T.K. Kirkland is a stand-up comedian who has been in the game for a long time. He has worked with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and has a very interesting story about how he got his start in the business. He also has a new show coming up in Miami on April 26th where he will be joined by Andrew Wilson and more! Stay tuned to the show and don t miss it! If you don t already have tickets to the live show, make sure to grab them right away! Thanks to our sponsor, FreshmanCastleClub.tv for supporting the show. The Freshman Podcast is a production of Native Creative Podcasts. New Artist/Song influenced by Nipsey Hussle: Join Freshman Castle Club on FB Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date on all things Native Creative. . . . Produced and Edited by Native Creative and Native Creative . , , , and . , is a proud member of the Freshman Creative Podcast. , produced and produced by the Native Creative Crew. We are proud to present "Freshman Podcast" and "Native Creative Podcast." is a program produced and edited by Freshman Collaborative. in partnership with Native Creative, a proud supporter of the show "Freshmen Podcast" and "New Artist/Producer/Song is , a proud sponsor of Freshman Collective. and is also a supporter of FreshmenCastle Club Club. is located in Miami, FL. ! joins us on the show on the 26th April 26/27th and 29th April 6th, 2019. & 29th, and 30th April, 2019, on the 27th, 2020, on the 28th, in Miami Florida, in the Miami, Florida on the 30th, in the South Coast of South Florida, Florida, and in South Carolina, Florida. on May 1st, 2019 on the 7th, April 13, 2020 on the 15th, July 6, 2020 in the 6th and July, and July, 2019 in the Bronx, on June 6, 2019 and in Los Angeles, , July 7, 2020 in New York, New York City, July, and July 7th in San in Boston, 2019 in Chicago,
00:04:58.000It kicks off April 12th, 13th, and 14th in Philadelphia, and I just want everybody to come through and see what all the fuss is about, about being a stand-up comedian in this game.
00:05:23.000So, TK, we know who you are, but the audience might not.
00:05:25.000Can you introduce yourself real quick to the people?
00:05:27.000Yes, my name is TK Kirkland, better known as T to the motherfucking K. Started out with one of the most legendary stand-up groups in the world.
00:06:18.000Yeah, if you look at one of his albums, I wrote a skit for him, and it was called Pussyologist.
00:06:24.000Two levels higher than the gynecologist.
00:06:26.000So he still talks to me about that to this day.
00:06:28.000So, you know, I did my thing in the music industry and also did my thing in stand-up comedy, and it's like I'm being reborn in a sense because...
00:06:36.000You, Vlad, and all you young kids who have started the podcast game.
00:06:42.000Because like I said, I've been around a long time.
00:06:44.000So all we had was David Letterman, Arsenio Hall.
00:12:10.000I'm sitting in the airport and I'm watching the women walk by with the fake booties, eyelashes.
00:12:16.000Now, most women think you're checking them out because they think they're fine.
00:12:21.000When I look at a woman that got the fake butt and eyelashes, I'm looking at you like an antique model car because it's starting to play out.
00:12:30.000You're starting to look like an old Lamborghini.
00:12:33.000You're starting to look like an old Rose Voice.
00:12:35.000Like, when you first saw them, They were amazing, right?
00:12:39.000But when you see them now, and the misconception in the world today is that women think that men like that.
00:12:46.000You'll talk to a girl, you motherfuckers like them fake asses and fake titties, but they don't know because nobody's projecting onto the universe that, no, we really like natural women.
00:12:58.000And as you guys get older, the thing that's so important is it's not about the bodies no more, right?
00:13:03.000It's the character of the woman, character of the man, because the surface of a woman could be drop-dead gorgeous, but are you prepared for life?
00:15:36.000And I go in there being irresponsible, you know?
00:15:40.000And I just want men to know who go out there and do the situations to please start really being considered who will be the mother of your child.
00:16:02.000I do want to say, so real quick, because I was going to ask you about, you've been in the game for 40 years, but prior to that, where'd you grow up?
00:19:03.000You saw the DAs and the mayors coming down on crime.
00:19:09.000But then as you get older and you get knowledge, and you see that it's all BS, right?
00:19:15.000Because even though they're fighting crime, the government is saying people are bringing the drugs in.
00:19:19.000So they try to confuse you and try to make you think they're doing the right thing, but they're the ones that are bringing the drugs in the game.
00:19:26.000The thing that people have to understand, I talk about this in my stand-up, is that the government pimps the state, the state pimps the city, the city pimps the people.
00:19:37.000And who is making decisions to better your life?
00:19:41.000And they don't know what they're doing.
00:19:42.000I mean, we live in a world now that in order to make it if you're homeless, you have to really go out of the country to become a Mexican or a migrant to come back in as a migrant through the border in order to get a decent living,
00:19:58.000to get a place to live, to get shelter, because they're giving these people so much money.
00:20:03.000Oh, because they're giving them free housing.
00:24:16.000The only people that met him in the 90s call him by that.
00:24:20.000Yeah, and I remember me and Puff being at the party.
00:24:23.000This is when Def Jam was doing their thing, and for all the young people to know, tell you, me and Puff said, T, I want you to host my Bad Boy of Comedy thing that was going to come out on HBO. What year is this?
00:26:10.000And Suge used to be my bodyguard on tour with NWA, me and the D.O.C. So I seen Suge grow from a bodyguard to one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
00:27:43.000And the thing that I would love about young men, if I had to look back on Tupac, understanding my life now, Tupac wasn't about that thug life.
00:27:55.000Tupac was one of the nicest kids you could ever imagine.
00:27:58.000I don't know if they know, he was a background dancer to Digital Underground.
00:31:51.000If Fonzie come out and he's on the interview with you guys but he got the umbrella and he's talking and he's telling you believe him because he knows everything that went down.
00:34:33.000Because the men I hear today, having had OGs like me, To give them game.
00:34:39.000They're thinking every woman is horrible.
00:34:42.000I'm not saying you treat every woman good, but you have enough wisdom on this planet to know which woman has the character of what you want.
00:34:52.000You can't do that to everybody, right?
00:34:53.000But if you know character, you're like, oh, I can rock with her.
00:35:00.000And that's what we have to start putting out in the universe instead of this nonsense and this confusion to see that men was putting pills in a woman's drink.
00:35:10.000I'm like, what, your vocabulary ain't cold?
00:35:13.000There's a thing called sapiosexual, right?
00:35:15.000That you seduce a woman by her mind because of conversation.
00:35:20.000You don't have to put stuff in women's drinks to get them to do what you want to do.
00:36:27.000You would get that masculine energy to protect and provide and give that chivalry.
00:36:32.000But I would say in today's day and age, with the way so many women are, how entitled they are, how masculine they are, etc., a lot of guys look at it like, she acts like a dude.
00:36:43.000So I see your perspective, but I also see the modern perspective, and I think it's because the gender lines are so blurred now that guys don't know that they need to be a man all the time, even if the chick is masculine.
00:36:53.000But that's why I was saying to you, right?
00:36:55.000I'm going to say something to you because you're my friend now.
00:36:57.000I want you to listen to comprehend, not listen to reply.
00:39:10.000Obviously, it's all over the news, etc.
00:39:14.000The one thing that's really, and I want to get your take on this, that's really interesting to me is, like, no one has come out to his defense in the industry.
00:40:24.000And you let the chips fall as they may.
00:40:26.000And then once it's all over, you go through life and face your issues head on like a man.
00:40:33.000And the things that you've done, you accept it, and you go about your business, and then you change.
00:40:38.000So if Puffy beats this thing, move on with your life, stay focused as a man, raise your children, and we live in a world that after three weeks, a month, a year,
00:44:08.000I beat that case when I took a plea deal because I had another felony in California.
00:44:16.000And what they had in New York was a thing called predicate felon.
00:44:19.000And predicate felon is no matter where you are in the world, you catch another case within a year and it's a felony where you get caught at that's mandatory four to six.
00:44:28.000But I hired some attorneys out of Long Island named Tony Matteo and Frank Capitolo, two Italian attorneys out of Long Island, to help me get my plea deal taken off the table.
00:44:45.000During that time, I'm in Rikers Island because I took my deal off the table.
00:44:49.000The judge reprimanded me, sent me to Rikers Island.
00:49:56.000See, when you got a mom that loves you, and they see you grow to become something, and they talk to their people when they go get their manicure and pedicure, when they go to church.
00:57:56.000The only reason, because I've looked at theories and all the other stuff, in Nicole Simpson's hands, right, she had African-American hair fibers on her nails.
00:58:13.000But my thing is, is that, um, and the way that, if you look at the carnage, if you look at the crime scene photos and everything, there's no way one man would have been able to take her on and the other guy that was martial arts trained.
01:02:13.000But that's why I would say take care of your health, eat good, have everything in order, your insurance policies, your trust, all that kind of stuff.
01:02:24.000But the main thing is, if God didn't make it, don't take it.
01:02:27.000Meaning, make sure you eat good and don't become a pre-diabetic by eating all these different sandwich meats and all these different types of stuff to give you high blood pressure.
01:02:36.000Because you've got to think about the long term of life.
01:05:57.000He says, TK, I want you to open up for I'll Be Sure, Tina Marie, Keith Sweat.
01:06:02.000It was a big concert in LA. Great concert.
01:06:05.000And I'm standing next to Bobby Brown and the DJ puts in the cassette.
01:06:09.000For all you Gen Zers out there that don't know what a cassette is, it's a tape like this back in the day.
01:06:14.000And I saw these kids lose their mind and I wanted to know who that was because I didn't know.
01:06:18.000And Bobby Brown pointed them out to me.
01:06:21.000And I walked up to this brother and I told him I was T to the motherfucking K. And he said, yo, I'm easy motherfucking E. And I told him who I was.
01:06:30.000He said, yo, I like what you're doing.
01:08:06.000Because, you know, one thing I noticed when I was in L.A., and it's one of the big reasons why I don't like going there, is that gang culture is so prevalent there.
01:08:16.000If you're a nigga and you're in LA and you don't align yourself with one side for protection to some degree, you're going to be getting robbed.
01:13:06.000And the reason why it's not up there yet, because the big boys who does my routing are putting together the Netflix comedy special thing in Los Angeles, California.
01:14:10.000Yeah, the thing I love about our show, I could tell it was a mature show.
01:14:13.000I wasn't saying nothing ignorant and nothing crazy.
01:14:16.000I just want people to understand you can come on these shows And be a man or be a lady without being ignorant or saying things just to get people to...
01:16:07.000And I tell people, and I had this on my program on my Instagram too long ago, I think most people are programmed to think they're depressed.
01:16:22.000I think people say it, and you hear people say the press is real, but I truly believe that if your ass got up and worked out every day, if you stayed constantly busy every day, that you would not have time to think about the press.
01:16:35.000But if you've been watching TV in the majority of your life, if you're watching this phone...
01:17:31.000What is, and man, sometimes I wish I could go back to the 90s and live in the 90s as an adult and kind of see what life was like.
01:17:38.000What is the biggest contrast difference between back then being an adult and going through life versus today?
01:17:47.000Back then, you wanted to talk to somebody, you had beeper or go on a pay phone versus now you're just using a phone and text messaging or whatever.
01:19:47.000Do you notice a big difference when you talk to someone that was born in maybe, let's say, the year 2000 versus talking to someone that was born in the year 1980?
01:19:56.000Now, when you're explaining the difference, what do you mean?
01:19:57.000Like, for example, someone that was born in 2000, and I've noticed this when we're talking with younger people, because I was like the last generation, right?
01:20:15.000But when I talk to people born in 2000, like these 20-year-olds, et cetera, people born after that, I'm like, wow, you have a real issue with being able to communicate effectively and be able to convey yourself in a way that I'm able to understand you.
01:20:35.000And the goal of delivering the message is to make sure that you take the time to make sure that the person who's listening truly understands what you're saying so you can truly comprehend.
01:20:47.000And if you can't deliver what you're trying to say to me, there's no way I'm going to understand what you're talking about.
01:21:10.00030-something years old, they're almost getting their life together, but they're still out here trying to do their thing.
01:21:17.00040-year-old women, depending on what their journeys were, they probably had baby-daddy drama, still trying to get their life together, got their lives together, because they did make mistakes having babies, and they're still trying to get it, but they still have the early 30s But then there's a gift and a curse because if a girl don't take care of herself and she looks old as she gets 50,
01:21:39.000you don't really want to rock her because you made money, you're successful.
01:21:43.000You want a woman that took care of herself, but most women won't take care of themselves.
01:21:47.000So then you go a little younger because this girl looks attractive.