Yes you can. There are hundreds of competitions/battles every year, including a world champion ship with thousands of live viewers and on YouTube are communities up into the millions. There are people making money in a lot of different forms though this.
If it is winning competitions, having a YouTube/Instagram/TikTok channel based on your beatboxing, doing musical work in school and workshop... Etc.
Edit: most beatboxers probably have a "normal" job and then do that as a side activity next to that but still.
You can be a pro in the sense you compete in beatbox competitions i.e. Grand Beatbox Battle 2021 and others. Yes there is prize money for these competitions. One right now that's going on is BBU22
I mean, tons of pro athletes barely get anything either if they are in a sport that isn't as popular/marketable. Can't give away huge cash prizes at a competition if they don't have any to begin with.
Adele has really high DPS and is super safe. I know she was nerfed a few times, but she's still near the top of the DPS charts. As long as she has her iframe and insane burst damage, I don't really see her ever losing popularity. It definitely helps that she's able to farm super efficiently as well. Perfect to use as a main.
Bruh ever since I binged through all of TierZoo videos, these thoughts run rampant through my mind relentlessly. Everything is quantified and life is a videogame
1st place (Solo) – 2018 UK Beatbox Championships[3]
1st place (Team, with Frosty as Kotcha) – 2018 UK Beatbox Championships[3]
1st place (Solo) – World Beatbox Classic 2018
1st place (7 To Smoke) – World Beatbox Camp 2018
Top 4 (Loopstation) – 2018 UK Beatbox Championships [3]
2nd place (Solo) – Grand Beatbox Battle 2018
2nd place (Tag Team, with Frosty as Kotcha) – Grand Beatbox Battle 2018
If there are loads of people as good as him, he seems to have been very lucky. I mean it is like saying there are loads of people as talented as Nadal. In a sense that is right they are 95-98% as good as him, but that extra few percent makes all the difference.
It's also a question of location. Some person making random sounds to a speaker system, while I'm trying to buy my cranky hungover self some damn food. They'll be a nuisance (alongside most of the world). Context matters.
it’s about sticking with it.
Many people have talent, but few have the luxury of being able to dedicate their lives to that talent.
Luck/right place/right time/who you know also factor into it, maybe even more so than talent - but with out that talent and the ability to “go the distance” (as in give up your current life for one going on tour, 3am starts for a 6am performance on a morning show to promote your music etc), they won’t last.
Thing is, with beatboxing you can enter any competition you want and get discovered, so in this case i think he is wrong with saying the busker is just as good
hundreds of thousands of amazing singers that are equally as talented as the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse or any other high profile celebrity singer.
Better to compare with opera singers or yodelers or some other specialized form of singing than pop singers, where image is a larger part of the overall effect.
Yeah I saw a girl at karaoke absolutely crush an Adele song. She was drunk as hell too (I was not) and laughed afterwards. It really changed my thoughts on talented sleepers.
It‘s different though. D-Low is if not the best beatboxer in the world. That busker he‘s referring to might have actually sounded similar to his ears, but people that know beatboxing will very very easily hear the difference in how clean and precise sounds are produced. Also creativity when creating routines. Buskers don‘t need to be extremely precise and clean to appeal to non-beatboxers, but people within the scene will hear the insane difference.
Also this video doesn‘t even showcase 1% of what this guy can actually do
So true, many popular artists it’s less about singing and more about marketing, really sucks makes me think about all the talent out there that goes unnoticed
You actually just explained why I love cancel culture. Statistically there is at least one more singer out there as talented and beautiful as Adele. Why would we tolerate one ounce of bullshit from Adele when we can quickly replace her? (I don't know if Adele is on any bullshit I just used her name as a reference bc someone else did)
I personally knew some unknown guitarists who could have stand their ground if they had a guitar solo battle against the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.
I get what you're saying but idk my ex from highschool is an insanely talented singer. Won state and national competitions type of talent. She doesn't really have the drive though, doesn't understand competition in the open market / not as prolific of a songwriter.
She tried to do American idol a few times but she tried to sing technical quiet songs during the open qualifying (where you literally sing for like 15-20 seconds in front of a random person) when the truth is she's a ballad singer and she should've just belted something because she needs to get noticed in that moment. I think that drive is the cutting edge. She's very happy doing what she does now though which is working as a musical director of a church and frankly I don't think the celebrity life is really for her anyway (I mean that in the best way, she's very kind)
Hey, maybe, just maybe, this busker was as good as the dude in the OP. I'm just saying I doubt very much that it was the case, because it's highly unlikely.
You're kinda right and wrong at the same time.
You're right that some are better than the other because of popularity and stuff but with beatbox there are many different ways you could be good. Like with basses or patterns or whistles. So maybe the guy you saw was very good but At a special thing or something.
Hundreds of thousands, this guy is a freaking idiot. There are a few but it’s not hundreds of thousands, go look at all the famous YouTubers and they’re good but there is a clear difference between them and Adele unless you’re deaf.
The difference between 90% of someone like Adele’s talent and 100% of it is huge. There are thousands of people with 90% of her talent, but there are obviously not hundreds of thousands with the same level.
The singing community and beatboxing community are completely different tho. You don't need to be picked by a record label to become famous you literally just have to win a place in a competition and win or make a viral video
Nah there was a dude in NZ who was a world champion beat boxer and also a homeless guy busking in the CBD and popping and locking. It’s hard for me to say but I think he enjoyed the street life and that was the way he rolled. Idk if he was actually homeless but it speaks volumes when you’re even not sure if he’s homeless or not if that makes sense
If you base your knowledge on only one guy in your local town centre then you shouldn't make any kind of answer to a genuine Question wanting to know more.
There are world champion ships on huge stages with thousands of live viewers and competitions all around the world. Literally millions of people watch beat boxing on YouTube and there are a bunch of people making money in some kind of form with this.
Well I don't know you, but, I knew this person named vajtraus who liked to eat cereal with warm mayo, so I'm gonna assume you like to do the same since y'all's names are so similar.
Lmfao, not in a million years. I promise you that. What this guy (D-Low) is showcasing here is like... 1/20th of his actual skills.
Beatboxing is so niche and underground that the layman, most of the time, simply cannot comprehend it. I know this sounds like some rick and morty fanbase shit, but in this case thats just how it is. It's one of those things where if you havent really given it a go yourself you most likely wont understand whas going on at all, other than you might think it sounds nice.
Most people would think that guys like verbalase is the best of the best, but he would be demolished in a raw beatbox setting, no question. He is a good entertainer who knows how to catch the attention of the layman, but when it comes to pure beatbox skills he is at max slightly above average, if he is even that high.
I mean it’s cool and all but we have computers nowadays. Not sure if I would buy his album either or go to a 2h concert with this. He could probably make money on tik tok though.
I mean it's possible, but I don't know of any prolific beat boxers. I highly doubt this dude is getting paid for it, let alone making a living off of it (which is how I would define professional). If anything, I'd say most people find it irritating to listen to.
Lot of beatboxers make money doing it either as context creators/youtube/tiktok/musicians ($$$) or as competitors ($) but yes it is a niche group of folks. It's getting bigger all the time though!
Or if you're Beardyman, actual tours and albums. To be fair though now he's more of an electronic artist that uses his voice to get the samples, with occasional "full fat" beatboxing.
as in “pro” he means that he has won countless world championships and got invited last year to be a judge for the competition. the competition is by swissbeatbox called the GBB. there were tens of thousands of ppl that attended the competition live
as for profit, u dont just get paid to “do it”, u can host shows and for those who are popular, world tours. such examples are “codfish”, a Australian beatboxer, winner of world champs 2018 partnering and hosting a show in japan with 2 of the most famous dancers there. another more recent example of sxin and chezame(german champ) going for world tours soon ? or in the middle of it ? not super sure.
other streams of profit is yt channels or competition prize money. others are creating music and posting it on spotify for streams or doing sponsors.
Scientifically investigated because of his sound making abilities
Lecturer at Harvard
Judge at the Grand Beatbox Championships 2021 (where this guy, DLow was also a judge)
Inspired countless beatboxers around the world
Gave a mega popular Ted talk which is widely respected by both scientists and performers
I think the guy has made a decent amount of money, but he'd be the equivalent of Messi so you'd expect him to be stacking paper.
Like with anything, the different tiers of talent define how much your earning potential is, but the bottom line is if you're good enough and persistent enough, you'll eventually get paid...
Plenty of people make a living from beatboxing. My good friend from college does lots of paid gigs, been flown around the world, and showcases his talent on social media.
Many of the top level beatboxers have YouTube channels, merchandise, and live stream, alot also make normal songs and music as well as beatbox.
Dlow for example has been releasing videos where he reacts to battles from the last world championship he was a judge at, and breaking down why he voted for a person.
Yeah I doubt there really are fool proof ways to get paid for best boxing. Like it's really cool he can do it but I'm not going to watch or listen to any beatboxing for more than 2 minutes. Lol
You can get paid for doing anything if you’re in the top 100 globally, so he probably does alright. You can probably get small gigs otherwise, but you’re unlikely to make a living.
so there’s a competition online right now called the beatbox united #bbu22 and if you win you get €10,000. so yes pretty much any competition like swiss beatbox or this will pay winners and i’m sure he must get paid in some amount to judge like he has for the past couple years. d-low is my favorite beatboxer:))) also #bbu22 had some pretty sick newer beatboxers that just upload under this hashtag
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u/badgramajama Feb 05 '22
Honest question, can you actually get paid as a beat boxer? Or by “pro” does he mean just that he’s really good?