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Japan-based beatboxer Hikakin meets US-based freestyle dancer Nonstop (video)

Xeni Jardin at 12:53 pm Wed, Jun 27, 2012

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The folks at MYISH put together two beautiful talents in the video above: Hikakin, a beatboxer based in Japan, and Marquese Scott a.k.a. Nonstop, a US dancer from Georgia who achieved viral fame in this 2011 video. They're both absolutely amazing, and together, man: what a beautiful collaboration. You'll be able to watch this in-flight on the Boing Boing Virgin America television channel, along with other great Japan beatboxing videos from MYISH.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://ae4rv.com/ royaltrux

    wow!

  • hymenopterid

    That guy is awesome.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myMC3IETlpo

  • Glen Able

    Really amazing talents…the only unfortunate thing is I missed half of what the dancer was doing because I’m apparently compelled to watch Hikakin.

  • snailspace

    I just checked and “dubstep to Pachelbel Canon” was a googlenope. 

    Until now.

  • http://twitter.com/danoot Dan

    I am surprised that this video make Hikakin more interesting to watch than Nonstop. I don’t understand.

  • ClintonD

    Hikakin’s “HikakinTV” Youtube channel, where he puts up videos every day of him trying various foods or doing random things is ridiculously, often hilariously, entertaining. http://www.youtube.com/user/HikakinTV

  • awjt

    Awesome! Also, click on the Bailee Moore vid at the end of this one… you WON’T be disappointed…

  • giantasterisk

    Thank you, Boing Boing. And thank you, Internet. Just what I needed to see today.

  • vrtlczyk

    thank you :-)

  • nox

    Awesome.

    I guess dubstep just makes nonstop shine more than beatbox.  
    Hikakin’s  ”sank you very much” at the end made me laugh out loud. Dude can make an absurd number of sounds so I’m completely caught off  guard when he can’t do ‘th’.

  • http://twitter.com/abrAaKaHank Kevin Barboro

    Hikakin’s a great beat boxer, simply outstanding. Can’t really sing though…