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Ras Kwame Interviews...Homegrown artists
So you wanna beat box? Learn from the master. Ras Kwame talks to 100% Homegrown multi-vocal mega-star Killa Kela
Killa Kela
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Who is Killa Kela?
"If you want singers you go to Jill Scott. if you want rappers you go to 50 Cent. If you want beat box and you want multi-vocal, you want Killa Kela."
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Killa Kan Do
"I consider myself a worker. I hustle for what I do cos that's all I do do."

Kan anyone learn to beat box?
"I guess you've got to have a certain mouth and technique for it... A lot of people say it isn't so much what you're doing but where do you have the time to breathe?" 
Killa Kela (right) with MC Trip
Killa Kollaborations
"I've done support slots for Redman, Buster, Public Enemy, Pharell... We did a show with Timberlake..."

"If you're working with people, you just want to be working with the best people you can."

Killa Kharacter
"It's all about trying to keep it as human as possible... With a lot of beat boxes, in terms of putting it out on to wax, it's kinda hard for them cos one minute, they're up on the front stage being the frontman, but as soon as they make an album, they push themselves right back behind the boards, and then you lose the character, you lose the personality." 

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