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I'm Pops, the mentor.
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And I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm Nicole Paris, the apprentice.
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Beatboxing is just simply making sounds with your mouth.
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Making music with your mouth.
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When beatboxing came to St. Louis in the early 80s, it was always about emulating what the DJ did.
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So I just thought of perfecting my skill as I got older, and then, my wife, she gets pregnant with Nicole.
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So I would beatbox up against the belly, and Nicole would start twisting, so you would see my wife's belly almost like...
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She liked it. She thought it was funny and cute.
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And then, as Nicole got bigger in the belly, it wasn't cute no more.
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At the age of 13, was my first talent show.
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I just went home and I said, "Pops, I just joined a talent show."
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"You're going to teach me how to beatbox."
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He taught me how to hold a mic, taught me how to breath, taught me the basic beats.
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I went to the talent show and did that.
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They made me mad at the talent show. They was clapping off-beat.
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And they was like...
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I then started to add my own thing to what he taught me.
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One night, I came home from work, and as I'm walking in the door...
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I heard her making all these strange noises.
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I had to tell her, like, "That's not beatboxing."
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"Nah, don't do that. That's corny."
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I was like, "What?"
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This is when I had to realize and tell myself, "Look, this is what she wants to do."
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Me and Pops, we beatbox anywhere, all day.
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It don't even make a difference.
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No, it really don't.
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We beatbox while cooking, barbershop...
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When we ready to beatbox, it literally...
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It happens.
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It doesn't matter.
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If you go to her YouTube channel, you will see us sitting down, beatboxing, and to some folks, it can look like a competition.
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We're not really battling, it's just ...
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It's just jam sessions, just us having fun.
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This is how I bond with my child, even though 160 million people will be like, "Pops, you lost."
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"Pop, loser!"
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I want her to be the best.
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I want her to, to outdo me.
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Not in outdo me, like, as in a battle, but I want her to just, just continue to grow and add to beatboxing.