both cities. Yep. You know, fish, Asian food. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.3 | I did not enjoy the rain. |
| 1:46.6 | You did not enjoy the rain. |
| 1:47.7 | No. |
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