Check out Kenya’s own Beat boxer

Earlier today, we were humbled by a visit from one of the best poets who also happens to be a professional actor and a very good beat boxer. Talk about being multi-talented. This guy comes with the whole package. Did I mention that he is also into music?

Artist Checkmate came to the Ghafla! offices to shoot a series of beat box videos. These series of videos will be exclusively launched right here at Ghafla! as soon as possible, together with his interview with one of our writers.

For those who are not familiar with beat boxing, this is the art of creating or imitating music beats of a certain track, by using only the mouth and hands. If you happen to listen and watch a good beat boxer such as Checkmate, you wouldn’t believe the quality of sound that can actually come out of the mouth.

Checkmate will soon be dropping his beat box album which will be fused with some elements of music. Poetic music to be precise, so you know for sure that there will be some really deep lyrics involved, such as the ones in this song that he did a while back in collaboration with other spoken word artists, titled R.I.P (check it out).

Below a taste of good beat boxing though not from Checkmate, just to give you an idea of what to expect in the coming series of his freestyles.