11-year-old Rapper Matty B Gets 6 Billion Hits For Creating Latest Remix For Down Syndrome Sister
Though he is just 11-years old, he has created more than 6 billion views in his latest YouTube channel remix of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colours," after posting it on September 2. Rapper MattyB is the Internet's most recent viral success story.
His real name is Matthew Morris. He dedicated his cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" to his eight-year-old sister, Sarah Grace, with Down's syndrome. His latest presentation has targeted people who tend to exclude children with developmental differences, or who bully or mock others. The video is asking everyone to view other's "true colours."
In just one month, he has got six million views. He raps Lauper's song, while 11-year-old Olivia Kay, who has also created waves on YouTube, sings the vocal tune.
MattyB explained why he did it: "Some people looked at her differently or didn't want to play with her," MattyB explained to Fox News. He feels that Sarah is just like any other normal child. The little girl, Sarah, agrees. "I can do baseball or ballet, and I like to dance," she said to ABC News. "I do hip-hop, and I play soccer, and I do batting, and I always play goalie."
His mother, Tawny Morris, said that it was special to see them interact. His father too was thrilled that his son's message had gotten across. It had been a "special project" for us, he said. He felt fortunate that everyone had seen it that way. He added that the entire family had imbibed important lessons on unconditional love and unity from Sarah Grace. Even his son, MattyB felt that Sarah's a "great person." The family lives outside Atlanta. They have attempted not to label Sarah with any special label or definition. Matty B hopes that special children with special needs like Sarah have to learn that "anything can become real, and they can do anything."
MattyB is a special brand and is not just a content creator, but an 11-year-old from Georgia, with 500,000 Twitter followers, more than 2 million YouTube subscribers, and 5 million likes on Facebook. He seems to be one of the youngest with a huge following.
However, he also has a huge number of dislikes, according to dailydot. When in April, he posted a cover of the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy", it got 6,000 dislikes, and 1 million views. A number of haters left a storm of comments in YouTube's Peanut gallery: "I've heard of you for a minute MattyB, I never left hate comments, but this is too far. I know you want to make music for kids your age... But never remix a song made by a legend rapper who's dead. You might get threatened for this, seriously."
In 2012, he had remade Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend." Today, it has 78 million views. In his short career, he has managed to remix Justin Bieber, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Robin Thicke, Naughty By Nature and Cher Lloyd. Even at the age of 7, he made a parody of "Whip My Hair."