Name: Kevin Gates on Why He Doesn't Self Touch
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Gates on Why He Doesn't Self Touch' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Gates on Why He Doesn't Self Touch' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-17. Transcript available.

And then I've been on a semen retention journey for the last, what, maybe five
years I talked about, like, retaining the life force, retaining the semen, not
watching porn, not jacking off, taking that sexual energy and transmuting it
into something else.
So if I have a craving to go jack off or I'm horny or whatever you want to call
it, I go to the gym or I go to the studio, I transmute that energy into
something else.
And most people are just out here jacking off.
Man, you realize, though, when you see dudes with a lot of women, but them
dudes be stressed out.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
As a man, you're going to see shit that you're going to look, but at the same
time, you ain't going to help me on my mission.
You're going to take away.
You ain't going to add value to me.
You're going to take from me.
You know, behind closed doors, do you speak life into me?
Do you help me become greater?
Are you helping me become greater?
Like, it don't really be that.
And if you are helping me become greater, are you helping me become greater for
me or are you helping me become greater for you?
Are you manipulating me?
Are you verbally abusive to me behind closed doors?
You know what I'm saying?
Like, are you using my flaws against me?
You know, there's a lot of women that'll do that, too.
And no, excuse me.
I can't say women.
It's a lot of people that'll do that.
Because I done had men do that, too, like, bring up stuff from the past and try
to hold it against me to keep you within whatever kind of energetic construct
that they have for you.
Because they need your energy.
Everybody's life is great, but we suffer.
So that's why I'm mad with it right now.
Yeah, that seems to be something that's kind of vexing our community.
I wasn't even going to talk about this, but, shit, you the one.
You got it all, bitch.
Oh, I wasn't even trying to get anything.
I'm just trying to tip it off.
I already know, but it's like, this is going to be healing for somebody.
Oh, it's healing for me.
That's why I'm curious about it.
It's like, because I'm sick of, like, you know, in my own life.
But also, I'm the one keeping me there.
That's the crazy thing.
It's like, I have the ability to change things.
And I do a good job.
I say in my song, I'm only excited about spiritual things, and I swear I can't
wait to move on.
I'm only excited about spiritual things.
Yeah, I think I'm just amazed sometimes that, I don't know, but I'm also, you
know, I got a late start sometimes.
Man.
I got a late start.
I'm 39.
I just look, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah.
I just don't age.
I'm 39, though.
So I feel like it's never too late.
Yeah.
It's never too late.
But when you said that about all the women, that shit was draining.
Yeah, well, just, I have so many of my friends, like, I'm going on this date.
I don't care.
Just like, well, what are we doing?
And then you have people, it's like you're giving yourself away to people.
And I'm not accusing anybody.
That's what I'm talking about myself and my own life.
And then it's just.
Tell me about it.
Yeah.
Tell me about it.
Yeah, it's just a trap, too.
I mean, a lot of the sex, the dating, just the pornography, because that's been
something I've dealt with, you know?
When you stop watching porn, it's going to change everything.
Yeah.
It's going to change the way you have sex.
Once you realize these people are acting, this is fake.
Yeah.
This is not real.
This is not a connection.
This is bullshit.
No disrespect to people that do porn.
It's just.
But they know it.
They know it's fake.
You know, they know it's.
That's just not my cup of tea.
That just ain't no.
Like, how a man told me, he was like, you jacking off to another man's success.
Like, I ain't fucking that bitch.
Dang, that's crazy.
God.
Oh, my God.
I'm jacking off to watching another man's success.
I'm not doing this.
It is kind of crazy, huh?
When you think about that.
When you think about it, it's psychotic in nature.
And then you got to hide and sneak to do it.
Oh.
They got some people probably just go do it publicly, but.
I ain't doing that.
You got to sneak and do it.
Yeah, I sneak and do it.
And then under the guise of, I'm having me time.
Yeah.
But then after you do it, you feel guilty.
You feel horrible.
Like, damn, why I did that?
Because that was precious life for us.
I just wasted on somebody else's success.
God dang it.
Listen, I've been there.
I've been there.
I know about it, so I've been there.
And what was the thing that got you out of that?
Like, how are you able to stop that specifically?
I took baby steps.
I was like, I'm only going to release on Fridays.
Okay.
Shabbat shaboom, huh?
And I started saying, well, maybe this is my creative energy.
When you release your life force, that's your creative energy.
So I'm not going to release my creative energy.
Like, when you boxing, are you preparing for a fight?
While I'm working on this album, I ain't going to release no semen.
Or while I'm doing this, I ain't going to release.
And it just, I became better and better and better.
But it was baby steps.
I ain't just start off just saying cold turkey.
But by the time, it was like, man.
It's seeming as babies in it, which is crazy.
Yeah, if I ain't getting no.
And you're taking baby steps.
Yeah, if I ain't getting no pussy, that's wrong.
If I ain't getting no pussy shit, I ain't no shit.
Yeah, what am I doing?
I can wait.
Yeah, I can wait.
That's the thing.
It's just that relationship with yourself, you know?
And having conversations with yourself.
Like, what am I doing?
What would I really like to do?
And then how do I get through this?
You respect yourself different.
Yeah, your integrity changes a lot.
Like, I respect myself different now that I only play around like that.
Yeah.
I respect myself different now.
And when you show up, people can see.
Here's the funny thing.
People can see the integrity you have for yourself.
You know what people tell me?
They say, your aura is big.
I'm like, I don't know why.
And they were like, what kind of practices do you do?
And I say, I practice semen retention.
Yeah.
It's my precious life force.
And they was like, that's what it is.
You have a glow.
That's bad.
Yeah.
What's that semen?
Damn.
It's your life force.
Oh, yeah.
It's everything you are.
It's your truth.
It's your script.
Yes.
It's your, I mean, that is, and it's not even your script.
It's a script of all your ancestors.
Just wasting it in a sock.
And you, yeah, you blasting it out here in a dang church sock, too, at times.
God.
Oh, my God.
I forgive myself.
Yeah, you're right, man.
Because sometimes I'll have that shame feeling.
All the misfires.
I forgive myself.
Yeah.
We learn from our mistakes.
We move on.
But somebody needed to hear this.
No, I think somebody did today.
And I think, you know what?
I think it's like we need more leaders in the community to say things like that.
We have to get, I don't know.
We got to do something.
Something has to start to be different, I feel like.
The greatest teachers teach without teaching.
Yeah, you're right.
The greatest teachers teach without teaching.
So when the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear.
You'll be amazed where wisdom could come from.
Yeah.
Even the homeless person standing on the street corner, the smell bad, the
person that you
would be afraid of, the person that you would look down upon, one of those
people, the wisdom
and the knowledge that they can impute, you would be amazed.
Oh, yeah.
They got bars over there.
I don't care what you do with the money.
Just here.
Yeah.
We just, we need, we got to have leaders making things cool.
You know?
I think it's why it's one, to me, and this might be, I guess I'm afraid to say
this probably
because it's probably.
Ready, set, go.
I think it's cool that, to have a black man say something about that because
black people
notoriously, I feel like, make things cool, right?
Like, people go to the black community to make something cool.
Like, you give a, you give a metal plate to somebody in a black community, the
next
end, they got a rim out of it.
You know what I'm saying?
They make things cool.
So I think to hear a black guy.
Creativity thrives in the darkness.
Okay.
Well said.
You didn't say anything wrong.
Okay, so I think to hear a black guy say that, to act certain ways, I think
that makes it
cool because we all take, I feel like a lot of culture comes from, what's cool
comes from
the black community.
Creativity thrives in the darkness.
So I just.
So you're not saying nothing wrong.
Okay.
Yeah, I think it's, yeah, makes it cool, you know?
And we need, we need things that, like, I think have moral value and integrity
to be cool.
Okay.