Passing in front of the level in front of a giant crowd, the young woman presents himself as “Boo”. Dress with a colorful bomber, jeans and glasses, Boo is short with a comfortable and sharp voice.

When music falls, its changes.

Proximizing “Shake that Monkey” since 2003, through a rhythm that is too short, Boo, the internship rapping the lyrics of Runchy and Donser with the fanfono of an experienced artist. And the public eats it.

At the end of its performance, the crowd explodes in applause. “I didn’t need to be on such a level,” he said, returning to his personality.

The shoulder standing on the shoulder, many other people packaged in a Union nightclub this month for Trap Karaoke, an occasion that combines karaoke with a concert to sing. But by Bon Jovi, Journey, Backstreet Boys and other old Karaoke songs, the occasion provides exclusively trap, hip and R&B music: think of Kanye West, Travis Porter and Migos.

“Maybe 20% of the occasion is a karakearray . . . but you have many people who come home and have had the time of their lives,” said Jason Mowatt, 31, founder and director of the occasion. “I think that karaoke is an excuse for other people to decrease and faint and have fun. “

The origins of Trap Karaoke began like an all. Mowatt sent an SMS to a friend obsessed with the future of the rapper. “He said I will communicate later, I’m going to Karaoke with my colleagues. And I told myself. ” Doube would not be in loop if we could make karaoke with the cheat music, “Mowatt said.

Mowatt, who has marketing education in social networks and an investor / organizer of the Hip-Hop and Electronic Music Festival in Washington, D. C.

In Los Angeles, the Brigidann Cooper and Omar Alcibar duo, dresses with complementary red and black costumes, were placed at the level to interpret the 2pac tube of the “Love of California”.

Cooper the main artist, Alcibar, acting as a man of media trillators. When he forgot some of the words, the public jumped: the big screen that projects the public’s words.

“I did Karaoke, never with this type of crowd,” said Cooper, 35, later, dragging through the bar. “It’s like an action; you must have interaction with the crowd and be entertaining. “

“This is a component of this occasion in itself. I went to Karaoke bars, even recently in New Orleans, and even there, the hip-hop variety was so weak,” explains Alcibar, 36. “Maybe other people do not have time to transcribe Lil Wayne. “

Karaoke on the theme of hip-hop is not a new concept. La Rima, for example, that in 2009 is an occasion per month in Los Angeles, which is aimed at the multitude of hip-hop, but it is rare to locate a bar or a karaoke living room that has a giant hip-hop catalog.

There are theories about why karaoke is relatively short. This has to do with Japan Karaoke’s entrance to the United States in the last years 1980 and early nineties, according to Rob Drew, writer of “Karaoke Nights: An EthnoGry Russody”.

“The entire repertoire of 800 songs in 1990, when the Karaoke gave the impression for the first time, then prolonged 1,400 songs in 1992, that is to say at that moment I began to examine it. It is a very selective menu,” Drew said. “Also at that time, even if the popular hip-hop, it is a bit under the radar for the client’s public industry. “

Drew also talked about the cultivation of karaoke and the differences between making a song opposed to the execution of hip-hop in a public environment.

“His generic American karaoke bar has a tendency to be a way for an exhibition of making song skills, beating low notes and notes and having a better height,” said Drew. “I think it’s because hip-hop culture is so organically participatory that it never seemed to want Karaoke. “

But the event, which presents exuberant amateur performance, has many similarities with the Karaoke classic. A big difference lies in his ability to gather black millennials to separate, percentage of a delight and feel a sense of community.

This is the reason why Mowatt needs to be bigger the chest karaoke in smaller and less known cities. “From the beginning, my position on this issue that we are not party promoters, we are network organizers,” said Mowatt.

Here in Los Angeles, the occasion took position the same night as the inauguration of Donald Trump.

“So we all saw what happened early this morning to D. C. “, said Lowkey host, drawing thunderous bumps. “But that constitutes our America. Donald Trump constitutes us; he will never constitute us. “

From there, the DJ introduced into the anti-trump song “FDT” through Compton-Rapper Yg.

The night ended with words of host breath, who repeated that he had said before about Boo’s performance.

“Attack as Boo attacked the scene tonight. “

makeda. aster@latime. com

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