“I’ve done regular karaoke, never with this kind of crowd,” Cooper, 35, says later, hanging out by the bar. When she forgot some of the words, the audience jumped in - the large screen projecting lyrics to the audience helped. In Los Angeles, duo Brigidann Cooper and Omar Alcibar, dressed in complimentary red and black outfits, took the stage to perform the 1990s 2Pac hit “California Love.”Ĭooper was the main performer, with Alcibar acting as hype man. From there, the event evolved into a nationwide tour. Mowatt, who has a background in social media marketing and was an investor/organizer of Washington, D.C.’s hip-hop and electronic music festival, Trillectro, quickly arranged the first trap karaoke on New York’s Lower East Side in September 2015. ‘Man wouldn’t it be crazy if we could do karaoke to trap music,’” Mowatt said. “He said I’ll talk to you later, I’m going out to karaoke with my coworkers. Mowatt was texting a friend obsessed with the rapper Future. The origins of Trap Karaoke started as a lark. “I think karaoke is an excuse for people to let their guard down and come out and have fun.” “Maybe 20% of the event is karaoke… but you have hundreds of people who go home and have had the time of their lives,” said Jason Mowatt, 31, the event founder and director. But instead of Bon Jovi, Journey, Backstreet Boys and other classic karaoke songs, the event features exclusively trap, hip-hop and R&B music - think Kanye West, Travis Porter and Migos. Standing shoulder to shoulder, hundreds of people packed into Union Nightclub this month for Trap Karaoke, an event that blends karaoke with a sing-along concert experience.
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