A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo

Nicole Paris: TEDYouth, make some noise!

TEDYouth, make some [beatboxing]

(Beatboxing)

Are you ready? Are you ready?

Ed Cage: Yeah yeah yeah.

(Beatboxing)

(Laughter)

EC: Y'all like that? Well, let me show you
how we used to do it --

NP: Aw, get it pops,
get it pops. Go ahead.

EC: -- when I was growing up in the '90s.

(Beatboxing)

(Laughter)

(Beatboxing)

NP: Pops, pops, pops, pops, pops, pops,

hold up, hold up, hold up,
hold up, hold up.

Oh my God.

Okay, he's trying to battle me.

Hold on, right now, hold on.

Do you remember when you used
to beatbox me to sleep?

EC: Yeah, yeah, I remember.

That's when she was a little baby.

We would do something like this.

(Beatboxing)

NP: I remember that.

(Beatboxing)

NP: All right, pops, pops, pops,
chill out, chill out.

Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.

EC: Y'all remember the video.

This is like a little payback or something
for 50 million people

calling me the loser. Naw.

NP: Hold up, hold up.

But a lot of people out there
don't really know what beatboxing is.

They don't know where it started from.
EC: Right, right.

NP: Where it came from.
EC: Right.

NP: So why don't you give them
a little history, just a tickle,

bit of history of where it comes from.

EC: Just a tickle. Beatbox started
here in New York.

(Cheers)

That's right, that's right.
New York, New York!

Everybody like, yeah.
Well we from St. Louis.

(Laughter)

NP: Y'all can put your hands down.

EC: But beatbox started here in New York.

What you would have is,
when we would go to parties,

you would have the DJ
and you would have the rapper,

but because I don't have
electricity coming out of me,

we had to emulate
what the beats was doing.

So when you would see the beatboxer,
you would see us over to the side,

and you would see a rapper,
and when the rapper began to rap,

we would do a simple beat,
because back then the beats were simple.

(Beatboxing)

Or, (Beatboxing).

Those were simple beats.

But now, you got folks that want
to do all type of stuff

with they beats now,

and they want to humiliate they father,

which is not right when you want
to humiliate the person

that take care of you,
pay all your tuition,

especially when you have 50 million people

that just go around
and call you the loser.

Well, I'm taking that to heart.

But now we do something
different in our house,

so we have these jam sessions,

and our jam sessions consist of us
jamming in church.

You know, while in church,
we'll look at each other and go,

(Beatboxing),

and we'll text the beat to each other.

Or we'll be in the kitchen cooking,

road trips, airports.

NP: In a corner, standing right there
in the corner, saying, aw Dad, listen.

(Beatboxing)

Naw, listen, I'm kidding.
But you know what?

We're talking all about
this jam session and everything.

EC: Yeah.
NP: Why don't we give them a little peak,

just a tiny bit of our jam session.

Y'all want to hear some jam session?
EC: Y'all ready for a jam session.

(Cheers)
NP: I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

(Cheers)

Yeah. Kick it, pops!

(Beatboxing)

(Applause)

(Beatboxing)

Burn up my soul.

(Beatboxing)

(Applause)

I'm just ready to go.
EC: Y'all ready?

Everybody stand up.
Come on, everybody stand up.

Get on up. Come on, stretch.

(Beatboxing)

NP: That's it.

Thank you. Make some noise!
Make some noise! Make some noise!

Thank you.
(Applause)