{"id":456,"date":"2007-03-14T02:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/456"},"modified":"2007-03-14T02:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T09:53:26","slug":"black-is-the-new-pink-beatboxing-is-the-new-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Black is the new pink. Beatboxing is the new DJ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure when this emerging pattern of beatboxing began (and I mean the recent upswing in visibility, not its 80s roots – I miss The Fat Boys), but it’s about to reach a critical mass I think. I’m not prone to predictions, but I think within the next year, if not the next few months, beatboxing is about to blow up. Follow my train of thought, won’t you.<\/p>\n

Most recently, as in today, Xeni at BoingBoing posts about a French boxer<\/a> on their version of American Idol (wait, did American Idol come first?) – Joseph blew away the judges, but I’m not sure that he made it on the show. You have to sing, after all.<\/p>\n

I found this amusing, as I’d just stumbled upon a boxer trying out for the Australian Idol show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My journey from not-paying-attention to trading links with Xeni started a couple of months back when I discovered a YouTube video for Biz Markie’s Turn the Party Out. Song, fucking, rules. And I had to buy an expensive hip hop sampler CD to get a better version, but it was worth it.
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\nOh sure, he doesn’t box on it, but it got me thinking, and then searching for more. YouTube proved to be a wealth of data.<\/p>\n

For starters, I discovered Shlomo, a top-ranking UK boxer. Besides backing up Bjork on her vocals-only album, Medulla (human drum kits are fair game, you see) and starting humanbeatbox.com<\/a> (you know it’s serious when they start self-organizing), he’s toured the world and wowwed them on TV<\/a> over the last few years.<\/p>\n

It was exactly while I was absorbing all this that I got a link forwarded to me by a friend.
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\nIf the YouTube comments are any indication, not only has it been watched a lot, it’s getting handed around like Paris Hilton’s hacked blackberry pics.<\/p>\n

Since I love a good sense of humour, I instantly aligned myself with Beardyman in whatever bid for world domination he makes. Check out his homepage and have a listen to him on a recent morning radio interview (it’ll auto-play for you.) Just insane.<\/a><\/p>\n

And if that wasn’t enough, I send Beardyman onto another friend, who in turn tells me he saw Masi Oka (Hiro of Heroes fame) on Conan O’Brien, where he admits to be a beatboxer, and then proceeds to prove it<\/a> (got to 4:40 into the clip.)<\/p>\n

And then it smacks me between the eyes – I’ve seen the pilot episode of Yo Gabba Gabba and the show, due to air on Nick Jr. this fall, has a regular segment called Biz’s Beat of the Day<\/a>, wherein Biz Markie teaches kids to rock the party that rocks the par-tee (and bug the shit out of their parents.)<\/p>\n

Why yes, I did email all this to Xeni – who says you can’t give things a little shove in order fulfill your own predictions? Let’s watch, shall we?<\/p>\n

My name is Chris, and I love to dance. Boom-ch-boomboom-chick. Boom-ch-boomboom-chick.<\/p>\n

Remember, you heard it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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