- It's like,
"do I turn all crazy right now?
Do I act cool?"
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(typewriter clicking)
Yo, waddup, this is Myles Yachts,
and this is "I Went Viral."
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- The song is about,
Yeah, it's about feeling good when you walk through,
when you walk through some team,
just, how you're feeling as a person.
Overall, a song of making people feel good about themselves.
I actually posted the dance,
late at night,
and I woke up the next morning,
and it was like, 330 some thousand views on TikTok.
And I was like, "wait,
did this just really happened?"
And, yeah. Come to find out it actually happened. So, yeah.
A few celebrities that did the "Walk Through" challenge was
Kelly Rowland,
we had Tia Mowry.
Yeah, my homeboy, Twitch.
He's also one of 'em.
He performed it on Ellen.
He actually did the challenge a few times,
and then he did it on Ellen,
and I was like, "nah. he leveled up on that one."
So my story and,
and how long I've been in music was about,
I'd say over 15, almost 20 years.
My dad's an actual producer, so,
I would always sit in the studio,
you know, and just watch him produce for other artists.
And then my brother, he's also a rap artist,
and I would listen to him freestyle rap
with my partners in the hood.
And yeah, I just, I don't know,
I just picked it up.
Once I left and started my career for dance.
I started picking music back up,
slowly but for surely, like,
five years of me living in LA.
I started dancing around 2005.
I was in high school, and yeah,
it just something that I thought was cool,
and I saw a lot of people doing it,
and yeah, I wanted to be cool, just like them.
So, I started practicing on it.
And got good at it pretty quick too,
and once I found out, you know,
I had the confidence to feel I could do it elsewhere,
you know, like I could take it to California.
And so I did, and yeah,
13 years later I've been hired.
You know, I'm from Memphis originally.
And how I ended up in LA was that,
I ended up coming out to California
for a dance competition,
with this agency called This New Talent.
And that's when I first got, you know,
the experience of being it, in California.
And that's pretty much how the journey began.
Started street performing
on Third Street Promenade, on Santa Monica.
And that's how we made our money,
until we started booking actual commercial jobs.
So, the dance style that, that kinda broke off
with the "Walk Through" challenge,
it was more like a little bit of gangsta-walking,
but also just a little bit of swag of my own.
It was just, how I'm feeling it,
the wordplay of the song, you know.
But mainly, it branched off from Jookin's Gangsta Walk.
Memphis Jookin is a freestyle based dance,
which was originated in Memphis, Tennessee.
And it goes back all the way back to the early eighties,
And, it was just a dance style that evolved,
started off with gangsta-walking.
Shout out to all the gangster-walking pioneers out there.
And yeah, they created a style of dance
that really evolved with movement.
Like, intricate footwork,
waving, gliding.
Times 10, on the gliding.
Toe spins.
And yeah, it was just,
it's so much within Jookin.
The history goes way back.
I think the music that I'm gonna continue to do
is gonna be a little bit of challenges.
But , also, I'm gonna give you different sides
because I'm pretty well rounded
when it comes down to creating music.
I love writing RnB music,
so you'll be getting some of that.
I like writing conscious hip-hop songs,
So, you're gonna get some of that.
Trap, more trap.
Yeah. Just like a whole collaboration of,-
but I just wanna make sure,
they all lead in a great line after each other.
I've actually written for some artists,
shout out Brie (inaudible),
shout out Baby Blue.
I've written for some female artists, RnB songs.
And they're actually really dope.
I think the goal, was really just, yeah,
just to do me, and just have fun.
Because I feel like,
I released some songs before,
"Babbage, Michael Jackson, Boss Moves."
And I have to realize that, I'm a dancer also.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's like, "why don't I create a song,
create a dance to it, and dance to it?"
And I think, because I finally did that,
it popped off.
And that was like, "that's what I was to be doing"
Uh, "who is Myles Yachts?"
Myles Yachts it's just,
a huge ball of energy.
That has many talents.
And I just like to utilize my talents
on an everyday basis,
whether it's me being silly,
on an off camera,
dancing, creating,
and just, you know, I love to make music.
I love to, just sit and freestyle,
and yeah, I don't know,
just hanging out with my guys,
and just creating, pretty much,
on a everyday basis.
"How life changed for me?"
Ever since the song went viral,
it's been really good.
I've been getting a lot of record labels reaching out,
a lot of people want me to come their club.
Club appearances, club performances.
A lot of people, influencers,
want to do the challenge with me.
And yeah, it just motivates me to,
get ready for the next one.
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