Welcome to Younghollywood. com. Young Hop-How. Hollywood-wood-wood-wood-wood-wood. How do you describe beatboxing? What, what would you say?

It's really tough. You know it's a, it's it's almost like a visual thing to see because like if I give someone like a beatbox CD, they're like, "Oh, that sounds like drums." That's cool. Now you're now you're a drummer? No. So, you know, it's it was tough, you know, before American Idol to like show people this is what I do. So I had to make like DVDs, you know, and come up with like cool ways to do it that way. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to come on American Idol and expose it to, you know, this suburb and culture that doesn't know what beatboxing was, you know.

So did you teach yourself or how did you first start that?

I did like subconsciously my whole life I was doing it. I grew up with, you know, Mork & Mindy and Michael Winslow of Police Academy, like all these sound effects, you know, like Mork & Mindy was like my favorite show and I was like obsessed with it when I was a kid. And so I started doing the sound effects, and then I got into cartoon characters, and then from there on I was just like, you know, filming people at like doing skates, skater and did skate videos and I was just like, "Yeah, awesome!" And then I saw someone in high school, it was a cappella group. Um, and I was just like, you can do that professionally. Like I'd heard of back in kid, like Doug E. Fresh and the Fat Boys and stuff, but I didn't I didn't get it then. So it's been subconscious. It's still subconscious like like I'll be on the street and I'll be like beatboxing subconsciously, just like, you know, I've been doing it my whole life and then people are like, "Hey, you're that dude!" Or like, I'm like, "Oh yeah, if I do this, people will like recognize me too." You almost like branded it, you know, as your own, which is really cool. People, you know, know me for it and it's awesome, you know. I it's uh, I'm very passionate for it, you know. It's not a gimmick. It's like, that's an art form that I respect and, you know, it's cool to see like five-year-olds come up to me and they they're awesome at it, you know. I'm just like, I can't wait to have kids, you know? Cuz I'm I'm like so, I'm I'm about that. I would swear I'm gonna have like twin daughters. One that beatbox, and one that like is an MC like like flow and tree a little bit, you know.

I need you to teach me to beatbox. Can you do it? Okay. All right. Let me have you take the mic.

I think women are the easiest and they're always like the most scared to beatbox. Okay. But y'all always making like like whatever, whatever, you know, you're always and it's it's just, you know, rhythm patterns. You can take any sound and turn into a thing. The easiest one I teach people is like which is cool.

Am I doing it right? Do I kind like It's like like tit almost.

Okay. Make it more of a t, like a like for like precise. So you're like kind of like blowing air instead of blowing. You're not really okay. And then then you just like. Just like that. Just like that. Just a little bit. That's I mean like you like like you can do like a you know, it's like the old that boys like you know, it's like the old so many things you can do with your voice. Um, for me, my my style is more like vocal scratching. So like like Young Hollywood, like yo, you know, stuff like that, vocal scratching, which like stems from like doing voiceover and stuff, like Oh my god. You know, like switching from highs to lows, you know.

People are like, "What are they doing?" What are they doing? I feel like an animal doing that. I don't feel human.

Be animalistic, you know what I mean.

I don't know what that was. All I have to say is, "Oh my god." That's amazing. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.