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This guy right here, man. I'm going to
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tell you, man. It's nice. Tracy G, this
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man has been planting roots in the soil
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for a long time. We go way back, Tracy.
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You remember last time we had him on the
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show.
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Of course.
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Yeah, and he was breaking down the
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vernacular of women and and when they
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should and when they should not use
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profanity. And that just went man, I
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people I had women texting me
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and and and and tweeting me for months
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after that. I was almost mad at this
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dude like damn TK. I I didn't say it, he
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said it. You know, and then but we go
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way back, man. We was just talking
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recently to 80s, early 90s. We go that
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far back and I and and I remember the
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NWA days with Eazy-E. He used to play
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this song Easy with Game and Kanye, man.
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And um I'm in LA, man. I just I I would
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be remiss not to ask you anything you
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could tell us about your time with
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Eazy-E, man.
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All right, let me tell you, man.
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Oh, we got TK Kirkland here, MAN.
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TK KIRKLAND.
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THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK
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YOU.
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TO THE UNIVERSE. Sway's universe.
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Okay, I love to be involved.
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No, um one of the greatest things that
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happened I talk about it on stage now.
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And it all started um
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when I came out here I had met Bobby
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Brown. He was in New Edition.
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Um then I met a a gentleman Al Haymon.
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Al Haymon now is the manager promoter
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Floyd Mayweather.
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Biggest promoter in
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promoter and he used to do Budweiser
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Superfest back in the day, the concerts.
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So, he said, "TK, I'm going to put this
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concert together in Los Angeles. Bobby
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Brown just left New Edition. I'll put
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Tina Marie. And I'm going to put this
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new guy on. Um um um um he he whines a
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lot, but the women like him. Keith
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Sweat. Keith I'm going to put Keith
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Sweat on the show."
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We go do the concert at the LA Forum.
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And um in intermission the DJ is
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rocking. 20,000 people packed. The DJ is
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rocking. And um he plays his local rap
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groups' music.
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And
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the audience just lose their mind. I'm
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standing next to Bobby Brown.
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I'm like, "Yo, Bobby, who is that?" And
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Bobby happens to be looking in the
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audience. He said, "Yo, there go them
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brothers right there." So, I've always
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managed myself. I always put myself in
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the position you going to know I'm
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there. I walk off the stage. I come up
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to this young man and I said, "Yo, I'm T
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to the [ __ ] K."
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That [ __ ] said, "Easy [ __ ] E,
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what?" So, Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube
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came to see me perform at the Comedy
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Store. Uh-huh. They said, "Nigga, you
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fire. Let's go." And took me on my first
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tour straight out of [ __ ]
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Compton.
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That's how that happened?
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The [ __ ]
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Gangster.
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STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON.
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IT'S A CRAZY
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TOOK ME ON MY FIRST TOUR.
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NOW, you doing a show tonight with Mike
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Epps, right?
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Yeah, Mike Epps at the Chinese Man
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Theatre. Me and Mike Epps, um
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a few other young comedians, Dominique,
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um G Thang, it's going to be off the
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chain.
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It's going to be all right. I'm
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headlining, so it's cool.
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Did you say that again?
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I'm headlining.
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Damn.
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Yeah, just make sure we understand.
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cool.
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He went from opening to Easy to
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headlining a Mike Epps concert.
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And and and the interesting thing about
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that, when you mention N.W.A and Dr.
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Dre, they performing at the Super Bowl
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halftime show, man. For you, when you
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see that evolution of Dre
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Yes.
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you know, and Snoop is all, you know,
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Kendrick is all lineage of, you know,
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N.W.A.
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Yes, yes, yes. And we're all offsprings,
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right? We're all offsprings. And I can
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honestly say
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you know.
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Right, when I talk when I see comedians
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wearing the t-shirts, the baseball caps,
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they have no idea truly that came from
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me being with N.W.A. Cuz back then we
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had to wear the slacks and the shirts.
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This is from when they let us in the
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Improv.
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Uh-huh.
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It seemed cuz these young kids don't
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understand, we were never in the Improv.
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We had to have our own black comedy
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clubs. And then once we got popular,
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they let us in because um all black
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comedians made all the white comedy club
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owners multi-millionaires because the
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white comics wasn't bringing in those
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kind of numbers that African-American
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comedians was doing. So, a lot of comics
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don't understand with the baseball caps,
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the jeans that they wearing. I took that
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from NWA. And NWA um
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even their their blueprint reported the
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streets.
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Yep.
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Keeping it 100. I took that from Ice
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Cube, Dr. Dre when we was hanging in the
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studio. When we was on tour we used to
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sit around in the hotel room and I took
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that same idea in 1980 89, put it to my
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stand-up. And boom, the rest is history.
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The rest is history. I can't even
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imagine cuz I was
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watching something man. It was talking
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about the com- the history of the comedy
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store.
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Yes.
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Right. And then Joe Torry and Robin
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Robin Harris and
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what it was like at that time. Even
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getting into these mainstream comedy
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store. What was the change? What was the
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switch?
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The change was Def Jam.
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Def Comedy Jam.
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Def Comedy Jam changed the whole game.
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And you know and as a businessman when
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you see something pop, you know, as a
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owner you're like, "Oh, let me get these
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people in my club." So the owners only
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did what was right. Let me get these
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people in my club and start booking them
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to make money. So you have the D.L.
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Hughleys, you have the Somores, you have
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the T.K. Kirklands of back in the day
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working and everything else is history.
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So when you see the young comedians, 85
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South, you see the internet comedians
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doing well, right?
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These guys they I'm I'm so happy for
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them but they really I really wish
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everybody knew the history
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on how all this took off. Cuz it just
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ain't happened. It It was a path to all
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that. And it's just like how the
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comedians make so much money today. It's
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like um
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Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in
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basketball. They were some of the
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greatest players in the world but the
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guys on the bench make more money than
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Magic and Larry Bird combined together
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for the time they played.
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Ain't that something?
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Isn't that something?
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Wow. You heard that Tracy but I mean I
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know John Salley was talking about that
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cuz he said he lost all his NBA money
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cuz he was signed in the 80s. Right. You
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know, so he wasn't able to sustain that
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money. How has your transition been as a
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comedian into this digital age? Like
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when you talk about 85 South, you know,
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and you see a lot of Instagram comics
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who are making good money doing well for
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themselves. Now
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can can and this has nothing to do with
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85 South. We know they could hold a tear
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on stage. We've seen them improv hours
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and sell out concerts across the across
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the country.
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Yes.
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But not every Insta person that got
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famous on Instagram could hold a crowd
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on stage, right? So
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And what I and what I say to that, some
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got the the popularity
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but not the talent. So I'm hoping as
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time goes on
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their talent will match
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their
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popularity. Because it go easy it could
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go either way, right?
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Young comics like us back in the day, we
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had to get famous for people to know us.
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Well, today you instant instant famous.
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So now can you one day
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match the talent that you are supposed
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to have? Because two young comedians I
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feel could have been greater than what
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they were, but they got famous so fast.
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And that's um
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Chris Tucker and Jamie Fox.
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See, when they started
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Yeah, watch what I'm about to say. When
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they started stand-up comedy
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the Oscar award-winning Jamie what I'm
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about to tell you.
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Yeah.
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Jamie Fox blew up in 5 years of his
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stand-up.
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And comedy to me is based on pain and
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struggle and wisdom. There's no
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substitute for experience, Paul Mooney
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used to tell me. So even though those
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guys went on to be great great comedian,
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I mean actors
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stand-up comedians, they could have been
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much much much much better. So they left
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a lot of money on the table cuz they
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didn't put a lot of work. To me, this is
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my opinion. They didn't put a lot of
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work in the in the in in the stand-up
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world, but they were just so amazingly
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talented, they didn't need to. So,
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um they went a whole 'nother direction.
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Whereas, everybody has their only So
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many comedians now that really isn't
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enough comics for everybody in the in
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the country to go see. The last 6 years
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have been um some of the best for TK
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Kirkland because of shows like yourself,
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podcasts, all those things. See, you
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guys are my David Letterman's from back
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in the day. You guys are my Arsenio
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Hall. You You understand? Yeah, see cuz
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I couldn't get on them shows
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back in the day. See, so now that we
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have social media, I'm everywhere now,
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you know? So, now the world is starting
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to recognize um TK, but my talent it
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speaks for itself. I believe
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demonstration is better than
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conversation.
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Okay, TK Kirkland here, man. I was You
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know, I just kind of rattled me when you
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said Jamie Foxx, man. You know,
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Jesus, huh?
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I was like Jamie Foxx, [ __ ]
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like talented. Yeah, talented, though.
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Living Color, you know, Jamie's
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hilarious, man, but
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That And that's television. I'm talking
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about actually on the stand-up mic.
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I've seen him do stand-up, though.
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Yeah, but I'm not saying that he's not
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good. I'm saying he could have been
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greater.
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Okay, would you trade
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I don't know.
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Would you trade uh
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what he's accomplished in his career
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with the Oscars, the movies, the the the
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the TV series, the shows, music.
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Would you trade that if you was him?
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Like would you
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Yeah, see, here's the difference about
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me. You know me a long time. So, I came
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I come up as a hustler.
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Yeah.
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See, life to me is not material things
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and objects, right? Cuz in my in the
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world of street, I'm a Oscar award
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winner.
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Oh, [ __ ]
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I heard that. He got his Oscar in the
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hood.
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Yeah, see, I'm I'm a Oscar. I've always
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been rich and successful even back in
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the '90s, so it's not really about
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money, right? So, success to me is
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my children loving me. Success to me is
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breathing. Success to me is Success to
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me is um here talking to you. See, cuz I
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lost I lost my mother and father's all
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before I was four. That's how I lost my
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family. So my family is deceased, right?
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So to still be here and still be
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striving and still have the ambition, to
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still have this
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this drive
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to keep going is in my DNA. You know,
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I'm in my 60s. So you know, I'm not I'm
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not Yeah, I'M NOT
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DAMN, WHAT THE HELL? WHAT? THIS IS WHAT
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60s look like?
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Yeah, I'm in my 60s so I'm not
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It's like to still
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Shut up.
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The hell with the Oscar. Get him AN
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AKBAR. HE NEEDS AN AKBAR.
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IT'S TO STILL TO STILL have this drive.
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I got I got Man, you have no idea. Like
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I love life so much.
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That's so amazing to me that I could go
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to bed at 10:00 and be up at 3:00 and
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seem like I slept
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for 8, 9 hours. I just got to go and I
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just love it. So
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um to to do this and to know that I've
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done it consistently. See, go almost all
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the comedians in the industry call TK
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consistent.
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Yeah.
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See, I may not have got an Oscar.
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But man, I've been consistent for over
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37 years. Consistent. You feel me? And
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that means everything to me.
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Man, man, that's amazing, bro.
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That's amazing. What did you what you
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got a skin transplant
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You know I just take care of my You know
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what people always ask what I put on my
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skin. I tell people all the time it's
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the
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the thing that's been around since day
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one.
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Water.
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Vaseline.
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Vaseline?
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Vaseline.
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Vaseline?
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Your mother ain't never put Vaseline on
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your face when you was growing up?
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That's just cuz we couldn't afford
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Nivea, you know what
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Nah, I mean the Vaseline. I just put
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Vaseline.
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That's Vaseline?
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That's Vaseline. It's soap, wash your
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butt first, AND THEN THE VASELINE.
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YOU KNOW I TAKE IT TO THE BASICS.
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TAKE IT TO THE BASICS.
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it to the basics.
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Damn, Vaseline. Man, you need to do some
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Vaseline commercials. You could be the
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ambassador.
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I got you this then, man. At this stage
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in your Are you married?
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No. No, no, no, no.
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I would imagine that and then Tracy you
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could chime in because you're you're
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very outspoken when it comes to
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relationships
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especially women, you know, you give a
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lot of take your perspective on women.
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Do women that you do meet, are they
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intimidated when they meet you?
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Yep, they sure are.
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What is it like?
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Um I have to convince them
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that I'm just a gentleman but I'm just a
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man I'm just a man's man. And what that
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means to me and to the world, see the
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problem that I have is it's the other
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men in the world.
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Okay.
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See I move a certain way. See I move
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solid. I'm a man. If I say something
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I'll do it. If um if I see something
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wrong, it's not what you say it's how
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you say it. My goal is um
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my job is to give you the information
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it's up to how you process it. And I
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believe a man is supposed to teach a
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woman. You got to elevate it a sister.
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So as soon as you meet him in your mind
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you got to say do I need to and can I be
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involved in her life, right? Because if
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she has too much confusion, how can I
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come in to put things right even if I'm
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not going to be with this sister long
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time. As a man my job is to put her on a
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certain direction so that she can
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achieve in life. But most men want to
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take from a female. They want to destroy
12:42
a female. Whereas I meet a person, my
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friends to this day still love me to
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this day cuz I'll teach them how to kick
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it with the man that they with. I'll
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tell hey, you can't say that you got to
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be quiet and listen to what the brother
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got to say especially if he's a a
12:56
provider and a leader. And my
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conversations always are motivating. You
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know, I always try to tell a woman and
13:03
man have your stuff together before you
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approach each other. You know, because
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your choice and um men and women will be
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totally different. Have something to
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bring to the table but the way the world
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is now it's best for females to stay
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single and purchase
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a relationship every now and then like
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kick it with a guy and send him on on
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about his way but never let a dude move
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in with you. When And guy come out the
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car he has a little bag, you got to tell
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the guy cuz you know dudes get
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comfortable.
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Yeah, ain't no way
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Yes, they do. You could you can get two
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outfits out that bag, but leave the the
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other in the car. You can't bring your
13:35
whole bag in in in in in my house, you
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know? And
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Cuz when you purchase, you can return
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more easily.
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And not And just that you ladies and and
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the women, y'all want to fall in love so
13:45
bad cuz it's a pandemic, they let guys
13:48
move in with them. And I'll tell women
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one, if you really want a guy and see he
13:52
serious, ask him for first and last
13:54
month's rent to see if he for real,
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right? And two, guys, if you move in a
13:58
woman, if your name ain't on the lease,
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you're homeless.
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Mhm.
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[ __ ] that's Hey, man, I'm listening.
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ain't on the lease, you're homeless.
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Because
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I got in an argument with a woman today.
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See, cuz most men are dating women
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outside their weight class, right? Guys
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are
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weighing 175, but the girls is 240.
14:16
Domestic violence has risen 19 and 1/2%
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since the pandemic, right? It's the
14:22
women whooping the men's ass since then,
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right? It's the guys running down the
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stairs with the pajamas, the robes, the
14:29
slippers, with the bonnet, running down
14:32
the street as the cops Yeah, as the cops
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are coming down the street and the guys
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are saying, "I called you! I called
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you!" It's the women in the ABOUT SHOOT
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THEM.
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YO, MAN, TK KIRKLAND is here, man.
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With the bonnet. Tracy, I know you
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trying to get in there. Go ahead, Tracy.
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absolutely. Well, I appreciate so much
14:50
that you said, TK, especially because
14:52
all the qualities you described about
14:53
yourself simply describe a leader. You
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know what I mean? How I see it as. And
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so, I'm wondering,
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besides just teaching women, how do you
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feel about treating women? Cuz that was
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a conversation we were having earlier on
15:05
the show cuz Future, he was doing a
15:07
trailer for his music video, and he was
15:08
sitting down with Kevin Samuels, and he
15:11
was saying how he's addicted to spoiling
15:14
beautiful women. And Swae was talking
15:16
about how he's flown out women for I
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don't know how much X dollars, spent
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know.
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on bags. And I feel like it's just
15:23
expensive to date nowadays. How do you
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feel about when a man should blow a bag
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on a woman?
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I don't think you're supposed to blow
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blow a bag on a woman.
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Okay.
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I I believe knowledge is a lot longer
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and thicker than d i c k. Right? And
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what men need to understand is you still
15:41
could take a woman shopping. Like I'll
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lay there with I'll take you you know we
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go eat, lay at the Ritz-Carlton, and
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then I'll say, "Baby, you know what?
15:47
Let's get up early morning and go
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shopping." And I'll say, "Oh, really?"
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Yeah. We're going to go to Neiman
15:51
Marcus,
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and you can have everything that's on
15:54
sale.
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But you cannot buy nothing that's full
15:58
price.
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You You understand what I'm saying? I
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tell her to test. Yeah, I'll get you
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everything on sale. See, what people
16:04
what people trying to do is impress a
16:06
female. But nobody nobody really
16:08
respects you if you really trying to
16:10
impress. I see it on Instagram, the
16:12
Rolexes, the bags that um that women
16:16
get.
16:16
They respect the material, not you.
16:18
Right. And what a man got to ask a
16:19
females when you meet her, and listen to
16:21
me, fellas,
16:23
what have you accomplished in life?
16:25
What's your character? What's your
16:27
substance?
16:28
You know, how do you act when there's a
16:30
issues around the room? How do you How
16:31
do you behave when we go out? Can I
16:33
bring you around my closest friends? You
16:36
know, how's your vocabulary?
16:38
Yes.
16:38
Are you reckless?
16:39
You know, if you
16:41
What's more than two drinks? What
16:42
happens when you take more than two
16:43
drinks? Are you sloppy? Are you
16:45
disrespectful? Do you Do you walk around
16:47
with your ass out?
16:48
Tracy is like, "Yeah."
16:50
Yeah, this is This is why
16:51
This is why I always felt like dude
16:52
shouldn't have women calling them daddy.
16:57
Oh, no, no, no, they can't call me
16:59
daddy.
16:59
Subconsciously
17:01
You can't call me that.
17:02
Exactly. You can't call me daddy. Yeah,
17:04
you can't call me that. But But here's
17:06
the thing now, and let's make sure we
17:08
clear.
17:10
You can't call me daddy.
17:11
My perception on how life should be is
17:14
different cuz there's a age barrier.
17:16
Right.
17:18
Good point. See, there's an age barrier.
17:20
People 30, 40 years younger than me
17:23
are not respecting nothing that I'm
17:25
saying right now.
17:27
Because young kids are being raised by
17:29
young parents.
17:31
See, back in the day you really had the
17:33
the leadership of old school ways,
17:36
elders, and ultimate respect. Kids today
17:39
don't respect you. Kids today will go
17:41
toe-to-toe with you word-to-word and
17:44
think that they're right. So, you find
17:45
yourself bowing down to them so it
17:48
doesn't lead to argument. So, you got to
17:50
be smart enough to have wisdom to say,
17:52
"You know what? I'm I'm not going to win
17:53
this battle. I'm not going to win this
17:55
battle today. I'm just going to let them
17:56
think what they want." But, one thing I
17:58
do know, as you as young kids today go
18:01
through life,
18:02
you're going to bump your head.
18:04
And 20, 30, 40 years from now,
18:07
everything that I'm saying today what
18:08
you don't agree with, you will be
18:11
agreeing with in 40. I guarantee
18:13
TK, DB, jump on that. DB, you one of
18:16
those kids.
18:17
No, cuz I was I was going to talk about
18:19
uh TK, you were doing a a stand-up
18:21
routine one night and you you paused to
18:23
talk to this kid in the crowd and you
18:25
were like, "Hey, man, what do you do for
18:26
a living?" And he just would not tell
18:27
you what he did. And then you found out
18:28
he was about I think he said he was 20.
18:30
Right.
18:31
And remember the girl was sitting next
18:32
to him and you found out that she was
18:34
paying for his clothes and his lifestyle
18:35
and it just it just really got weird and
18:37
awkward between the two of them. But,
18:40
where do you draw the line between
18:41
giving somebody solid advice and when to
18:44
step away and just be like, "You know
18:45
what? This is none of my business. Let
18:46
them go ahead and make mistakes. I'm out
18:48
of it."
18:49
That's a good question. That's a real
18:50
good question because it is kind of
18:52
complicated. Because sometimes you meet
18:55
a female and you want to sex her.
18:57
Uh-huh.
18:58
You're like, "Oh, I like this girl."
19:00
Then I tell men, when you hear a female
19:03
talk, evaluate the situation. You got to
19:06
hear You got to see it in levels like
19:08
3D, like the metaverse. Put it like
19:10
that, right?
19:11
Do Do I see myself involved in the
19:13
situation?
19:14
Mhm.
19:14
Oh, this is crazy. Like, I can't see my
19:18
I got peace in my life. So, why would I
19:20
venture down this path to put myself in
19:23
turmoil and confusion and yelling and
19:25
arguing? So, I'll give this person as
19:28
much knowledge as can, call every now
19:31
and then to give that person some advice
19:34
because I always tell people, why put
19:35
yourself through that when there's a
19:37
group of college [ __ ] graduating in
19:39
June?
19:40
It's a whole new team coming out here.
19:42
IT'S A WHOLE NEW
19:44
IT'S A WHOLE
19:45
NEW TEAM COMING OUT.
19:46
YO, WHOLE NEW TEAM, WHOLE NEW DRAFT.
19:48
HEY, LISTEN, MAN. Um we about to wrap up
19:50
the show in a minute, brother. So, but
19:53
congratulations.
19:54
Sway, listen.
19:56
I hit you, ladies and gentlemen, tell
19:57
you how I move. This is
19:59
This shows the testament of my age.
20:02
I called Sway
20:04
in November
20:06
to book this today.
20:08
Wow.
20:10
November.
20:12
That's how far advanced I am in this
20:14
game. Like, everybody who's working on
20:16
stuff now, I'm already on the year 2025,
20:19
2026.
20:20
Hey, Joe.
20:21
And it was And he was hitting me with
20:23
urgency. And I was like, "What the [ __ ]
20:24
is going ON WITH TK?"
20:26
SO, I FINALLY LIKE, "WHAT YOU DOING WITH
20:28
ME?" I'M LIKE, "YO, IS HE ALL RIGHT,
20:30
[ __ ] WHAT THE [ __ ]
20:31
IS GOING ON WITH TK?
20:33
YO, TK, YOU GOOD, MAN?"
20:36
YEAH, MAN. I just want to book the show.
20:37
What when? Tomorrow? This [ __ ]
20:40
was like, "Nah, man. Next year." I was
20:42
like, "Oh, MAN. COME ON."
20:44
I'M NOT EVEN IN THE STUDIO, MAN. HOLD
20:46
ON.
20:48
[ __ ] Y'ALL, MAN. I WAS
20:49
LOSING SLEEP OVER THAT, BRO.
20:51
I SHOULD WAIT. He said He was like, "T,
20:52
you sure next year?" I said, "Yeah, dog.
20:55
Next year. I'm good. That's just the
20:56
Because that's
20:58
from wisdom and maturity. I stay ahead
21:01
of the game and I always believe in
21:04
Get your stuff accomplished, handle your
21:05
business, and don't put people like
21:08
yourself and
21:09
Ms. Kelly and people who are in charge
21:11
certain things in position to bend over
21:14
backwards when you could do this so far
21:15
in advance. I like everything to be
21:17
smooth and easy.
21:18
out, man.
21:19
What a lesson.
21:19
way. Yeah, I move that way.
21:21
Well, look, y'all can check them out
21:23
tonight at Riddles Comedy Club, correct?
21:25
No, Riddles is going to be this Friday,
21:27
Saturday, Sunday with Damon Williams.
21:29
Oh, [ __ ]
21:29
All right, that's this Friday, Saturday.
21:31
Tonight is at the um Chinese Man Theater
21:34
with Mike Epps.
21:35
Okay.
21:36
um catch me in Tommy T's doing something
21:39
for the Black Panthers up there. I'm
21:40
excited about that. Yeah, it's going to
21:41
be gangster. I'm looking forward to
21:43
that. And then catch us um at the All
21:45
Star break at the Improv in Cleveland,
21:48
Ohio. Put the word on the street. All
21:50
the shows is going to be insane. Get
21:52
your tickets today sooner than you hear
21:53
it cuz it's going to sell out. I'm on
21:54
Sway Universe.
21:55
There it is, baby.
21:56
Better get your tickets now, man. All
21:58
right, TK Kirkland, man.
21:59
Congratulations. Y'all follow him at
22:01
TK_Kirkland.
22:02
Yes, sir.
22:03
Thank you, sir.
22:04
Sway, may your pain be champagne.
22:05
Thank you, brother.
22:08
All right, man.
22:09
You can't block
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