Wtf am I doing with my life?!

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A messy notebook for a music life.

The gist

Tino Kildit uses the show as a running self-check on music, identity, and the strange math of trying to make art work. Episodes move between solo reflection and loose conversations with friends about battle rap, independent releases, family history, and the people who shaped them.

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About Wtf am I doing with my life?!

The show is a personal-journal record of Tino Kildit trying to understand his own creative life while still inside it. It has the feel of someone using the microphone to think, remember, correct himself, and keep moving. Music is the center, but the show is not only about songs or projects. It is about what making music asks from a person when the path is unclear, the money is tight, and the work still feels nonnegotiable. The solo moments can be raw and reflective. The conversations are looser, built around friends, old scenes, shared histories, and the kind of details that only surface when people have known each other for a while. Battle rap is one recurring anchor. Tino and Manuel Zapata, XCypher209X talk through battles, events, travel, promoters, footage, reputations, and the limits of trying to make money in a scene that often costs more than it returns. The EP the Mime episodes shift toward independent artistry and musical growth. Alex Lopez, aka EP The Mime, becomes a way into instrumental composition, piano, music theory, Michael, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, and the difference between learning formally and figuring things out because music has already been in the body for years. The show also makes room for heavier biography. In the Zlatan conversation, birth during war, leaving Bosnia, property management, eviction, housing, and drug problems enter the same conversational space as friendship and creative support. Nothing is polished into a clean lesson. That is part of its value. The show lets practical details sit beside emotional ones: rooms, gas money, albums, streaming platforms, old jobs, people who encouraged the work, and people who are no longer around to see it. It suits a listener who wants the lived texture behind a music pursuit, not just the finished artist statement.

Made for: Suits a listener who likes personal creative journals, independent music stories, and casual conversations that wander into real emotional weight. It also fits someone curious about battle rap culture from the inside, without needing a formal explainer.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating music ambition as a lived day-to-day problem rather than a polished success story. Its strongest moments come from specific memories, friend conversations, and practical details about scenes, travel, influence, and self-belief.

In their own words

Hello everyone!my name is Tinokilledit, I am a Musician from Tracy, Ca. who moved down to Orange County in Southern California in pursuit of a full time career in music. i have been documenting this life endeavor since early 2020 and have pushed myself to remain as honest as can be and allow you guys to know my fears, regrets as well as successes. I am an imperfect person whose biggest desire is to keep growing and learning. Drake said it best, "The Furthest Thing from Perfect like Everyone I Know"

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Creative ambition becomes concrete here, measured through production choices, performance costs, friendship, grief, and the daily work of sustaining an artistic life.

Tino Killed It turns an uncertain creative career into an ongoing conversation about how artists build a life around their work. Guest exchanges with EP The Mime and xCypher209x move from music theory and production choices to battle rap, promotion, travel costs, and the…

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Why you'd press play

Battle rap travel money is where your creative dream meets the gas receipt.

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  • to hear Tino Killed It and a friend work out which parts of piano theory they actually needed
  • to hear Zlatan tell you about his family's flight from Bosnia and the difficult work that came later
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independent musicbattle rapcreative self-directionfriendship and supportartistic influencespiano and music theorymigration and family historypromoters and travel costs

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Episodes

  1. 1

    THIS is Wtf I’m doing with my life

    Hidden gem

    Tino Kildit closes What the fuck am I doing with my life?

    Jul 30, 2023·35m·2 clips
  2. 2

    Healthy Outlets

    Mar 24, 2023·30m
  3. 3

    Magnitude R1

    Feb 1, 2023·30m
  4. 4

    Hyperactivity

    Jan 16, 2023·39m
  5. 5

    The Value of Human Interaction

    Jan 10, 2023·25m
  6. 6

    The New TKI Radio

    Dec 12, 2022·36m
  7. 7

    In my Development era

    Nov 15, 2022·31m
  8. 8

    Effervescent

    Nov 7, 2022·43m
  9. 9

    Jameson (Happy Halloween)

    Oct 31, 2022·36m
  10. 10

    Leaving Las Vegas

    Oct 24, 2022·49m
  11. 11

    Runners High

    Sep 13, 2022·40m
  12. 12

    WTF SHOULD I do with my life??

    Aug 24, 2022·26m
  13. 13

    Boundaries

    Aug 16, 2022·29m
  14. 14

    Welita

    Aug 10, 2022·29m
  15. 15

    R&B Formula (Part 4)

    Aug 2, 2022·29m
  16. 16

    R&B Formula (part 3)

    Jul 19, 2022·38m
  17. 17

    R&B Formula (part 2)

    Jul 12, 2022·35m
  18. 18

    R&B Formula (Part 1)

    Jun 27, 2022·38m
  19. 19

    Takes A Village

    Jun 22, 2022·39m
  20. 20

    Much Needed

    Jun 14, 2022·22m
  21. 21

    Outside of an In Crowd

    Jun 6, 2022·49m
  22. 22

    TKI Studio

    May 30, 2022·48m
  23. 23

    Mindfulness

    Feb 18, 2022·46m
  24. 24

    WTF y'all got against Jay-Z

    Jan 2, 2022·42m
  25. 25

    1%

    Dec 15, 2021·50m
  26. 26

    WTF is Mental Health?

    Nov 30, 2021·38m
  27. 27

    Shoeless in Seattle

    Oct 4, 2021·37m
  28. 28

    Ducks n Covers with xCypher209x

    Host Tino interviews his longtime friend and relative Manuel Zapata, known in battle rap as XCypher209X, about their shared history in the West Coast underground battle rap scene and XCypher's career as a rapper and ghostwriter.

    Sep 27, 2021·44m·3 clips
  29. 29

    The Story of Jersey

    Sep 20, 2021·47m
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    The Story of Portland

    Sep 14, 2021·36m
  31. 31

    Smorgasbord Part 2

    Sep 1, 2021·42m
  32. 32

    Smorgasbord Part 1

    Sep 1, 2021·30m
  33. 33

    WTF am I talking about?

    Aug 10, 2021·33m
  34. 34

    Treadmill Theory

    Aug 4, 2021·27m
  35. 35

    4 stages of Radio

    Jul 20, 2021·31m
  36. 36

    WTF are you doing in Vegas?

    Jul 12, 2021·36m
  37. 37

    Earplug Origins with EP the Mime (Part 2)

    Hidden gem

    In Part 2 of this episode of 'Wtf am I doing with my life?!', host Tino and guest EP The Mime (Alex Lopez) discuss Michael Jackson's death on its 12th anniversary — which falls on their recording date — and their shared musical influences including Michael Jackson, Prince, and Lenny Kravitz.

    Jul 5, 2021·38m·2 clips
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    Earplug Origins with EP the Mime (Part 1)

    Hidden gem

    Host Tino Kildit interviews Alex Lopez, known as EP The Mime, about his debut instrumental album 'Earplug Origins,' which he describes as 'dark knight batman music modernized into pop structure.' EP explains that his mime persona originated as a personal metaphor — a character who always listens but never gets to speak — and that his mask draws from MF Doom, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Brandon Lee's The Crow, and Daft Punk.

    Jun 28, 2021·48m·3 clips
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    Foreign Affairs with Zlatan Jurinovic

    Hidden gem

    Host Tino interviews his longtime friend Zlatan Jurinovic, who was born in Bosnia in 1992 and fled as a one-month-old infant when the Slavic war began, spending six years in Germany before arriving in the United States in 1999.

    Jun 22, 2021·47m·3 clips
  40. 40

    The Formula (Part 4)

    Jun 14, 2021·55m
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    The Formula (Part 3)

    May 31, 2021·40m
  42. 42

    The Formula (Part 2)

    May 24, 2021·35m
  43. 43

    The Formula (Part 1)

    May 17, 2021·35m
  44. 44

    Blessings

    Apr 6, 2021·27m
  45. 45

    Tinokilledit 5k Run

    Mar 29, 2021·30m
  46. 46

    Uncomfortably Growing

    Mar 15, 2021·25m
  47. 47

    Tinokilledit.live

    Feb 24, 2021·25m
  48. 48

    It's My Birthday!!

    Feb 10, 2021·22m
  49. 49

    Hollywood the Album

    Feb 1, 2021·31m
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    Tinokilledit.com

    Jan 23, 2021·17m