ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nicole Paris and Ed Cage - Beatboxers
Father-daughter beatboxing duo Nicole Paris and Ed Cage mix beats across generations.

Why you should listen

Nicole Paris, a beatbox artist and musician, gained notoriety and millions of fans when a YouTube battle against her mentor and father, Ed Cage, went viral within hours of its release.

Mixing current EDM (electronic dance music) sound, vibrant energy and passion to create new and unique beats, her freestyle instantly garnered worldwide acclaim and interest. Sparring live on ABC’s Good Morning America and the CBS Late, Late Show with James Corden, she was crowned the new face of beatbox by popular vote with Doug E. Fresh, Rahzel and other well-known beatboxers, hailing her natural talent. 

More profile about the speaker
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TEDYouth 2015

Nicole Paris and Ed Cage: A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo

Nicole Paris e Ed Cage: Uma lição de "beatbox" por um duo de pai e filha

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Nicole Paris foi criada para ser uma "beatboxer". Quando ela era pequena, seu pai, Ed Cage, costumava fazer beatbox para ela dormir. Agora o duo é conhecido por suas batalhas de beatbox e jam sessions, que misturam batidas clássicas do rap com sons de música eletrônica. Prepare-se para aprender um pouco da história do hip-hop e aproveite o show.
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Nicole Paris: TEDYouth, make some noise!
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Nicole Paris: TEDYouth,
vamos fazer barulho!
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(Beatboxing)
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(Beatbox)
TEDYouth, vamos fazer...
00:16
TEDYouth, make some --
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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(Beatboxing ends)
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(Fim do beatbox)
00:43
Are you ready?
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Estão prontos?
00:44
(Cheers and applause)
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(Vivas e aplausos)
00:45
Are you ready?
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Estão prontos?
Ed Cage: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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Ed Cage: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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00:55
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
EC: Gostaram disso?
00:57
EC: Y'all like that? Let me show you
how we used to do it --
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Vou mostrar como eu fazia...
NP: Vai lá, pai, vai firme.
01:00
NP: Get it pops, go ahead.
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01:01
EC: ... when I was growing up in the '90s.
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EC: ...quando estava crescendo,
nos anos 90.
(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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01:09
(Beatboxing ends)
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(Fim de beatbox)
01:12
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
01:14
(Beatboxing)
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(Beatbox)
01:27
NP: Pops, pops, pops, pops, pops, pops,
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NP: Pai, pai, pai, pai, pai...
segura, segura, segura!
01:29
hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up!
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Ai, meu Deus.
01:31
Oh my God.
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Certo, ele está me desafiando.
01:34
OK, he's trying to battle me.
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01:35
Hold on, right now, hold on.
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Espera, tá bem, espera.
Você se lembra de quando fazia
beatbox pra eu dormir?
01:37
Do you remember when you used
to beatbox me to sleep?
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EC: Sim, sim, eu me lembro.
Isso foi quando ela era bebezinho.
01:41
EC: Yeah, yeah, I remember.
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That's when she was a little baby.
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Nós fazíamos algo do tipo...
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We would do something like this.
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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01:56
NP: I remember that.
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NP: Eu me lembro disso.
01:57
(Beatboxing)
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(Beatbox)
02:08
NP: All right, pops, pops, pops,
chill out, chill out.
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NP: Tá bem, pai, pai, pai! Calma, calma.
Segura, segura, segura.
02:10
Hold up, hold up, hold up.
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EC: Vocês se lembram do vídeo,
isso é tipo uma pequena retribuição
02:12
EC: Y'all remember the video.
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02:13
This is like a little payback or something
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para 50 milhões de pessoas
que me chamaram de perdedor.
02:15
for 50 million people
calling me the loser.
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NP: Segura, segura.
02:18
NP: Hold up, hold up.
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Mas muita gente não sabe
o que é beatbox,
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But a lot of people out there don't
really know what beatboxing is,
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como começou.
02:23
where it started from.
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EC: Certo, certo.
02:24
EC: Right, right.
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NP: De onde veio.
02:25
NP: Where it came from.
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Então, por que não conta
um pouco da história,
02:26
So why don't you give
them a little history --
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só um pouquinho, da história
de onde isso veio.
02:29
just a tickle -- a bit of history
of where it comes from.
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EC: Beatbox começou
aqui em Nova Iorque.
02:32
EC: Beatbox started here in New York.
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02:33
(Cheers)
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(Vivas)
Isso aí, isso aí.
Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque!
02:35
That's right, that's right.
New York, New York!
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Todo mundo: "Yeah!"
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Everybody like, "Yeah!"
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02:40
Well, we from St. Louis.
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Bem, nós somos de St. Louis.
02:41
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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NP: Now you can put y'all hands down.
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NP: Podem baixar as mãos.
(Risos)
02:44
(Laughter)
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EC: Mas beatbox começou
aqui em Nova Iorque.
02:46
EC: But beatbox started here in New York.
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O que acontece é
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What you would have is that,
when we would go to parties,
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que quando íamos a festas,
tínhamos o DJ e o rapper.
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you would have the DJ
and you would have the rapper.
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Mas como não sou
uma fonte de eletricidade,
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But because I don't have
electricity coming out of me,
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tínhamos que imitar a batida.
02:56
we had to emulate
what the beats was doing.
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So when you would see the beatboxer,
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Então, quando vocês viam um "beatboxer",
nos viam ali ao lado.
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you would see us over to the side.
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Então, viam um rapper,
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Then you would see a rapper,
and when the rapper began to rap,
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e quando ele começava o rap,
fazíamos uma batida simples,
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we would do a simple beat,
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porque naquele tempo
a batida era simples.
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because back then the beats were simple --
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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ou...
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or --
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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Essas eram batidas simples.
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Those were simple beats.
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Mas agora,
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But now, you got folks that want
to do all type of stuff
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tem gente que quer fazer
todo tipo de coisa com suas batidas,
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with their beats now,
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e quer humilhar seus pais.
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and they want to humiliate their father,
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E não é legal querer humilhar
a pessoa que toma conta de você,
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which is not right when you want
to humiliate the person
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that take care of you, pay
all your tuition, (Nicole laughs)
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paga a mensalidade da escola,
ainda mais quando você tem
50 milhões de pessoas a sua volta
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especially when you have 50 million people
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that just go around
and call you "the loser."
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chamando você de "o perdedor".
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Well, I'm taking that to heart.
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Bem, eu levo isso a sério.
03:44
But now we do something
different in our house,
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Mas agora fazemos algo diferente
em casa, fazemos jam sessions,
03:46
so we have these jam sessions,
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que são improvisos na igreja.
03:48
and our jam sessions consist
of us jamming in church.
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Sabem, na igreja olhamos
um para o outro, tipo...
03:53
You know, in church,
we'll look at each other like,
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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(Risos)
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(Laughter)
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e mandamos a batida por SMS.
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and we'll text the beat to each other.
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(Beatbox)
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Or we'll be in the kitchen cooking,
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Ou estamos na cozinha,
na estrada, em aeroportos.
04:02
road trips, airports.
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NP: Ou parados ali na esquina:
"Olha, pai, escuta isto..."
04:04
NP: Standing right there in the corner,
"Aw, Dad -- listen to that."
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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Não, estou brincando.
04:09
Naw, I'm kidding. But you know what?
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Mas quer saber?
04:11
We're talking all about this
jam session and everything.
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Estamos falando dessa jam session e tal.
EC: É.
04:15
EC: Yeah.
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NP: Vamos dar uma amostra,
só uma palinha da nossa jam session?
04:16
NP: Why don't we give them a little peek,
just a tiny bit of our jam session?
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Querem um pouco da nossa jam session?
04:20
NP: Y'all want to hear some jam session?
EC: Y'all ready for a jam session?
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EC: Prontos para uma jam session? (Vivas)
04:24
(Cheers)
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NP: Como? Não consigo ouvir. (Vivas)
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NP: Sorry? I can't hear you.
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Vamos lá, pai!
04:26
(Cheers)
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04:27
Yeah! Kick it, pops!
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(Beatbox)
04:28
(Beatboxing)
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(Fim do beatbox)
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing)
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(Beatboxing ends)
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(Fim do beatbox)
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
NP: Agora eu tô pronta!
06:09
NP: I'm getting ready to go!
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EC: Todo mundo pronto? Todo mundo de pé!
Vamos lá, todo mundo de pé!
06:10
EC: Y'all ready? Everybody stand up!
Come on, everybody stand up!
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Levantem, vamos lá!
06:13
Get on up! Come on, stretch!
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06:16
(Beatboxing)
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(Beatbox)
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(Beatboxing ends)
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(Fim do beatbox)
NP: É isso aí.
06:48
NP: That's it.
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(Vivas e aplausos)
06:49
(Cheers and applause)
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NP: TEDYouth, vamos fazer barulho!
EG: Obrigado, todo mundo!
06:53
Thank you! Make some noise!
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06:54
EG: Thank you, everybody!
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06:55
NP: Make some noise! Make some noise!
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NP: Vamos fazer barulho!
Obrigada!
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Thank you!
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Translated by Cláudia Sander
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nicole Paris and Ed Cage - Beatboxers
Father-daughter beatboxing duo Nicole Paris and Ed Cage mix beats across generations.

Why you should listen

Nicole Paris, a beatbox artist and musician, gained notoriety and millions of fans when a YouTube battle against her mentor and father, Ed Cage, went viral within hours of its release.

Mixing current EDM (electronic dance music) sound, vibrant energy and passion to create new and unique beats, her freestyle instantly garnered worldwide acclaim and interest. Sparring live on ABC’s Good Morning America and the CBS Late, Late Show with James Corden, she was crowned the new face of beatbox by popular vote with Doug E. Fresh, Rahzel and other well-known beatboxers, hailing her natural talent. 

More profile about the speaker
Nicole Paris and Ed Cage | Speaker | TED.com