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Adyn Steven Evans (born January 11, 1984), better known as Verbal ASE, is an American beatboxer, Rapper, impressionist, YouTuber, and Internet personality. He became well known in the New York City subway systems for his street performances including beatboxing, rapping and impersonating various fictional characters in popular media. He then went on to gain internet fame on his YouTube channel where he would upload a variety of videos showcasing his performances. One of the most popular videos on his channel is an animated series titled Cartoon Beatbox Battles. The series takes two characters from popular media and have them compete in a beatboxing competition. Verbal ASE provides the voices and singing vocals for the characters while an animated avatar of himself would host the tournaments and provide commentary.

In 2024, Verbal ASE had faced controversy when a leaked Discord chat revealed he had paid $47,000 for a suggestive music video animation. The animation depicts his avatar getting chased and subsequently seduced by Charlie Morningstar, a character from the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel created by Vivienne Medrano accompanied by the song Hide Away by Synapson from Super 8 being played in the background.

Early Life
Adyn Steven Evans was born on January 11, 1984 in Montclair, California. He has stated that he always made sounds since childhood. He moved to Las Vegas in 1996. In high school, he began to actively beatbox, quickly being popular around the school for his skill. Many of his peers suggested for him to beatbox professionally. The first sound incorporated in his beatboxing was an imitation of a cricket chirp. He would then move on mixing other sounds in his beatboxing and gradually getting more in tune in his skill.

Evans cites one of his influences being Michael Winslow from Police Academy, Bobby McFerrin and Will Smith from seeing his role in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Early work
Evans continued his beatboxing career. After a brief time in Qatar, Evans came to New York City in 2008. There, he performed shows in the New Victory Theater for three weeks with a breakdance group called Knucklehead Zoo. He came back to New York City by the name Lucky Kid for the Annual American Human Beatbox Festival at La Mama Theater. He got invited to perform in the festival with a Japanese Beatboxer where a filmmaker was shooting a documentary on the beatboxer. Evans made $90 in several hours. The amount of money he made by his performance in comparison to what he made working at Marshall's lead to his decision to keep performing in the New York subway systems.

Collaboration
Evans participated in a Super Bowl ad for Super Sprowtz - Children's Internet Culinary Show where he played the character Coby Carrot.

Evans participated for a commercial for Google Pixel's Last Jedi AR Stickers, a collaborative project by Trigger XR and Lucasfilm to produce AR Stickers themed after characters from the Star Wars series to promote the release of The Last Jedi.

Evans participated in a Geico Radio commercial.

Internet Fame
Verbal ASE uploaded his channel on May 19, 2006. Many of his early videos showcased his performances and talent from the various events he had joined. On May 19, 2016, Verbal ASE uploaded the first in a series of animated videos titled Cartoon BeatBox Battles. The video had a cartoon version of Verbal ASE as host and had Mickey Mouse and Spongebob compete against each other in beatbox competition. In the end, Verbal ASE would ask the viewer to comment on who won the battle. The video became a success, garnering 25 million views as of January 17, 2024.

The video's success paved the way for more episodes to be produced. The series would the likes of various character from pop culture such as Mario, Sonic, Thanos, Darkseid, Pennywise (character) and Deadpool. The series has 47 videos and 32,311,340 views on the playlist as of January 17, 2024.

Controversy
On January 11, 2024, an X user going by the name @thestartofluck posted a thread exposing Verbal ASE. He posted how Verbal ASE's YouTube series, Cartoon Beatbox Battles, had suffered a long hiatus with episodes being posted 6 months apart from each other. The user mentioned how back in 2021, Verbal ASE stated on his Discord server how he was being involved in a special music video animation project involving him in the Hazbin Hotel universe. The user's former friend, Hydro Animates had shown him screenshots of the project before it even got published on YouTube.

In 2023, the user went back to the CBB community where a friend brought up how Verbal ASE confirmed the project had wrapped up production and released on somewhere on YouTube. Verbal ASE stated that the project costed roughly $50,000 and was not suitable for his own channel due to its mature content. He stated that the project was made because he wanted to make his own music video on the Synapson song, Hide Away. The original music video song depicted scenes of a woman in a bar kissing elderly citizens and children.

The music video was eventually discovered in the YBB Community. The video was originally kept secret within the user's group chat until someone posted the video to another group chat. Users kept spreading the video until it entered the official server. Users were reportedly banned for joking on video and a new rule prohibited anyone from mentioning it. Verbal ASE didn't think the video could do any harm but made the original music video private on his chase channel. The video was eventually reuploaded by another user.

This decision by Verbal ASE had damaged the reputation of his YouTube channel. One of the recent episodes for his Cartoon Beatbox Battles Series, Black Panther Vs Deadpool only brought in 12 million views, which was comparatively low to other episodes of the series videos of the series.