#78: Jeff Sledge

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2016

⏱️ 104 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome famed A&R Jeff Sledge to the Upper West Side to tell his incredible journey in the music business. Jeff shares stories about pushing Gang Starr records, shaping Shaq's first two albums, driving Will Smith up to Pete Rock's mom's house, why Pimp C only gave Jay Z twelve bars on Big Pimpin, Pimp C's reaction to Andre 3000 taking drums off the intro to International Player's Anthem, helping Best of Both Worlds come together, how Jive Records' legacy stands up to Def Jam's, what Missy Elliott has in store for 2017, and SO 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.
0:00.6	Hey, Eric.
0:01.1	How are you?
0:01.5	I'm pretty good.
0:02.1	How are you?
0:02.4	Doing well, thank you.
0:03.1	Another great week for It's the Real.
0:04.5	This past week?
0:05.2	Oh, definitely this last week.
0:06.5	And this upcoming week is looking great as well.
0:08.4	And we're going to start it off with an ad from our friends at Warby Parker.
0:11.4	Yes, Warby Parker.
0:12.4	I've been wearing glasses since I was 16 years old because I needed to drive and I also needed to see when I drove.
0:18.5	Very important, very major key.
0:20.3	But I've been wearing Warby Parker glasses for the past five years,
0:20.8	and I have to say I love them because they look good, they feel good,
0:24.0	and I also love that their shopping experience is so innovative and forward-looking.
0:28.2	They have this new thing called the Home Try-on Service,
0:34.3	where they will send you
0:37.4	five pairs of glasses to your home of your choosing and you send them back a week later after
0:38.6	trying them on and you're able to buy them without having to go to the store. So you don't have
0:45.1	to live in New York City to wear New York City style Warby Parker glasses. You could live somewhere in Iowa. You could live in Louisiana. You could live in New York City to wear New York City style Warby Parker glasses.
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