#60: Lenny S

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome The Bronx's own Lenny S to the Upper West Side! These days he's constantly on the move as manager for DJ Khaled, Fabolous and Justine Skye, but Lenny's always been grinding, starting in the mid-1990's as a street team member for Bad Boy. Lenny shares stories about moving to Rocafella, becoming an A&R alongside Hip-Hop and Gee Roberson, working with Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Kanye West, Just Blaze, and a ton more artists. He gives insight into Jay Z's classic albums The Blueprint and The Black Album, talks about working for Def Jam, Virgin, and finally making the move to Roc Nation, and describes what working with DJ Khaled is really like. Lenny brings provides fascinating recollections, great humor, and of course, major keys on this fantastic episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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. Another great
0:06.0	week for me and you, aka it's the real. Busy week. Busy week for us. What we do? We went to an exhibition
0:12.5	celebrating Reasonable Doubt, J.Z's first album. They had all of the artwork and all of the photography
0:18.4	that Jonathan Mannion did 20 years ago all on the walls.
0:21.8	It was amazing.
0:22.7	Yeah, it was a bunch of mixed media.
0:24.1	You had the photos from that shoot.
0:26.6	Plus, you had some paintings that were based off of Jonathan's photographs.
0:32.8	It was a great collection of people that night, a really great vibe in the room.
0:36.6	I left there just so happy to be
0:39.3	invited and to be around all that excellence. We also went to... Actually, you want to know what? Jaroel was
0:45.6	there. Jarl rule was there. That was amazing. I started applauding when he came in because I didn't
0:50.7	know how it was to respond. We also went to go see Lou OuziVert at Irving
0:54.2	Plaza the other night. 21 Savage opened for him. Yep. It was unbelievable. The insanity of
1:02.0	these kids who love Lou Ouseyvert's music and he is a god to them. Yeah. He was like, you guys sing
1:08.8	to me, Acapella, and they sang every single word right back to him at the drop of a hat.
1:14.6	It was one hell of an experience, and if you have the chance to go see him live, I highly suggest it.
1:20.4	Also this week, I was really thrilled at the reaction that we got from the intro to last week's podcast with charlemagne the god which was a
1:29.3	great interview if i may say so myself but the intro we talked about how two chains added us on
1:34.0	twitter and wrote nah for real for real and we said that people out there who were listening
1:38.8	should add us and write not for real for real on twitter and what happened to our timeline timeline? Well, first of all, people listened, which is crazy.
1:46.0	That's nice.
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