#310: Calmatic

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, it was only right to celebrate episode 310 by getting on the phone with Los Angeles' own, the Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-holding director and storyteller Calmatic! Cal, a new father, talks about where his heart, soul and being are at after the last two weeks, where his mind's been since Nipsey Hussle's tragic passing last year, and what kind of hope he has for his son's generation in America. Cal takes us through growing up in Inglewood, his love for the West Coast, his obsession with baseball and his dreams of playing college ball, how music started speaking to him and he started speaking through music, why the blogs weren't his community of choice, how he broke the news to his parents that finishing college wasn't going to be the move, how he hustled his art and design career while holding down jobs such as a park ranger, how a chance encounter with Spike Jonze and seeing how he operated inspired a new path in life, the crazy story of how he got his first DSLR camera, how he leveled up his productions, what directing a Vic Mensa music video meant for his budget, his legacy-building work as part of OverDoz., how he first met Chris Rock, the entire experience directing Lil Nas X's Old Town Road video, what winning a Grammy means, understanding what he's brought to the table for the last decade as an LA artist, what the future holds, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. You know, this has been another heavy week, on some levels, another productive
0:07.3	week. But I think the most important thing is that when people say that this has been a week
0:14.8	unlike any other that they can remember over the course of their lives, it's because we keep
0:20.3	putting the pressure on. I think the most
0:22.2	important thing to do is to keep moving forward and keep doing this. It's not that we've done
0:27.6	one week and that's good enough. It's not that we've done two weeks and it's good enough. It's
0:32.2	constant pressure on the system to make changes and to get the people out who are not going to make changes.
0:38.9	Yeah, I mean, like when you say that this was another difficult week, I feel like it's been a very
0:43.0	productive week.
0:44.0	Like, I feel encouraged by it.
0:45.9	Agreed.
0:46.7	That's in the end.
0:47.7	But I think, like, to go through it, it's heavy.
0:50.5	It's not easy to hear the helicopters.
0:52.1	It's not easy to see the videos of people, you know,
0:54.9	getting brutally assaulted by police officers. Yeah, but that was at the top of the week. By the end of the
1:00.0	week, it's like it feels like all the cops have smartly backed off, not because they wanted to,
1:04.9	because I think that a lot of cops are racist and shitty and use their power in abusive ways.
1:13.5	But I think that the mayors have pulled the cops off and said, like, you cannot do whatever
1:21.1	you were doing.
1:22.1	You know, we haven't seen the same sort of Buffalo tactics, the same sort of, you know, New York, you know, Kettling and all that shit.
1:30.2	Okay.
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