Quick Facts
Biography
David Paul “Dave” Brown, (born 24 August 1987), better known online by his pseudonym Boyinaband, is an English YouTuber, musician, and rapper. Brown is well known for his song "Don't Stay in School" and collaborations with other YouTubers such as iDubbbz, Jaiden Animations, Jack Frags, Roomie, Andrew Huang, TheOdd1sOut, Emma Blackery, Dan Bull and PewDiePie. His work has spanned various genres including electronic, hip hop and metal as a producer, vocalist, songwriter, DJ and instrumentalist.
Among other endeavors are his former electronic metal band You and What Army, which had various successes playing Download Festival and Sonisphere. The band was put on hiatus in 2014. Other video content of his include vlogs, music tutorials/education, comedy/skits, raps and challenges.
Career
Brown's YouTube channel was created on 14 November 2007. Currently, the oldest public video on the channel is a music tutorial published on 27 June 2008. Most early videos were focused on his band You and What Army, tutorials/educational, vlogs, reviews and interviews with other musicians/bands.
From 2011 onwards, parodies and skits were more prominent on the channel, for example "How to Play Dubstep Guitar" and "Appropriate Faces for 10 Genres of Music".
On 2 February 2015, Brown published the music video for his song "Don't Stay in School", which went viral. In the track, he criticizes the school systems for teaching topics he deemed irrelevant and useless subjects, thus wasting students' time when they had the potential of learning things of value or that interest them. The song has been subject to controversy for seeming to send a message encouraging students to drop out of school; however, Brown has stated that it is merely meant to critique the school system, and the words "Don't Stay in School" refer to the topics he considered pointless that are taught in schools.
Over time, Brown released a series of follow-up videos to "Don't Stay in School". His final follow-up video, "You don't legally have to go to school", discusses various unconventional educational options: alternative schools, charter schools, "unschooling", and homeschooling. In the video, Brown also interviews a student from one of these progressive schools.
In 2017, Brown collaborated with Ian "iDubbbz" Carter to create a diss track against Bryan "RiceGum" Le titled "Asian Jake Paul" as part of Carter's Content Cop series.
On 31 March 2019, Brown collaborated with PewDiePie and Roomie in an upbeat synth pop/hip hop music video titled "Congratulations". The music video was based on congratulating and dissing Bollywood Music Corporation T-Series in surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers.
Brown's sister Hannah also has a YouTube channel, titled "WhiteEnglishGirl", where she mainly uploads Japanese related content. She also has a YouTube channel teaching Japanese called "JapaneseJoshi".
Discography
Albums
- Quite a Lot of Songs (2013)
- Merry Christmix (2013)
Singles
- Djentstep (2012)
- 2.99 (2013)
- Djentrance (2013)
- Midnight (ft. Veela) (2013)
- Chipstep (ft. Andrew Huang) (2013)
- Djentrap (2013)
- Producer Name Rap (2013)
- Point At All the Things (ft. Jack Frags) (2013)
- Battlefield vs Call of Duty Rap Battle (ft. Jack Frags) (2013)
- Hello Monsta (ft. Minx & Markiplier) (2013)
- I Am Mildly Annoyed (ft. Cookiebreed) (2014)
- Day-Z Hero vs Bandit Rap Battle (ft. Jack Frags) (2014)
- That Girl (ft. Cookiebreed, Patty Walters & VeeOneEye) (2014)
- Too Much Fun (ft. Minx) (2014)
- Limelight (ft. Cryaotic) (2014)
- You Look Like a Girl (2014)
- How to Get a Number One Song (ft. Roomie) (2014)
- Murder (ft. Minx & Chilled) (2014)
- Town of Salem (ft. Minx) (2014)
- Christmix 4 (2014)
- Don't Stay in School (2015)
- Spectrum (ft. Cryaotic & Minx) (2015)
- I'm Not Dead (2016)
- Top of the Props (ft. Minx) (2016)
- Prancer Rap (ft. TheOdd1sOut) (2018)
Collaborations
- Time Bomb (ft. Veela) - Feint & Boyinaband (2012)
- Super Mario Dubstep Cypher (ft. Boyinaband, Dan Bull & Veela) - None Like Joshua (2013)
- A to Z - Boyinaband & Andrew Huang (2013)
- Counter Strike Porch (ft. Boyinaband) - Dan Bull (2014)
- Xbox One vs. PS4 Rap Battle - Boyinaband & Oliver Age 24 (2014)
- Xenocide (EP) - Seamless, None Like Joshua & Boyinaband (2014)
- Bible Rap - Boyinaband & Dan Bull (2014)
- A to Z 2 - Andrew Huang & Boyinaband (2014)
- Plants vs. Zombies (EP) - Dan Bull & Boyinaband (2015)
- Asian Jake Paul (ft. Boyinaband) - iDubbbz (2017)
- Empty (feat. Jaiden Animations) (2018)
- Life is Fun (feat. TheOdd1sOut) (2018)
- Congratulations - PewDiePie (feat. Boyinaband and Roomie) (2019)
With You and What Army
- Soundtrack to the Apocalypse (2009)
- The End of the Beginning (2010)
- You and What Army EP (2012)