This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome two young artists who are about to hit it big: Bibi Bourelly (signed to Def Jam via Berlin, Germany) and Tate Kobang (signed to 300 Entertainment via Baltimore, Maryland)! Bibi sat down with us to discuss getting kicked out of high school, buying a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, using Twitter to make friends, selling Bitch Better Have My Money to Rihanna, meeting Kanye West, becoming great buddies with Skrillex, what writer's camps are really like, writing with Usher, her new project Free The Real, and so much more! Tate stopped by to talk about writing rhymes for his uncle who rapped, the dance crew he grew up in, working with Nelly, working with Swizz Beatz, wanting to work with Shania Twain, FaceTiming with Lyor Cohen and DJ Khaled, and much more!

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our friend Brendan Frederick, Director of Content at Genius.com to the Upper West Side! Brendan talks about growing up in a tiny town in New Hampshire, going to middle school with Statik Selektah, playing in his high school band called "Arkanoid," and taking creative writing courses at Carnegie Mellon. He discusses how he went from intern to Editor in Chief at Mass Appeal, how he established XXL as a leader in online hip-hop blogging, his experiences as EIC of Scratch Magazine, his role in building Complex.com into a monster website and media network, and how and why he took the job at Genius. All that, plus stories from working with all your favorite hip-hop media personalities!

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And here's the description: This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the great singer/songwriter Mike Posner, who speaks on his incredible journey from playing drums in Detroit to making beats in his dorm room at Duke to selling millions of records out the gate to being shelved and losing his way to writing smashes for Bieber and Maroon 5 to finding himself, finding honesty, and finding a brand new sound that has catapulted him back to the top of the charts with his new project At Night, Alone. All that, plus stories on Kanye, Big Sean, Pharrell, and so much more!

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our friend and brilliant writer Mary H.K. Choi to the Upper West Side! In this hilarious episode, we talk about her experiences with Rihanna, moving from Hong Kong to Texas at age 14, her time at Mass Appeal and XXL and Missbehave and the NYTimes, how emojis deepened her relationship with her parents, interviewing Khloe Kardashian, the time she visited 50 Cent's mansion, her awesome podcast "Hey, Cool Job!" and so much more!

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our favorite rapper right now, Oakland's own, Kamaiyah! Following the success her amazing mixtape A Good Night in the Ghetto, as well as her tour de force at SXSW, we sit down with Kamiyah to talk a childhood of foster homes and switching schools, her time in dance crews, how she avoided becoming boy-band listening skaters like her brothers, meeting Puffy in the studio and watching his #MakingTheBandFace, co-signs from the Bay, from Los Angeles, and most recently from a certain rapper from Toronto who's running the game! And as a bonus this week, we got our friend Fafu to share some stories from his time working with the late, great Prince. This episode is sponsored by Seeso. Comedy’s experiencing a serious renaissance right now, and Seeso is a comedy streaming service tailor-made for comedy-lovers and nerds, with thousands of hours of the best comedy, 24/7/365. Go to http://Seeso.com and start watching all the comedy you can stream for free.

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our fellow podcaster Adam22 from the Downtown Los Angeles-based No Jumper podcast. We talk how he went from riding BMX bikes and doing graffiti in a tiny New Hampshire town to committing credit card scams and trafficking drugs throughout the Northeast, and how he then transformed himself into a legitimate business-owner with an enormous platform for internet hip-hop. All that, plus discussions about his father's Presidential pardon, Desiigner, online poker, Boston's hardcore scene, living in a commune, and so much more!This episode is sponsored by Seeso. Comedy’s experiencing a serious renaissance right now, and Seeso is a comedy streaming service tailor-made for comedy-lovers and nerds, with thousands of hours of the best comedy, 24/7/365. Go to http://Seeso.com and start watching all the comedy you can stream for free.

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our friend and the host of Tidal's stand-up comedy series No Small Talk, Cipha Sounds! Ciph talked working with Jay Z, working with Pharrell, working with Funkmaster Flex, and why he never works with Fat Joe. He shared stories about being 19 years old touring the country with Lil Kim, Ma$e, The LOX, Cam'ron and more. We discussed his time at Hot 97, the incredible DJ lineup at his wedding, and what Angie Martinez meant to his career. All that, plus breaking Rihanna's first record, breaking Rick Ross' first record, starting Juan Epstein - the first and longest-running Hip-Hop podcast with Peter Rosenberg - and so much more!

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome MMG's own Rockie Fresh to the Upper West Side! Rockie discusses working with Rick Ross, how Wale has taken charge of Self Made 4, and breaks news about his own collaboration album with Hit-Boy! A Chicago native, Rockie talks R. Kelly singing at his graduation, what Michael Jordan means to a 24-year old, and how exactly you can root for the White Sox AND the Cubs. All that, plus the recording deal he turned down from Diddy, why he's looking forward to his new music video with Chris Brown, and what's more desirable: coughing or sneezing.This episode is sponsored by Seeso. Comedy’s experiencing a serious renaissance right now, and Seeso is a comedy streaming service tailor-made for comedy-lovers and nerds, with thousands of hours of the best comedy, 24/7/365. Go to http://Seeso.com and start watching all the comedy you can stream for free.

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we bring back our friends and must-follow Twitterers @BosNaud and @BigWos, for a laugh-out-loud episode about NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, hate on the internet, experience showers, why Derek Fisher can't find a freaky lawyer to date, the ethics of listening to R. Kelly's music, how to ruin Spike Lee's big party, and much, much more! And after you check this episode out, make sure to listen back to Naud and Wos' legendary debut on the the Open Mic Night episode of A Waste of Time!

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcomed stand-up comedian, Guy Code personality, and host of the In The Conversation podcast, Damien Lemon! We talked about living across the hall from DJ Drama in college, watching the Young Buck fight at the Vibe Awards, and doing stand-up gigs with Hannibal Buress. Damien shared stories about growing up in Ossining, NY, going to Freaknik while at Clark Atlanta University, being laid off at Vibe Magazine, and how he built a comedy career in New York City. Enjoy!

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