Successful Blog

The song goes "I just wanna be, I just wanna be, I just wanna be SUCCESSFUL". Yeah Drake I Fucking Feel Ya and thankfully for him so did the rest of the world. Never has a song had a more universal appeal and a message everybody could identify with sinc e T-Boz's "Touch myself". OH My! Yeah it may had a tad uncatchy hook but it had a great theme that anybody and everybody can identify with. That's why in the '09 I want to switch up to a theme that was more attainable at this point. So for the next couple of paragraph's I just wanna be wanna be I just wanna be undebtful
Yep I share the same dreams General Motors does ppl. We even had other things in common. My debt was acumulating because I kept making shitty grades and theirs was because they made to many shitty cars. So I am waiting for the government to bail me out instead of them calling every week telling that I need to pay GM the money I owe them.
But I am working to get out of it. Working 2 jobs trying to make 1 job money and no job benefits. But bills get paid on time. And by On time I mean CP time like coned will get they bill payment 2 weeks after the final notice. Its just cuz I believe that I need 2 work on my technique of working in the dark.
Na but I am working hard with the shows setting up shows and doing the crazy hustle of both. I want the success I want the debt gone but mostly I want to be recognized. So drizzy buzz I want it so look out for kyledbostic TV, the blog and definitely follow me on twitter kyledbostic. I'm out like the knicks season.

The Black Brett Favre

Is Jay-z becoming the Black Brett Favre? He was supposed to retire after Volume 2 when he said it in the intro. Now we are on volume never ending story that he sold crack. All we need is the white flying dog throwing up the triangle and we are set. We get it your the greatest of all time you done things in this game that nobody ever has done or will do and we will never forget that because you tell us that on every song.

Its crazy writing this because for a long time I was Hova's biggest ally. I had an answer for anything they threw my way. Ask me to explain the sunshine video "Sunshine" I was like puffy dancing fucked up the glow of the suit but it was hot when he first bought it." Ask me to explain the Nas 2nd diss and I would point to that he didn't lose it was just Nas was using word steroids so it should be stricken from the record books. Ask me 2 explain why Memphis Bleek had a career I was finally tongue-tied. Relax though Bleek you are in the will somewhere between Beyonce's huge portion and Ta Ta's share for making sure that Mr. "I wish" wished his tour partner didn't roll so hard. Oh yeah and that was jay-z handing down justice the courts didn't.
But lately I've been flabbergasted at the true similarities between the two all time greats. Both had a period of utter dominance that was unparalleled in their fields Favre with the MVP awards and Hov with the ten straight summers. Both had an uncharacteristic fall from grace Favre with his addiction to pain killers and Jay with the Blueprint 2(Really a Frank Sinatra cover was the way to go after ETHER....! Alert the bitchassness police I think we got a suspect). And the a return to grace only to be tarnished by a comeback.I don't know which was worse Favre Jet year or 'Kingdom Come'. "Show Me What You Got". I'll tell you what you don't have: Another Hit.

Don't get me wrong these two are some of the greatest of all time. But they remind me of when I got He-Man and the Castle of Greyskull for Christmas. It was the greatest thing I ever got and I will always remember the feeling I got when I opened it I still get chills. But that doesn't mean 20 years later I break it out when I have company over like "We're really going to have fun now!!!" That's the way I feel about Jay-Z and Brett Favre. That they should stay in the memories and attics of our mind forever and never come back.

La da da da hail hail goodbye

The show was great and everything was fine great comics I always have fun at pudge's show @ play lounge. This is prolly the most fun environment - ever been. A bowling alley, pooln drinks and plinko. I am pretty sure it has prostitution if you can stay long enough not that I can condone it but here you can get it at a reasonable price.Pudge Fernandez runs the joint and I can vouch that he is.1 of the hardest working guys in the game. Not that these drinks have anything to do with it but I am downing another henny and coke while I am writing this blog. This is really testing the limits of performance enhancers. I hope I am not tested because I will be suspended for 100 shows. Well at least - can blame it literally on over the counter stimulants. I am out like Lil Wayne kissing Baby

If I don't like the things going on around me. Maybe I need to 2 change the things that I'm around

When we last left our nongangster hero, it was real dark and bleary for him. I mean times got real hard like trying to understand Sarah Palin's thought's before the speechwriter's come and do their job of making her competently stupid. I mean your boy had no where to live no certain future I was turning into my worst nightmare; A stereotype of myself. All I was missing was a copy of certain catch phrases like "The White man is holding me down," and my personal favorite "what can I do but just stay black and die". I was about to to give up and quit like Judd Apatow does in every movie. Yep all this time and tales about drugs alcohol and depression was just a trap to lead you into the ultimate climax, a love story which I don't have any idea where it came from. So yes quitting was an option, just a bad one that potentially could ruin a great blog.
So what did I do with all this pressure mounting on my shoulders when I thought I had nowhere to turn to? My mother is in a new relationship and my father is now disabled. My grandmom has enough stress on her hands handling her own rent. Where was I 2 go what was I 2 do?
My best friend saved me like mariano rivera circa 2000 but still a lot of changes needed to be made. No longer could the coochie and alcohol be my masters and the only ppl who could be down with me had to roll like al in the white bronco not roll over like the boys who were actually living at Michael Vick's house. I learned I was master of my own domain king of my own castle(well maybe court jester but at least my spot is reserved. Now who is ready 2 count these millions with me in 2028?

How many more

We interrupt your usual Comical musings to talk about some real shit. Not the realism that is portrayed in videos but the true perspective differences between two communities: African American and suburban America.
Last Thursday as you may know, Officer Omar Edwards was killed as he was first wrongly identified as a perp by fellow Officer Andrew Dunton after he already chased down a thief. A tragedy in all senses of the word that has left the black community mystified and other parts of New York saddened. Recently Charlie Rangel has come into fire for saying that if you are black and don't have the right identification not even President Obama is safe. People have said that this is typical race baiting for a black politician similiar to what Al Sharpton or Charles Barron does on a regular basis but the underlying truth still remains; that there are two different perspectives of Police's role in society and we must do our best to bridge that gap so that justice doesn't seem to be choosing a side it just is what we all want it to be: TRUTH.
First off I commend Congressman Rangel for actually voicing what his community truly feels. Too often, elected officials don't voice to the nation what their constituents really echo, they are just there for a chance to advance their own agendas and soft-pedal it off as an investment for their community. They take on hot-button issue that everyone have resoundingly little effect on their society (i.e Leroy Comrie jumping to stop the use of the N-word in black communities or The Republican War on Drugs).
Just want to truly open the debate about how Police react to blacks as opposed to whites. I hope I can generate a debate

These 4 Walls they surround me

Sorry Non Gangster lovers, I haven't been given you a CNN like track of my life recently but it has gone into technical difficulties due to a cyclical recurrence of a disease other then the swine flu. Even though this disease is known to result in severe over panic,worry and concern, rest assured it has actually merited these extremes unlike that other disease which has only manipulated into allowing the release of 20 terrorists amongst our prison population. Personally I like the idea because you would now only have to worry about a phone check but a suicide bombing phone check and it would give the terrorists the liberty to create designs in there beard to indicate what side of Afghanistan they are repping. Yes Yes I know it may sound racists but all of the people I have talked about just took my money when i bought this 40 oz of death. Oh and the disease that I have been afflicted with is non other then that wonderful beautiful version of cheer and glee: DEPRESSION.
Yes depression hits us all especially us non gangsters. How are we supposed to survive without hustling and basketball? I wish I was really joking but when finances get tight, creditors start calling you by the name your mama nicknamed you and the landlord only refers to you by the affectionate title of ASSHOLE, you start to really question why you go to work everyday then try to make people laugh. To take that lonely trip home and then get denied the nookie by your girl. Aah the good times of coming home at 2 in the morning every night. Then it all becomes a repetitive vicious circle. Its draining taxing and question do you really have any talent or a purpose to be here but the dangerous side is when you have this convo with no second opinion. That's when thoughts blacken out more then the NBA during the 90's(Shout out to J-L Caulvin on an intelligent look on the decline of the white player in the NBA click here ).
So what do you do then? You hit rock bottom you languish you don't want to be around no-one. Hopefully this only goes on for to days then you begin to smell like a combination of New Jersey and hot dog water(love the old school reference.). But the question is how do you bounce out of it.
My family talked to me. They helped but i still wasn't ready to go through fighting day to day. My God brother helped me but still just was really out of it. I had a strong base behind me but was letting my depression crack through it all. It wasn't until I actually seen the smile on my Godson face that I realized that I wanted to see him grow up and live his life. I wanted to make his life as wonderful as he made mine for the last two years. Sometimes answers aren't in the clouds people. They are in the faces of those that really care for you, Especially the little ones. No exciting sign off just glad to still be alive.

In the Boxes

Good morning again Non Gangster lovers. Your favorite nonconformists is back at it. Fully bearded, without swag, ready to spread his message of individuality against a world predicated on dumbing everybody down and accepting everything without question. I think if it was up to the powers that be we would all watch Maury Povich and only talk about how much swagger we all have. Dam sounds like most people's lives I know already. I am feeling like a superhero right now, just without the big blockbuster movie about me, especially no tights(I think I would wear a hoody and sweatpants to save the world) or the reckless geek following. Come to think about it any following would be better then the one i have now.
What I've come to talk to y'all about today is a trend we all witness and experience that I just did. We tend to group every one in narrow boxes and we don't ever let them out. Two nights ago I did a gig for an audience of a whole other persuasion (white no need to hide identity in a blog, we need to keep it real) and I seen a comic before me go onstage and do his best Comic View impression. You Know y'all heard this before. "WHite people be whiling" Insert blanks for stereotypical joke here. The only thing was he was surprised when nobody laughed. He came off the stage saying I hate white people and only MY PEOPLE get me. Well if that is the truth the only people you are affiliated with like bad impressions of Eddie Griffin.

Its just these old Def Jam impressions seem so fake and stale to me. They are not real don't come from actual experiences just from what is expected of us. I call these the Flavor Of Love Reunion jokes because they come with alot of weave and La La Vasquez is hosting them but they are just doing it because that is there only way to get on TV. Just feel like if I don't call them out now we will hear alot worst in the future like For the Love of SouljaBoy Reunion jokes.
The crazy thing about it though is the white comediens I run into do the same thing. They think they can only do a Lower East Side hipster crowd and won't come outside of that white picket fence. Only a few accept the challenge of appealing to the masses and try both crowds.
Thats why I respect alot of new school comic who have taken the mantle and want to try to do more things other then the softshoe dance in front of their crowds. Yes that a racist term and they are welcome to call me Uncle Tom if they want to at this point I don't care. I just have to be real to me and disregard these boxes and leave these titles to the people they belong to. BUMS.
I am out like the Ghost of Rick Ross's Career

Hatred of A team

I don't know where it began, Maybe when i noticed that Larry Bird was quite possibly the ugliest person who ever existed or that a team with no dance team and just men bonding in the stands wasn't exactly the heterosexual experience I could follow, but throughout my life one thing has been made abundantly clear, I cannot and I repeat I cannot stand the Celtics in any shape form or fashion.
Fortunately through the help of Chris Ford, ML Carr and the unfortunate death of Reggie Lewis, this team has stunk for a long time keeping my hatred at bay. I had to funnel my hate in other directions which doesn't work as well. Its like hating the boyfriend of the girl who broke up with you, only she wasn't a good lay complained all the time and stuff was always your fault. Secretly your glad that dude is stuck with that problem now. So the Phillies or Braves will never measure up to the contempt I have for the Celtics. They took my hating virginity and then dumped me. I should never be watching them win with a blunt object or that TV is in severe jeopardy.
A couple years ago Danny Ainge pulled off the trade that saved his job and drove Isiah Thomas so crazy he started sexually harassing employees disrespecting his players and got himself a job at Florida International a college so irrelevant its basketball team just got beat by Lincoln High School by 30 points. I know Isiah will be locked away in a padded room in three years talking about "I gave McHale the better deal and Ainge should have his arms tucked in" Yet the new age Celtics were born and every body who likes basketball on the East Coast seems to have jumped on their bandwagon. Which off course makes me even sicker.
The bad thing about the whole experience is that I tried to like the new school Celtics at first. I would use them during video game battles, watch them and appreciate the way Garnett Allen and Pierce coexisted as one. Then something happened. Kendrick Perkins started thinking he was good and started popping smack. Then Eddie House a perennial journeyman who I thought next job would be delivering me food at a drive through window has the audacity to say something to anybody. At that point my world was finally set right again. It was like I seen that girl who took my virginity flirting with me then kicking me in the balls as we go up to the hotel room. I should have known better but with your friends in your ear you always think you can give things a second chance. Well that second chance ended with Kendrick Perkins, who is one knee injury away from telling me I can't get in the club with these shoes on, popping smack.

So I thank you Kendrick and Eddie for making me realize who the Celtics really were. I think I am going to enjoy Orlando winning this series and finally shutting up these New York fans who root for the Celtics. That still makes me cringe every time I see or hear it. Not quite the drinking bleach cringing but I probably will swallow some thumbtacks. Aw well here is a drink to a loss in Game 2 Au Revoure Celtic lovers.

Baby Baby Fallin in Love Falling in love again

Throughout my whole life I've been chasing something that has always elusive to me. No Not fame and money though I think those two also think I ain't shit. I am talking bout the big four letter word in the cursing universe. That's right Love.
I mentioned earlier that I loved Basketball. That was my first and just like a first love it took me through all the highs and lows of a drug addiction. Just when you think you ready to marry this broad she drops you for the taller more good looking athlete even though she knows you are putting all your heart and soul and occasionally a VCR into her. Of course that relationship ended messy and sent me into a deep depression.
My second love has been comedy and of course I am being cautious with this one. I cancel dates sometimes and don't want to fall as deep for comedy even though It shows way more appreciation then basketball ever did.
Those loves are all well and good but those aren't what we lust after late at night. They can take us ever so far but basic animal instinct is what we come too and most people make a profit off us. If you don't think this is true ask yourself why Cinemax hasn't even given thought to changing its programs after 12. I digress as usual.
The odd thing though I haven't been searching for love as hard as I've really been searching for a consistent sex buddy. I had a girlfriend for 3 years and I can now admit that I wasn't ready and it wasn't fair what i did with her. I realize some of my mistakes and even though I broke up with her I still really care for her and glad that we are still friends.
Which brings us to the current day. I am dating again and as usual I did everything backwards (You can fill in the blanks from here). But getting to know this girl has been a great journey one that I was not ready for and I think I met a special person this time. Wow that felt as corny typing it as it did when it came through my fingers. The truth can be a little Dane Cookish what can I say. When you can look past each others problems and see their enormous potential, I don't know what to call that but not ready to let another four letter word leak out of these fingers.
Alright that's all I got to say this week people. Enjoy Wolverine, The Black Pineapple Express and all the Basketball Games this weekend.I'm out like Kevin Garnett in the playoffs

Rowdy Fans

Finally Finally Kyle Daniel Bostic came back to the stage. Yes after the pain and agony I went through Last week, I finally had the guts to tell my story on stage.
It started off that I was going to Yamaneika new spot. Yamaneika Saunders is one of the most talented female comics in the game period. She has a new spot at the Village Lantern from 7 - 9 at 167 Bleeker Street in the West Village, and if your in the city I would recommend you check it out. But the black person in me wound up working overtime so I didn't leave work till around 7:30. Also left my wallet back in the office So didn't get to the A train till 7:45
So I finally get to West 4th on the train. It's 8:15 and my hopes of getting up at Ya's place is dashed. I go to Alibi which is at 116 Macdougal because they had some newer comics running the show. Its not a bad show cuz Carey B is always great. So I stop in and they have a nice crowd. I notice they getting a little too into the show in the front row. Usually its the host job to check them. But instead a long interaction is happening which is only leaves it worsts for any comic that comes on stage.
So just like I expected the loud group of white ppl begin to take over the show. And I am not saying all white ppl are loud just these assholes. They begin to talk through everyones set have side conversations during the sets and one girl even took a call in the front row. They added a side comment to every joke. It becomes a time where most comics are just waiting for the light.
So Carey goes on he kills. Great set eats the bullet for alot of us and he does what i thought was impossible only three seconds ago. He manages to keep the ADD patients in the front row quiet and concentrating on laughing.
So there is one comic before me. Of course they go back to being themselves again. I thought at one point they were going to start chucking a football around during his set. So I see i Had one option.
I get onstage and begin with the weed joke. They giggle. then i hit them with the dealer joke. they laugh. Ok so far so good. Tell them the story about what happened at my house. It works. Now i have them so I go into the drinking joke. thats where all the problems start.
So one girl wants to add on to my joke because corona's + loud always = Funny(Not!!!). Please I am warning you to not do this with a comic who has any type of lunch room experience. It never ends up good on your end. So After I light into them and get back into my set, of course it takes a huge nosedive. I could have said the famous Kanye Fishstick joke and just gotten a chuckle. But I acheived my ultimate goal. To make them totally pay attention to the headliner.
So the crowd is letting out and they are talking to one of my comic friends. About how she as an actress knows what unprofessional is and my set was unprofessional. That since we are at a bar we should expect ppl to come in be rowdy text during our sets and it was our jobs to adjust. But she prefaced by saying I was funny. Thanks
First let me address the actress part. This girl was about 5'1 160 lbs. So unless they are having a remake of the Wizard of Oz munchkinland, I don't think she should be expecting any calls any time soon. Secondly is it not to much for people to expect if you come in knowing you are going to watch a comedy show, for you to behave like you haven't been trained by whips to jump through hoops of fire. Maybe it is to much for non African Americans to sit down and enjoy what you are watching without trying to add to the show. I guess I just live in a Utopia. Well I did get a great solace that night. I got to watch the Mets lose and yell at the TV that I hate being a Mets fan. So take that Miss Actress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Past is the Past

You ever notice when some fucked up shit happens to you, You always relate it to the past when it has nothing to do with it. Just say you got stuck up one night and now you relating it to your worst experience in the past like when you forgot that underwear was a necessity for school. Those two just ain't in the same category. Alex Trabek would have past the answer to the next contestant.
Why am I saying this because of all the things I have been going through lately, I've tried to link it with past experiences when I've felt uncomfortable. Shit ain't work though. Just getting robbed at your house doesn't measure up to mad Mofo's being in your house when your 16 and can't control it.
Its just been an empty feeling all week. Sort of like Sarah Palin's head on drugs but worst. I wish I could see cold ass Russia at this point but pain was mostly what i seen. Just not being able to protect your home. That's rule 1 of man law and I wasn't there and failed again.
Starting to think I am worse at this being a man thing then Tom Cruise. Whoa, that was a definite shot. Tom Cruise isn't a homosexual, He Just has a baby like Michael Jackson that looks nothing like its parents. OK I think its time to drink some more. But know truthfully the past is the past and New Problems complicate shit till you can only deal with a bottle.
THE END..................

Comedy Pratfalls

Right now in comedy I think I am at a crossroads. Alot of the guys I first started with are making major moves(Richly deserved and I commend them for it) But recently I see myself going in circles. It doesn't help that in my personal life is up in the air like crazy right now, but my focus still has to be on what i want as a lifetime profession. What limits will I go to to truly be successful in this business?
This is the question I ask me and my team of one everyday. Will I get naked on stage and perform comedy? Hell No don't you ever think you will see my balls and mustache at the same time its not going down. Do I need to hook up with a team to enhance my star power? Actually this is the one that I have toyed with the most because its mostly comedians who haven't hit the big time who have their own money to fund smaller tours. This would be cool if I had a better relationships with most of the other young comedians.
The two other ways are getting on at a comedy club or Attracting the attention of a Big time Comic.
But alas I am gonna try to find my own way to make it. I just need more focus towards my greater goal, which is performing all across the country. Not really looking for the movies and stuff I am really in it for the art and want everyone to know this. So signing off Again it is your favorite nongangster Reporting for duty

Basketball Tournament

Well the tournament is finished and congratulations to North Carolina. All I was concerned about in the tournament was how my brackets were doing anyway. I remember being at Caroline's ready to go on stage and how I was trying to convince everyone Wake Forests was going to make a serious run in the tournament. Needless to say I lost my pool the first weekend of that tournament. The Girl who won it picked Carolina and Michigan State in the Championship because her first boyfriend bought her some baby blue Air Force Ones and she always picked Michigan since the fab Five left. I mean that would be relevant if they weren't two totally different Colleges who were bitter rivals to each other. Other then that, its a fine pick.
But this just goes to show you that all the knowledge you've accumulated over watching hours and hours of basketball means nothing. (I've even got a first ten picks in the draft that's probably more accurate then all the ESPN analyst combined.). Learning that Gonzaga plays soft everytime someone steps up to them. nothing. Knowing that Memphis is not as good as they were last year despite what every talking head would like to tell you. Well that actually made me better then the 30 percentile in my brackets. Aw well this is a good lesson for next year. I know exactly what i am going to do before the tournament. I am going to buy the new Soulja Boy CD while watching ten hours of Maury before i make my selections. That way I can remember to pick Duke because I loved them since Vince Carter won the dunk contests for them.
Any ways till next time Ciao.

Start of the beginning

If you don't know My Name is Kyle Bostic. I decided to call this blog Musings of a Black NonGangster because thats how i feel we are personified on screen in Athletics and worst of all Dora the Explorer(why Swiper gotta rock the bandana that hard?). And thats not what Me and my private school background represent. For a long time I wished it was that most of my younger life prolly till I was about 25(about the time A-rod started to realize steroids were wrong, I think is about time I considered looking up to someone who posted up on the block isn't the way to go.)
Well for those that do know me I had an extensive career in basketball. Played my freshmen year in Delafield Wisconsin. Then I broke my ankle. Came home Broke my ankle again. By the time I was able to finally play my senior year. No colleges wanted me. I then Played some AAU ball got noticed by a couple schools. Parents got into a domestic violence altercation so I Stayed home a year and then finally landed at Mansfield University.
I got into comedy at first as a way to fill the void that was there since I could no longer play the game I loved all my life competitively. My comedy Career started by doing a bringer at the Comedy Village 3 years ago that was hosted by Duncan Jay and headlined by Chris Iacono. It has been a harrowing journey so far, alongside the great nights and awful ones I have learned alot about myself. I learned I am a fighter. I learned theres a lot of layers of my life that i finally explore and come to grips with because of comedy. Best of all I have learned that I am an artest at heart and probably would do this for the rest of my life.
Now I think I am going to finish my night by finally watching a Making of the Band episode.