Translator: Emmanuelle ROQUES Reviewer: Elisabeth Buffard
Are you ok ? No that won't do.
Are you ok TEDx ?!
Ok, that's much better.
Thanks.
So I am Beasty and
I am a beatboxer I have been practicing for 7 years
Beatboxing is one of the 5 elements of hip hop,
together with beatmaking,
there is dance, scratch ...
and rap and all the rest,
dancing on your head, etc...
I make music with my mouth and everything started for me
when the first beatboxer I was listening to was
in 2005, something like that, but beatboxing
itself started in the 80's
so we are going to go back in time;
here is my DeLorean
So
The 80's..
crazy stuff
the 80's
So the first precursor to human beatbox for me
Biz Markie ... Biz Markie ... from NYC
a good NY guy Big guy...
An he makes sounds like this...
A little later...
Here we go
It's Doug E. Fresh
So Doug E. Fresh
He invented that sound, It's called a click roll.
Beat box basics
so it went like this, a little melody...
Later again, we step the game up,
I discovered Rahzel,
his nickname is
« the godfather of noise »
again, it comes from NYC
and it goes like this...
Now it's up one step,
and then he invented something crazy,
I don't know how he came up with it he thought "Rhythm is cool"
but then the singers
we are a bit jealous of the singers, we should push ourselves forward
so he thought
why don't we put in some lyrics at the same time as the beat
Why not?
so he did a cover
of Alia, it's RNB
so the lyrics are ...
So...
with that voice, he made an intro in that style,
Let me do it for you.
Ladies and Gentleman,
One man. One desire. He wants to save the world
The beat the chorus
at the same time
Thanks for them
So this is the real basis of it all
then a rather « new school » style arised.
Kenny Muhammad, also American,
Kenny Muhammad,
he is my master, the master of masters
when I heard this guy I went "whoa"!
For me, he is the most technical of all
so here is a little demo of Kenny,
Kenny Muhammad
so
today,
in beatboxing, there is
the competition, that where I started:
we usually go crazy,
we try to set a maximum of sounds in
as little time as possible, we try to go as fast as possible
something like that, I'll do it at slow motion
slow motion
the goal is to set it in a beat
so drum roll
on a beat like this...
Thanks thanks .... wait
Wait wait ... keep standing
ok you see my muscles
I am the bouncer and here is my nightclub
from the inside
you hear that
you are in the waiting line
and
if you want to go in my nightclub you will have to make a noise
never heard at TEDx Ok let's go!
I like to move it
you like to .... Audience : move it!
Thanks!