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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#77: Shari Bryant

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Harlem's own, our friend, the wonderful Shari Bryant, to the Upper West Side! Shari started high school at 12 years old, started working at Rocafella Records at 16, and speaks on Jay Z performing at her elementary school talent show, riding to work with Lenny S, ordering private planes for Cam'Ron, calling Kanye after his accident to check in, only for Ye to spit Through the Wire to her over the phone. Plus, she discusses how she helped Jadakiss get to the top of the charts, her time with MMG, working with Chaka Pilgrim, Dame Dash, recent guests of A Waste of Time Young Sav, Steve-O, Wayno Clark and much more!!! 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

0:03.4

great week for It's the Real. Another one. Another one. Jeff, Dave Matthews Band's is ringing out

0:11.0

in these streets. It's ringing out on SoundCloud. It's ringing out on YouTube. And the big plan for

0:17.9

us was to run around New York City and get our promo items to a number of

0:23.6

tastemakers, influencers, personalities, whoever, who was on that list?

0:27.7

Everybody from Charlamagne the God, we had Tachstone, we had Peter Rosenberg, we had

0:33.0

Ebro, we had everybody at Power 105, every 107, everybody at MTV.

0:37.5

Yeah, the promo items were Ziploc bags with stacks of fake money that looked real

0:44.7

because we got them from a real movie prop house in Florida.

0:47.8

Yeah.

0:48.1

And also, like, the joke is that we put it in a bag.

0:50.7

It says payola on it.

0:51.7

And it's not funny if you're actually giving out payola.

0:54.0

Like, there's no joke to that. All the people who were just like, hey, I wish this was real money. I wish that you were a comedian and you understood that that's not funny. And so, and it also had a CD jewel case with our cover art in there. You open it up. There's no CD. Yeah. It says YouTube.com slash it's

1:11.2

the real and soundcloud.com slash it's the real hashtag Dave Matthews bands. So we run around,

1:15.9

we give this out. And at the very, very, very top of the list, we had Leor Cohen. Now, if anybody

1:24.7

has listened to this podcast for the last year plus, you know that Leor is somebody that we wanted to have on this podcast.

1:33.3

He's somebody that we wanted to chase down.

1:35.2

We wanted to commit to being a guest on this podcast.

1:39.4

And what happened six months ago was that we actually met him in real life.

1:45.0

Yes.

1:45.3

We had a meeting with him where he, first of all, he really liked us.

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