Mr.Soul has presented an enthralling performance. Here's the deal: percussion by itself quickly gets boring--used with any melodic component, it can be edge-of-your-seat, WTF-just happened? thrilling. And percussion is percussion, no matter how it's produced. Time-keeping by itself is OK but the better beatboxers (like masters of any medium) are so much more
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In case anybody posits that this refined skill is confined to a bunch of pants-at-half-mast funky Black youths (you know those stereotypes) or mouth-musicians who are rigidly confined, here's solid proof the other way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbT8cG-YPA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVRBM2j9Vs << a phrase like "Freaking amazing!" may pop in your head--go ahead with that. Finally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0rG-3RuMo << not a 1-trick pony and certainly not a joke.