Verbal ASE
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| Born | Adym Steven Evans January 11, 1984 Montclair, California, U.S | |||||||||||||||
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Adym Steven Evans (born January 11, 1984), better known as Verbal ASE, is an American beatboxer, rapper, impressionist, YouTuber, and Internet personality. He became well known in the New York City subway systems for his street performances including beatboxing, rapping and impersonating various fictional characters in popular media. He then went on to gain internet fame on his YouTube channel where he would upload a variety of videos showcasing his performances. One of the most popular videos on his channel is an animated series titled Cartoon Beatbox Battles. The series takes two fictional characters from popular media and have them compete in a beatboxing competition.[1] Verbal ASE provides the voices and singing vocals for the characters while an animated avatar of himself would host the tournaments and provide commentary.[1]
In 2024, Verbal ASE faced controversy when a leaked Discord chat revealed he had paid $50,000 for a suggestive music video animation, back in November 2021. The animation depicts his avatar getting chased and subsequently seduced by Charlie Morningstar, a character from the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel created by Vivienne Medrano accompanied by the song Hide Away by Synapson from Super 8 being played in the background.[2][3]
Early life
Adym Steven Evans was born on January 11, 1984, in Montclair, California.[4] His first name Adym (pronounced Adam) has a y between the second and fourth letter instead of an a because his father wanted him to be different.[5] In his childhood, he would play Streets of Rage 2 on his Sega Genesis and would imitate the sounds heard in the game, incorporating them when playing with his toys.[6] He moved to Las Vegas in 1996, where he attended Silverado High School.[5] In high school, he began to actively beatbox, quickly becoming popular around the school for his skill.[7] Many of his peers suggested he beatbox professionally and Evans's family supported him in his talent.[7] The first sound incorporated in his beatboxing was an imitation of a cricket chirp.[8]
Evans cites one of his influences being Michael Winslow from Police Academy, Bobby McFerrin and Will Smith from seeing his role in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[8]
Career
Early work
Evans continued his beatboxing career. After a brief time in Qatar, Evans came to New York City in 2008. There, he performed shows in the New Victory Theater with a breakdance group called Knucklehead Zoo from October to November 2008 .[8] He returned to New York City, meeting fellow beatboxer Kid Lucky at the Annual American Human Beatbox Festival in La Mama Theater.[6][8] He was invited to perform in the festival with a Japanese Beatboxer where a filmmaker was shooting a documentary on the beatboxer.[8] Evans had previously worked at Marshall's, making $80 a week.[6]
Subway Performances
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Evans would perform in the subway systems which earned him $120 in just two hours. [6] The amount of money he made by his performance in comparison to what he made at Marshall's led to his decision to keep performing in the New York subway systems.[8] In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy Evans lent emotional support by amusing townsfolk with his beatboxing talents.[9] In 2016, he was named New York's favorite beatboxer by The Source.[8]
Collaboration
In 2016, Evans entered the Yamaha Grand Stage at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California which was co-headlined by Mr. Talkbox.[10]
Evans' Star Wars themed beatboxes and Darth Vader impressions brought the attention of Disney and Google. The companies loved his theatrical approach to his talent and reached out to him and asked if he could do a Star Wars, Google commercial. After a flight to California, Evans recorded his vocals for the commercial. The commercial was for Google Pixel's Last Jedi AR Stickers, a collaborative effort between Google Pixel, Trigger XR and Lucasfilm to produce AR stickers themed after characters from the Star Wars franchise to promote the release of The Last Jedi. Evans got paid $10,000 for his recording.[6][11]
Evans guest starred on The Kelly Clarkson Show. He discussed his time with Will Smith.[12]
Evans participated in a Geico Radio commercial.[13]
Internet Fame
Verbal ASE uploaded his channel in 2006. His first video, published July 2006, was a 46-second beatbox video.[14] Verbal ASE had seen Celebrity Death Match on MTV which pit two celebrities or fictional characters from popular media and have them fight to the death. The show made Verbal Ase feel there wasn't any beatboxing cartoon show. He soon had the idea to make his own beatbox show[6] He believed his beatboxing and voice-impression skills could help him turn his idea a reality. Verbal ASE would call the video series, Cartoon Beatbox Battles.
He worked with his brother, who did animations, to produce a short, animated video which would be a beatbox battle between Mickey Mouse and Spongebob with each character being given 40 seconds on their turn. Within 4 months to a year, the video had accumulated 1 million views, making it Verbal ASE's most viewed video at the time.[6] Verbal ASE wouldn't continue the series until 2 years later as he was busy with his street performances in New York City. His street performances weren't making him recognized by concert hosts and DJs. After a failed relationship with a girl, Verbal ASE decided to focus on his Online Career more and started investing more on his YouTube content. He started remixing every song he grew up with into his beatbox battles.[6]
After Disney paid him $10,000 for the Star Wars commercial, Evans decided to use the money and hire animators on Fiverr in order to continue his Cartoon Beatbox Battles series on YouTube. The episode Pennywise Vs The Joker would go on to be his most viewed video on his channel.[6]
Personal Life and Goals
Evans is a Buddhist. He was raised into the religion by his mother and father who also were Buddhists. Evans has stated that Buddhist chanting inspired him to be a beatboxer.[9]
Evans has expressed interest in being backstage at Nickelodeon Studios.[9]
Controversy
On January 11, 2024, an X user going by the name @thestartofluck posted a thread exposing Verbal ASE. He posted how Verbal ASE's YouTube series, Cartoon Beatbox Battles, had suffered a long hiatus with episodes being posted 6 months apart from each other. The user mentioned how back in November 2021, Verbal ASE stated on his Discord server how he was involved in a special music video animation project involving him in the Hazbin Hotel universe. The user's former friend, Hydro Animates had shown him screenshots of the project before it even got published on YouTube.[2][3]
In 2023, the user went back to the CBB community where a friend brought up how Verbal ASE confirmed the project had wrapped up production and released on somewhere on YouTube. Verbal ASE stated that the project costed roughly $50,000 and was not suitable for his own channel due to its mature content. He stated that the project was made because he wanted to make his own music video on the Synapson song, Hide Away. The original music video song depicted scenes of a woman in a bar kissing elderly citizens and children.[2]
The music video was eventually discovered in the YBB Community. The video was originally kept secret within the user's group chat until someone posted the video to another group chat. Users kept spreading the video until it entered the official server. Users were reportedly banned for joking on the video and a new rule prohibited anyone from mentioning it. Verbal ASE didn't think the video could do any harm but made the original music video private on his chase channel. The video was eventually reuploaded by another user.[2]
The project is two minutes and fifty-five seconds long.[15]
This decision by Verbal ASE had damaged the reputation of his YouTube channel. One of the recent episodes for his Cartoon Beatbox Battles Series, Black Panther Vs Deadpool only brought in 12 million views, which was comparatively low to other episodes of the series.[16]
Verbal Ase has also admitted to being Queerphobic and Homophobic.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wyatt, Karl. "The Meaning Behind The Song: Sonic Beatbox Solo by VerbalAse's Cartoon Beatbox Battles". Old Time Music. Archived from the original on January 20, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 @thestartofluck (January 11, 2024). "EXPLAINING THE STORY OF HIDE AWAY FROM VERBALASE: A THREAD!!!!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 12, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Did YouTuber Verbalase Spend $50,000 for a Thirsty 'Hazbin Hotel' AMV?". The Mary Sue. January 11, 2024.
- ↑ "Who is Verbalase? Verbalase Animation, Career, Net Worth, and More". fresherslive. January 16, 2024. Archived from the original on January 18, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "An Amusing Comedy of Errors (with Verbal ASE)". audioboom. Jul 18, 2020. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 "#023 - Verbal Ase". Spotify for Podcasters. March 17, 2023. Archived from the original on January 18, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Nyc subway's court Jester". The Next Level Magazine. December 31, 2022. Archived from the original on January 18, 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 "MEET NEW YORK'S FAVORITE SUBWAY BEAT BOXER, VERBAL ASE". The Source. January 18, 2016. Archived from the original on January 13, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "MEET NEW YORK'S FAVORITE SUBWAY BEAT BOXER, VERBAL ASE". The Atlantic. May 5, 2015. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Meet Mr. Talkbox". NashvilleVoyager. June 6, 2022. Archived from the original on June 6, 2022. Retrieved June 6, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "GOOGLE PIXEL – THE LAST JEDI AR STICKERS". Trigger XR. December 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Watch The Viral Beatboxer That Will Smith Is Fanning Over". NBC. October 10, 2019. Archived from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved October 10, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Siavrakas, Christopher (February 2, 2018). "Geico Beatboxing at a Big Box Store". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Verbal ASE's Profile, Net Worth, Age, Height, Relationships, FAQs". sportskeeda. December 18, 2017.
- ↑ OOCwesternr34, OWR34 (January 11, 2024). "Out of context porn on X: "Fuck it, here's the full AMV"".
- ↑ "VERBALASE ANIMATION VIDEO WATCH TWITTER SCANDAL EXPLAINED". holrmagazine. January 14, 2024. Archived from the original on January 17, 2024. Retrieved January 14, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Felt, Klein (January 18, 2024). "Hazbin Hotel Controversy Explained: Verbalase Allegations & Drama". The Direct. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
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