ItsTheReal Classic: Tru Life

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we revisit our November 2018 interview with Lower East Side rapper Tru Life, 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, and how Ving Rhames looked out strictly because he believed in Tru Life's talents. We discuss the DVD era and how the drama undermined an artist's talents, how Sickamore brought out the best in Tru's abilities, how Green Lantern called up Jay-Z and convinced him to not fly out of town and instead take a meeting with Tru Life, how Jay refused to let Tru leave the office until he signed a deal with Roc La Familia, and how Cipha Sounds started off as Tru's A&R, but became as close as blood brothers. Tru gets into his time away, the weight of facing a life sentence, figuring out whether loyalty and codes really meant anything, the tears he shed over not seeing his kids grow up, why he dedicated himself to his studies, and what ultimately got him through his eight years behind bars. We get into the realities of going from the system to freedom, how he wasn't ready for the trappings of the music industry upon his release, how he's grown over the past two years, moving to the suburbs, and what he's bringing to the table with his new music. All that, plus stories about Jay, Beyonce, TI, Future, Bobby Shmurda, Tory Lanez, Jim Jones, the inmates who broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility while he was there, and so much more!

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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. It is another Sunday,
0:05.0	and you know what that means. I do. It means that I can't go outside. Yeah, that's every Sunday.
0:12.1	Every Sunday I can't go outside. You have to stay inside. Yeah. Jeff. Don't ask me what I have to do on Monday.
0:16.4	What we've been doing for the last month are new daily episodes where we call three people every day.
0:22.1	We call it Quarantine Radio.
0:23.2	Yes. The original.
0:24.2	The original, original, original quarantine radio.
0:27.7	And every Sunday, we've put out classic episodes of a waste of time with It's the Real.
0:32.7	That is our hour and a half sit down following the journey of someone's life and really get into the crux
0:39.2	of who they are and today today we're talking to well we already talked to yeah true life yes true
0:45.3	life the lower east side rapper who has lived man quite a life uh not only in the music business
0:53.8	but uh seeing what uh mixing up in the streets can
0:58.6	sort of turn into he spent a lot of time behind bars up at Clinton Correctional
1:03.7	Facility we talk about that whole thing and it's interesting now in this day
1:08.4	and age when people are like oh I'm inside'm inside. I'm here in my my apartment,
1:14.2	my house. I'm stuck indoors. It feels like jail. Not like jail. It's not like jail. I mean,
1:20.5	like this is like a very real story. Yeah. Um, you know, true life. I don't know if true life is
1:27.1	ever given as much of an in-depth
1:29.5	interview. No, it hasn't because I went to this Maineo event downtown. Yeah. And True Life's team was like,
1:34.9	thank you so much for letting him share that, getting into these stories, getting into who he really
1:41.4	is because he's a very complex guy. He's lived a very complex life.
1:45.6	And doing time behind bars is not like what we're doing right now.
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