
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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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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Episodes
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THIS is Wtf I’m doing with my life
Hidden gemTino Kildit closes What the fuck am I doing with my life?
Jul 30, 2023·35m·2 clips - 2
Healthy Outlets
Mar 24, 2023·30m - 3
Magnitude R1
Feb 1, 2023·30m - 4
Hyperactivity
Jan 16, 2023·39m - 5
The Value of Human Interaction
Jan 10, 2023·25m - 6
The New TKI Radio
Dec 12, 2022·36m - 7
In my Development era
Nov 15, 2022·31m - 8
Effervescent
Nov 7, 2022·43m - 9
Jameson (Happy Halloween)
Oct 31, 2022·36m - 10
Leaving Las Vegas
Oct 24, 2022·49m - 11
Runners High
Sep 13, 2022·40m - 12
WTF SHOULD I do with my life??
Aug 24, 2022·26m - 13
Boundaries
Aug 16, 2022·29m - 14
Welita
Aug 10, 2022·29m - 15
R&B Formula (Part 4)
Aug 2, 2022·29m - 16
R&B Formula (part 3)
Jul 19, 2022·38m - 17
R&B Formula (part 2)
Jul 12, 2022·35m - 18
R&B Formula (Part 1)
Jun 27, 2022·38m - 19
Takes A Village
Jun 22, 2022·39m - 20
Much Needed
Jun 14, 2022·22m - 21
Outside of an In Crowd
Jun 6, 2022·49m - 22
TKI Studio
May 30, 2022·48m - 23
Mindfulness
Feb 18, 2022·46m - 24
WTF y'all got against Jay-Z
Jan 2, 2022·42m - 25
1%
Dec 15, 2021·50m - 26
WTF is Mental Health?
Nov 30, 2021·38m - 27
Shoeless in Seattle
Oct 4, 2021·37m - 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
The Story of Jersey
Sep 20, 2021·47m - 30
The Story of Portland
Sep 14, 2021·36m - 31
Smorgasbord Part 2
Sep 1, 2021·42m - 32
Smorgasbord Part 1
Sep 1, 2021·30m - 33
WTF am I talking about?
Aug 10, 2021·33m - 34
Treadmill Theory
Aug 4, 2021·27m - 35
4 stages of Radio
Jul 20, 2021·31m - 36
WTF are you doing in Vegas?
Jul 12, 2021·36m - 37
Earplug Origins with EP the Mime (Part 2)
Hidden gemIn 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 - 38
Earplug Origins with EP the Mime (Part 1)
Hidden gemHost 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 - 39
Foreign Affairs with Zlatan Jurinovic
Hidden gemHost 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
The Formula (Part 4)
Jun 14, 2021·55m - 41
The Formula (Part 3)
May 31, 2021·40m - 42
The Formula (Part 2)
May 24, 2021·35m - 43
The Formula (Part 1)
May 17, 2021·35m - 44
Blessings
Apr 6, 2021·27m - 45
Tinokilledit 5k Run
Mar 29, 2021·30m - 46
Uncomfortably Growing
Mar 15, 2021·25m - 47
Tinokilledit.live
Feb 24, 2021·25m - 48
It's My Birthday!!
Feb 10, 2021·22m - 49
Hollywood the Album
Feb 1, 2021·31m - 50
Tinokilledit.com
Jan 23, 2021·17m