#233: Don Will
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 11 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome rapper/DJ/comedian from Brooklyn by way of Cinncinati Don Will to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 37m Dec 23, 2018
1hr 37m
#232: Emmanuelle Cuny-Panicker
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 10 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome new SVP of Video at Capitol Records Emmanuelle Cuny-Panicker to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 42m Dec 22, 2018
1hr 42m
#231: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Home Alone
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 9 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, it's another episode of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies! Eric, Jeff, Styles, Sheek and Jadakiss watched the 1990 American Christmas comedy Home Alone! There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think!
54m Dec 21, 2018
54m
#230: Music Manager Josh Dick
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 8 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome music manager for Flatbush Zombies, A$AP Twelvyy and Hector Delgado, Josh Dick to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 29m Dec 20, 2018
1hr 29m
#229: The-Dream
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 7 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome the legendary singer/songwriter/producer The-Dream to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 30m Dec 19, 2018
1hr 30m
#228: Kaz Famuyide
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 6 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome podcaster/WWE writer/D'ussePalooza founding member Kaz Famuyide to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 40m Dec 17, 2018
1hr 40m
#227: Aminatou Sow
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 5 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome podcaster/digital strategist/interviewer/awesome person Aminatou Sow to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!
1hr 42m Dec 17, 2018
1hr 42m
#226: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Airplane!
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 4 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, it's another episode of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies! Eric, Jeff, Styles and Sheek watched the 1980 American satirical disaster film Airplane! There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think!
1hr 30m Dec 16, 2018
1hr 30m
#225: Denzel Curry
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 3 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we went down to Miami to visit with Denzel Curry for a wide-ranging and personal conversation. Listen now wherever podcasts are playing.
53m Dec 15, 2018
53m
#224: Kodak Black
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 2 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome Kodak Black to the Upper West Side for a wide-ranging and personal conversation.
45m Dec 14, 2018
45m
#223: GuapDad4000 Gives Advice
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 1 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome GuapDad4000 back to the Upper West Side to help answer the internet's most pressing questions!
1hr 5m Dec 13, 2018
1hr 5m
#222: Megan Thee Stallion
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Houston, Texas rapper, newest signee to 300, Instagram legend and current student at Texas Southern University, Megan Thee Stallion to the Upper West Side! Megan discusses growing up loving school, getting trouble for cursing at a young age, making best friends during a food fight, always being the tallest in her grade, trying every sport...
1hr 25m Dec 10, 2018
1hr 25m
#221: Meek Mill's Engineer Anthony Cruz
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Meek Mill's engineer Anthony Cruz to the Upper West Side to talk how Championships was put together, when he first heard the Jay-Z vocals, how the Drake collaboration came together, how he felt when Meek shouted him out, and how he felt when The Joe Budden Podcast shouted him out. With Meek's videographer Will joining in, we discuss Meek'...
1hr 37m Dec 04, 2018
1hr 37m
#220: Russ Bengtson
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal we welcome NBA/sneaker/hip-hop writer, editor, commentator and confidant Russ Bengtson to the Upper West Side! Russ talks growing up in Long Island, his early interest in journalism, being a Chicago Bulls fan in New York, attending the University of Delaware, his classmate and fellow journalist Jeff Pearlman, and his first job out of college working ...
1hr 52m Nov 27, 2018
1hr 52m
#219: Kenny Beats
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome arguably the producer of the year Kenny Beats to the Upper West Side! Kenny talks growing up in Connecticut always the tallest kid in his class, taking breakdancing classes, noodling on the guitar, the moment his mind awakened to music production, and the days he'd spend in a beat-making program recreating Timbaland beats he'd heard in th...
1hr 28m Nov 20, 2018
1hr 28m
#218: Tru Life
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Tru Life to the Upper West Side for one of the realest, most harrowing, most compelling and inspiring conversations we've ever had. Tru details his tough early years in New York City's Lower East Side, how he decided school wasn't for him, how music led to recording sessions at Mark and Donnie Wahlberg's studio, connecting with Snoop Dogg...
1hr 43m Nov 12, 2018
1hr 43m
#217: Super Publicist Yvette Noel-Schure
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome super publicist (Beyonce, Destiny's Child, John Legend, Mariah Carey, Prince) and favorite daughter of Grenada, Yvette Noel-Schure, to the Upper West Side! Yvette discusses growing up in Birch Grove, Grenada, living with her grandparents when her mother was sent to the United States for medical treatment, doing the extensive shopping her ...
1hr 57m Nov 05, 2018
1hr 57m
#216: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Mid90s
For Episode 8 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles and Sheek went to an NYC preview screening of Jonah Hill's directorial debut mid90s, sat down afterwards and broke down the film. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think!
59m Oct 31, 2018
59m
#215: The Return of A-Trak
This week on A Waste of ItsTheReal, we welcome DJ, producer, Fool's Gold co-founder, travel professional, and our friend A-Trak back to the Upper West Side! We talk the 2nd Annual Goldie Awards (A-Trak's DJ & beat battle, happening Nov. 8th in Brooklyn - get your tickets at goldieawards.com), working with his brother Dave-1 from Chromeo, playing on the same Maxim bill as the Jackass guys (minus...
1hr 44m Oct 29, 2018
1hr 44m
#214: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Jurassic Park
For Episode 7 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles, Sheek and Jadakiss were joined by a raucous audience at Highline Ballroom in NYC to watch and break down the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think!
1hr 1m Oct 24, 2018
1hr 1m
#213: ESPN's David Jacoby
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the cohost of ESPN's Jalen & Jacoby, David Jacoby to the Upper West Side! Jacoby discusses how he went from cutting pizza slices in Amherst, Massachusetts to cutting lines at the Empire State Building to cutting corners at MTV's Spring Break. Jacoby talks about what he learned in business school, how he got more from selling soaps in Soho...
1hr 40m Oct 22, 2018
1hr 40m
#212: Jay Park
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Roc Nation singer/songwriter/rapper and son of Seattle, Washington, Jay Park to the Upper West Side! Jay speaks on growing up the son of travel agents in the Emerald City, running around town with his crew on a mission to make a career out of breakdancing, doing poorly in school and hiding his report cards from his parents, and with his b...
1hr 12m Oct 16, 2018
1hr 12m
#211: Freshalina
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we traveled to Atlanta to sit down with the blogger's blogger, the influencer's influencer, the internet's favorite voice, and the first website owner to get kicked out of VIP by the celebrity of the hour, the founder of Crunk & Disorderly, Freshalina! Fresh discusses growing up in a small town outside Jacksonville, listening to "Up North" rap via h...
1hr 24m Oct 08, 2018
1hr 24m
#210: Jack Harlow
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Louisville, Kentucky native, Atlanta, Georgia resident, Mean Streets fixture and future of Generation Now, Jack Harlow to the Upper West Side! In addition to discussing his uncanny resemblance to ItsTheReal, we talk about committing to music in middle school, knowing that he wasn't college material in high school, bodying his Sway freesty...
1hr 29m Oct 01, 2018
1hr 29m
Keeping this Pirate Ship Afloat
Wherever in the world you are, you can help support your boys ItsTheReal by working to sell out the 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies show at Highline Ballroom in NYC next Wednesday. Head to ItsTheReal.com and help keep this pirate ship moving!
10m Sep 27, 2018
10m
#209: Photographer Cam Kirk
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Atlanta-based photographer/director/marketer/visionary Cam Kirk to the Upper West Side! Cam talks growing up in Maryland, how his divorced parents parented differently, how seriously he took religion in eighth grade, how quiet he was in high school, how he expected to attend a PWI but ultimately found himself at Morehouse, his beginnings ...
1hr 42m Sep 24, 2018
1hr 42m
#208: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review The Last Dragon (feat. Styles P, Sheek Louch and Jadakiss)
For Episode 6 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles, Sheek and Jadakiss watched a very bootlegged version of the 1985 martial arts film The Last Dragon. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think! And don't forget to go to ItsTheReal.com and get your tickets to see 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies LIVE Oct....
1hr 5m Sep 19, 2018
1hr 5m
#207: Ari Lennox
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Dreamville's own, Chevy Chase native, the talented, the funny, the soulful singer Ari Lennox to the Upper West Side! Ari talks growing up in the DMV area, skipping class to visit museums, how she worked on her vocal training, attending five high schools in four years, working at Old Navy, Pizza Hut and movie theaters, why she chose not to...
1hr 27m Sep 17, 2018
1hr 27m
#206: Jay Worthy
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome one-half of LNDN DRGZ, one-third of G-Worthy and one of one, the West Coast's own Jay Worthy to the Upper West Side! As certified as they come, we talk with Jay about LNDN DRGZ's super-dope album Active, why he hated the idea of being a rapper, his days of selling hair out of his trunk with Freeway Ricky Ross, how he became the guy that V...
1hr 19m Sep 13, 2018
1hr 19m
#205: Remembering Mac Miller
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we pay tribute to our friend Malcolm McCormick AKA Mac Miller, who tragically passed away last week at the far-far-far too young age of 26. Mac was a beautiful human being whose art, whose kindness and whose fine nature brought light and love to this world. We were lucky enough to be friends with Mac for most of our career and each of our collaborat...
1hr 18m Sep 10, 2018
1hr 18m
#204: Co-Founder of The FADER Rob Stone
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Founder and Co-CEO of Cornerstone and Co-Founder of The FADER Rob Stone to the Upper West Side! Rob talks growing up on Long Island, spending his summers loading and unloading trucks with his father in East New York, attending University of Albany, throwing parties, getting diagnosed with cancer at 19, leaving school, getting into fightin...
2hr 31m Sep 04, 2018
2hr 31m
#203: Lil Duval
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome comedian, rapper, singer, actor, internet expert and all-around amazing personality Lil Duval to the Upper West Side! Duval talks growing up in hardscrabble Jacksonville, Florida, driving at age 13, selling crack around town, dancing in high school talent shows, and knowing that he'd be an entertainer outside the city lines. We discuss hi...
1hr 25m Aug 27, 2018
1hr 25m
#202: Def Jam A&R AE
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Def Jam A&R, Tyga's consigliere and the Bay Area's native son AE to the Upper West Side! One of the best personalities and most genuine young souls in the music business, AE discusses growing up fast in North Oakland and going to school in East Oakland, sharing a room with his sister, playing basketball with bigger aspirations, skating th...
1hr 49m Aug 20, 2018
1hr 49m
#201: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review You've Got Mail (feat. Styles P and Sheek Louch of The LOX)
For Episode 5 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles and Sheek hit HBO to check out the 1998 romantic comedy You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and co-starring Dave Chappelle and Steve Zahn. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this - listen and let us know what you think! And don't forget to go to ItsTheReal.com and get your tickets to see 2...
1hr 13m Aug 15, 2018
1hr 13m
#200: ItsTheReal
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we mark the 200th episode of our podcast by telling our story. Each week for over three years, we've conversed with artists, producers, writers, executives, comedians, actors, on-air personalities and dope humans, diving into their ups, their downs, their successes and their vulnerable moments, ultimately celebrating each guest's incredible journey....
1hr 47m Aug 13, 2018
1hr 47m
#199: Joe Freshgoods
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Chicago's own clothing designer and entreprenuer Joe Freshgoods to the Upper West Side! Joe discusses his start on Chicago's West Side, ironing images onto t-shirts and selling them in high school, getting fired from Niketown, dropping out of college, working at Leaders 1354 while selling his own t-shirts in the style of a drug dealer, re...
1hr 21m Aug 06, 2018
1hr 21m
#198: Jemele Hill
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome ESPN personality, writer for The Undefeated, proud Michiganite and UNO champion Jemele Hill to the Upper West Side! Jemele discusses her upbringing in Detroit, falling in love with baseball and sports writing at a young age, the perks of interning at the Detroit Free Press as a high schooler, the pull of both Michigan State University and...
1hr 44m Jul 30, 2018
1hr 44m
#197: Action Bronson
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we traveled down to Brooklyn for a visit with the one and only Action Bronson! In this sidesplittingly funny episode, we sat down with Bam Bam Baklava over bagels to talk Flushing, Queens, why he's a fan of the New York Yankees, how he thinks his infamous Funk Flex freestyle went, how he injured his knee running from Germans, making plans for chicke...
1hr 42m Jul 23, 2018
1hr 42m
#196 Mouse Jones (Part 2)
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, the second of our two-part episode with BET host, digital media personality, and all-around defender of the culture Mouse Jones! Mouse, a high school dropout from Long Island with dashed dreams and a history in the streets, who found discipline and teamwork in the Navy, stayed down in Virginia after an honorable discharge, cutting hair, but also selling...
1hr 43m Jul 18, 2018
1hr 43m
#196: Mouse Jones (Part 1)
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome BET host, digital media personality, and all-around defender of the culture Mouse Jones to the Upper West Side! In Part 1 of this 2-episode podcast, Mouse discusses his upbringing on Long Island, how his step father became more indispensable than his own blood relatives, his work and opinions as a sweeper boy at the local barber shop, how he ...
1hr 57m Jul 16, 2018
1hr 57m
#195: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Trading Places (feat. Styles, Sheek and Jadakiss of The LOX)
For Episode 4 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles, Sheek and special guest Jadakiss hit Netflix to check out the 1983 comedy Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this. Listen and let us know what you think!
1hr 7m Jul 09, 2018
1hr 7m
#194: Capitol Music Group SVP of Brand Partnerships Brian Nolan
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal we welcome Capitol Music Group's SVP of Brand Partnerships, Brian Nolan, to the Upper West Side to discuss his time and work with J. Cole, Migos, Three6Mafia, ESPN and his own division at Capitol, seventeenfifty! A Silver Spring, MD native, Brian talks growing up a hip-hop fan in the Washington, DC suburbs, the lessons he learned caddying for the lik...
1hr 54m Jul 02, 2018
1hr 54m
#193: King Combs
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Bad Boy/Epic recording artist King Combs, to the Upper West Side! The son of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and Kim Porter, Christian AKA King Combs, discusses growing up the son of hip-hop royalty, moving from the East Coast to the West Coast, with a couple stops in Columbus, Georgia, his memories of hanging out in Central Park and getting McDo...
58m Jun 25, 2018
58m
#192: 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review Coco (feat. Styles and Sheek of The LOX)
For Episode 3 of 2 Jews and 2 Black Dudes Review the Movies, Eric, Jeff, Styles and Sheek hit Netflix to check out the celebrated Disney/Pixar computer animated film Coco. There's never been a movie review show as fun as this. Listen and let us know what you think! AND JUST KNOW: SPOILERS ARE UNAVOIDABLE IF YOU PRESS PLAY.
1hr 4m Jun 20, 2018
1hr 4m
#191: Tierra Whack
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the amazingly talented rapper/singer/filmmaker/storyteller Tierra Whack to the Upper West Side! Tierra, in her first extended interview, go into depth on growing up in Philadelphia with her mother and two younger siblings, auditioning to get into an arts high school an hour away, her profecientcy for singing and visual arts, how much her ...
1hr 21m Jun 18, 2018
1hr 21m
#190: Director Justin Fleischer
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome back to the East Coast, director, creative director and muffin god Justin Fleischer to the Upper West Side! Justin, who over the past few years has worked alongside Logic as a documentary filmmaker and music video director has recently stepped up to oversee the development of Logic's artists under his Elysium imprint. We discuss Justin's ...
1hr 58m Jun 12, 2018
1hr 58m
#189: Taylor Rooks
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome sports anchor and reporter and host of the 'TimeOut with Taylor Rooks' podcast, Gwinnett County's own, Taylor Rooks! Taylor discusses growing up in Georgia a driven student, a caring sister, and a poor parallel parker, why she chose to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her aspirations to be Barbara Walters meets Oprah, wh...
1hr 24m Jun 04, 2018
1hr 24m
#188: Dave
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome British rapper Dave to the Upper West Side! Dave, AKA Santan Dave, talks about his breakout hit Wanna Know, how Drake reached out to appear on the remix, how OVO did right by him, and what that one song meant in terms of radio, festivals and recognition. We discuss Dave's youth in South London, not having much of a relationship with his t...
1hr 45m May 28, 2018
1hr 45m
#187: Swizz Beatz
Today on a special bonus episode celebrating the 3-Year Anniversary of A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome super-producer, rapper, professor, art collector and party starter Swizz Beatz to the Upper West Side! We talk Ruff Ryders, DMX, The Lox, Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella, Michael lJackson, Eve, T.I., his epic battle with Just Blaze, Cassidy vs. Freeway, Young Won, Metallica, Atlanta, the South ...
1hr 35m May 23, 2018
1hr 35m
#186: Ella Mai
Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome singer Ella Mai, whose song Boo'd Up has been called the song of the summer, to the Upper West Side! Ella talks growing up in South London, moving across the pond to New York City in eighth grade, going to high school in Queens, and because she got unwanted attention from her English accent, she focused on playing soccer and shied away from h...
1hr 5m May 21, 2018
1hr 5m