My first one-million-view video – a cover of Drunk in Love – got on World Star Hip Hop and that’s where a lot of my early audience came from.Ĭorrell: I got a lot of negative comments starting out. Because I had a predominantly black audience, I decided I needed to be making RnB videos and Ne-Yo type music. I posted that Beyonce video, which was my first singing video, and got the biggest crowd reaction I’ve probably ever gotten.Ĭhuyi: So when you say you didn’t like the music on the radio in 2010, what sort of music are you into?Ĭorrell: When I first started, I liked Ginuwine, Prince, MJ and George Michael. I went through with my gym process and when I saw my abs I got so much confidence to follow through. I just didn’t like the music, one of my favourite artists stopped doing his thing, and MJ had just passed away, so I really wanted to start doing music. The following transcript comes from my hour-long conversation with him.Ĭhuyi: How did you get started with making your videos? What motivated you to start posting them online?Ĭorrell: It was in 2010 and I was working out and I was trying to better myself, and I didn’t like the music on the radio – it had totally changed.
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A full 18 days later, I woke up to a startling reply: Buff Correll’s had not only agreed to an interview, but had sent me his phone number and a time I should reach him at. Radio silence ensued for over two weeks as my hopes of ever talking to him faded – it wasn’t that he hadn’t seen the message, it was that he had almost instantly seen it and had ghosted me ever since. Having hit the maximum cap for friends on Facebook, my best shot was to send him a DM and hope for the best.
I was one of those conspiracy theorists, unsatisfied with mere speculation, and I needed to find out the truth.Ĭorrell was not an easy man to reach. Conspiracy theories fly left and right about his extreme hairdo, the content of his funny-sounding vocal warmups, why he has a poster of himself up on the wall and why he always dances in front of a mirror. As such, the lore surrounding his character has ballooned to an entire fictional universe. His social media presence – as if not already bizarre enough – consists of uploading sometimes over 100 selfies and mirror photos a day, counterpointed by the occasional link to a RnB track with the caption ‘JOINT’. Quickly co-opted by ‘Patrician’ music groups and meme circles across the internet, Correll has now danced – and sung – his way through several Death Grips, Mitski, Radiohead and Doja Cat tracks.ĭespite the amount of Buff content freely accessible, he still largely remains an incomprehensible online enigma in the eyes of many. 2019 marked a bit of a renaissance for his channel after he started taking song requests from Facebook and YouTube comments. What is perhaps more impressive than the visual delight of his dance moves is the consistency of his output Correll often uploads multiple times per day, totalling around ten to twelve videos a week. Although most of his uploads have yet to break the ten thousand mark, his first ever cover – a waist up video of him upper-body break-dancing to Beyonce’s Drunk in Love – has garnered over 1.1 million views as of this month. You’ve seen him all over Twitter, YouTube and Facebook meme groups.Ĭorrell Bufford, Buff Correll online, is a viral American internet personality who has been uploading dance covers onto web streaming platforms for more than a decade, and his popularity has seen peaks and valleys over the years. You have heard his passionate singing voice and his unique warmup routine. You know his wild kinetic dance moves and infectious energy. Even if you don’t know his name, you know his haircut.
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