1 00:00:00,717 --> 00:00:02,714 Nicole Paris: TEDYouth, make some noise! 2 00:00:02,738 --> 00:00:04,619 (Beatboxing) 3 00:00:04,643 --> 00:00:06,144 TEDYouth, make some -- 4 00:00:06,168 --> 00:00:07,918 (Beatboxing) 5 00:00:28,216 --> 00:00:30,216 (Beatboxing ends) 6 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:32,353 Are you ready? 7 00:00:32,377 --> 00:00:33,631 (Cheers and applause) 8 00:00:33,655 --> 00:00:34,820 Are you ready? 9 00:00:35,956 --> 00:00:37,356 Ed Cage: Yeah, yeah, yeah! 10 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:40,514 (Beatboxing) 11 00:00:44,097 --> 00:00:45,572 (Laughter) 12 00:00:45,596 --> 00:00:48,414 EC: Y'all like that? Let me show you how we used to do it -- 13 00:00:48,438 --> 00:00:49,691 NP: Get it pops, go ahead. 14 00:00:49,715 --> 00:00:51,730 EC: ... when I was growing up in the '90s. 15 00:00:52,107 --> 00:00:53,869 (Beatboxing) 16 00:00:56,765 --> 00:00:58,765 (Beatboxing ends) 17 00:01:00,675 --> 00:01:02,408 (Laughter) 18 00:01:02,432 --> 00:01:07,471 (Beatboxing) 19 00:01:15,912 --> 00:01:17,825 NP: Pops, pops, pops, pops, pops, pops, 20 00:01:17,849 --> 00:01:19,842 hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. 21 00:01:19,866 --> 00:01:22,127 Oh my God. 22 00:01:22,151 --> 00:01:23,692 OK, he's trying to battle me. 23 00:01:23,716 --> 00:01:25,858 Hold on, right now, hold on. 24 00:01:25,882 --> 00:01:29,871 Do you remember when you used to beatbox me to sleep? 25 00:01:29,895 --> 00:01:31,324 EC: Yeah, yeah, I remember. 26 00:01:31,348 --> 00:01:33,901 That's when she was a little baby. 27 00:01:33,925 --> 00:01:35,467 We would do something like this. 28 00:01:35,491 --> 00:01:38,490 (Beatboxing) 29 00:01:44,273 --> 00:01:45,720 NP: I remember that. 30 00:01:45,744 --> 00:01:47,697 (Beatboxing) 31 00:01:56,008 --> 00:01:58,761 NP: All right, pops, pops, pops, chill out, chill out. 32 00:01:58,785 --> 00:02:00,273 Hold up, hold up, hold up. 33 00:02:00,297 --> 00:02:01,686 EC: Y'all remember the video. 34 00:02:01,710 --> 00:02:03,890 This is like a little payback or something 35 00:02:03,914 --> 00:02:06,413 for 50 million people calling me the loser. 36 00:02:06,437 --> 00:02:07,795 NP: Hold up, hold up. 37 00:02:07,819 --> 00:02:10,978 But a lot of people out there don't really know what beatboxing is, 38 00:02:11,002 --> 00:02:12,525 where it started from. 39 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:13,700 EC: Right, right. 40 00:02:13,724 --> 00:02:14,917 NP: Where it came from. 41 00:02:14,941 --> 00:02:17,298 NP: So why don't you give them a little history -- 42 00:02:17,322 --> 00:02:20,013 just a tickle -- a bit of history of where it comes from. 43 00:02:20,037 --> 00:02:21,894 EC: Beatbox started here in New York. 44 00:02:21,918 --> 00:02:23,069 (Cheers) 45 00:02:23,093 --> 00:02:26,580 That's right, that's right. New York, New York! 46 00:02:26,604 --> 00:02:28,231 Everybody like, "Yeah!" 47 00:02:28,255 --> 00:02:29,745 Well, we from St. Louis. 48 00:02:29,769 --> 00:02:30,787 (Laughter) 49 00:02:30,811 --> 00:02:32,931 NP: Now you can put y'all hands down. 50 00:02:32,955 --> 00:02:34,254 (Laughter) 51 00:02:34,278 --> 00:02:36,255 EC: But beatbox started here in New York. 52 00:02:36,279 --> 00:02:38,970 What you would have is that, when we would go to parties, 53 00:02:38,994 --> 00:02:41,470 you would have the DJ and you would have the rapper. 54 00:02:41,494 --> 00:02:44,237 But because I don't have electricity coming out of me, 55 00:02:44,261 --> 00:02:47,386 we had to emulate what the beats was doing. 56 00:02:47,410 --> 00:02:50,003 So when you would see the beatboxer, 57 00:02:50,027 --> 00:02:51,963 you would see us over to the side. 58 00:02:51,987 --> 00:02:54,913 Then you would see a rapper, and when the rapper began to rap, 59 00:02:54,937 --> 00:02:56,191 we would do a simple beat, 60 00:02:56,215 --> 00:02:58,237 because back then the beats were simple -- 61 00:02:58,261 --> 00:03:03,122 (Beatboxing) 62 00:03:03,146 --> 00:03:04,297 or -- 63 00:03:04,321 --> 00:03:10,017 (Beatboxing) 64 00:03:10,041 --> 00:03:11,868 Those were simple beats. 65 00:03:11,892 --> 00:03:16,294 But now, you got folks that want to do all type of stuff 66 00:03:16,318 --> 00:03:17,535 with their beats now, 67 00:03:17,559 --> 00:03:19,948 and they want to humiliate their father, 68 00:03:19,972 --> 00:03:23,222 which is not right when you want to humiliate the person 69 00:03:23,246 --> 00:03:26,112 that take care of you, pay all your tuition, (Nicole laughs) 70 00:03:26,136 --> 00:03:28,523 especially when you have 50 million people 71 00:03:28,547 --> 00:03:30,664 that just go around and call you "the loser." 72 00:03:30,688 --> 00:03:32,593 Well, I'm taking that to heart. 73 00:03:32,617 --> 00:03:34,825 But now we do something different in our house, 74 00:03:34,849 --> 00:03:36,750 so we have these jam sessions, 75 00:03:36,774 --> 00:03:41,008 and our jam sessions consist of us jamming in church. 76 00:03:41,032 --> 00:03:43,465 You know, in church, we'll look at each other like, 77 00:03:43,489 --> 00:03:44,640 (Beatboxing), 78 00:03:44,664 --> 00:03:45,665 (Laughter) 79 00:03:45,689 --> 00:03:47,527 and we'll text the beat to each other. 80 00:03:48,018 --> 00:03:50,387 Or we'll be in the kitchen cooking, 81 00:03:50,411 --> 00:03:52,214 road trips, airports. 82 00:03:52,690 --> 00:03:55,964 NP: Standing right there in the corner, "Aw, Dad -- listen to that." 83 00:03:55,988 --> 00:03:57,176 (Beatboxing) 84 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,185 Naw, I'm kidding. But you know what? 85 00:03:59,852 --> 00:04:03,055 We're talking all about this jam session and everything. 86 00:04:03,079 --> 00:04:04,229 EC: Yeah. 87 00:04:04,253 --> 00:04:08,750 NP: Why don't we give them a little peek, just a tiny bit of our jam session? 88 00:04:08,774 --> 00:04:12,316 NP: Y'all want to hear some jam session? EC: Y'all ready for a jam session? 89 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:13,341 (Cheers) 90 00:04:13,365 --> 00:04:14,710 NP: Sorry? I can't hear you. 91 00:04:14,734 --> 00:04:15,735 (Cheers) 92 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:16,910 Yeah! Kick it, pops! 93 00:04:16,934 --> 00:04:19,576 (Beatboxing) 94 00:05:18,382 --> 00:05:21,826 (Applause) 95 00:05:27,854 --> 00:05:29,877 (Beatboxing) 96 00:05:48,995 --> 00:05:50,995 (Beatboxing ends) 97 00:05:52,958 --> 00:05:57,239 (Applause) 98 00:05:57,263 --> 00:05:58,621 NP: I'm getting ready to go! 99 00:05:58,645 --> 00:06:01,752 EC: Y'all ready? Everybody stand up! Come on, everybody stand up! 100 00:06:01,776 --> 00:06:04,470 Get on up! Come on, stretch! 101 00:06:04,494 --> 00:06:07,761 (Beatboxing) 102 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:35,500 (Beatboxing ends) 103 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:37,893 NP: That's it. 104 00:06:37,917 --> 00:06:41,039 (Cheers and applause) 105 00:06:41,063 --> 00:06:42,366 Thank you! Make some noise! 106 00:06:42,390 --> 00:06:43,588 EG: Thank you, everybody! 107 00:06:43,612 --> 00:06:45,492 NP: Make some noise! Make some noise! 108 00:06:45,516 --> 00:06:46,667 Thank you! 109 00:06:46,691 --> 00:06:47,905 (Applause)