#140: Coodie And Chike

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the acclaimed filmmakers Coodie and Chike to the Upper West Side! We talk with the duo about their upbringings in Chicago and New Orleans respectively, how their jobs as a touring comic and graphics editor led them to meet in NYC, and the process behind the scenes of their groundbreaking music video for Kanye West, Through the Wire. We discuss expectations vs. reality in Hollywood and New York, executives feeding them less-than-stellar feature scripts, and how they finally got a documentary that was close to their heart, Benji, greenlit for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Starting Creative Control out of Dame Dash's apartment, Erykah Badu accusing them of bootlegging her album, Jay Electronica suggesting they shoot Erykah's video for Window Seat, collaborating with Dave Chappelle, new work on Muhammad Ali and Ernie Barnes, and the joy the internet showed when Coodie reconnected with Kanye during BET Awards weekend, and much, much more!