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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#62: DJ Drama

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the undisputed king of mixtapes, DJ Drama, to the Upper West Side! A longtime friend (as well as previous guest on the Lil Uzi Vert episode), Drama is promoting his new album Quality Street Music 2, available July 22nd! He talks about his journey from Philadelphia backpack rap fan to more-worldly student at Clark Atlanta University to leader in Atlanta's movement to the center of hip-hop in the early 2000's. We discuss working with Jeezy, T.I., Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Pharrell, Little Brother, R. Kelly, and so many others, his early days in Atlanta playing clubs and poolside at Evander Holyfield's mansion, and what it means to team with this generation's own rockstar, Lil Uzi Vert! 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. We are back. This week was a great week for It's the Real. We did it. We did a bunch of stuff this week. We went and saw this documentary on Anthony Wiener, the disgraced New York congressman turned mayoral candidate. Yeah, he had a little bit of a dick moment in the middle. Would you call it a boxer brief moment? I would. I would also call it just like a really big fuck up.

0:24.4

Yeah. bit of a dick moment in the middle. Would you call it a boxer brief moment?

0:21.4

I would.

0:21.9

I would also call it just like a really big fuck up.

0:24.4

Yeah.

0:25.8

If people don't know, Anthony Weiner was one of the first politicians to take a dick pick

0:32.0

and mistakenly send it as a...

0:34.7

He meant to DM it to his lady, Sydney Le leathers no no no no it was a different one

0:39.8

there were there were sydney leathers was like way down the line yeah that was when he was calling

0:44.8

himself carlos danger there was a whole bunch of dick picks that he would send anyway

0:49.5

spoiler alert he's a loser yeah and by the way the documentary is about more than that, but it does, it does touch upon that. In addition, this week, we went and we saw Boss from Dreamville. Yeah. Shout out to the Fiends. All the Queens was in the building. They sold out Highline Ballroom. Jay Cole came out as a special guest. Did like three songs. Crushed it. It was really awesome. Shout out to everyone from Interscope record. Shout out to our friends, uh, BossNod,

1:27.7

Justice, came out as a special guest. Did like three songs. Crushed it. It was really awesome. Shout it to everyone from Interscope record. Shouted to our friends. Boss Nod, Just Dave, and Big Waz who were also really in the building. I mean, those guys, those guys carried the flag for Boss. Like, they are. They are, no, they're the biggest fiends. And afterwards, we ran into them on the street and they they were having a the most intense conversation but this was not like for for fun for play this

1:34.2

was they were so serious about this argument remember what they were arguing about they wrapped us

1:38.9

up in it and it was the question was whether or not kendrick yeah could sell out msg and staple center no that's not the question was whether or not Kendrick could sell out

1:44.6

MSG and Staples Center

1:46.5

no that's not the question

1:48.7

yeah it was whether Kendrick was a bigger artist than

1:50.6

j cole that's the question and you said

1:52.8

I said that it could be argued that j cole was bigger than

1:57.0

kendrick I think no you said you said the other way you said

2:00.3

Kendrick is a bigger artist than Jay Cole.

2:17.4

You got to remember your arguments. Yeah, I don't know. You'd like to jump on either side of the argument. You were arguing with everybody. We also went to this... Wait, hold on. Neither one of us was really arguing. It's the three of them, like, those guys are loud mouths. No, I thought this is the greatest.

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