Wichita man does Katt Williams, DaBaby and John Witherspoon impressions in a barbershop, impressing people by how much he sounded like them all

He Never Broke Character Once — and the Internet Has Already Crowned Him

A man walked into Champion Cutz Barber & Beauty in Wichita, Kansas, and started talking. Not to anyone in particular. Not about anything in particular. He opened his mouth and out came Katt Williams, then DaBaby, then John Witherspoon, cycling through voices as he crossed the floor of a working barbershop with no stage, no microphone stand, and no introduction.

The clip was posted by the culture account @raphousetv7 on X. Within days it had pulled roughly 437,000 views, 12,600 likes, 2,400 reposts, and hundreds of replies, with commenters responding to the accuracy of the voices before anything else.

A Performance with No Script

Champion Cutz Barber & Beauty sits at 1518 W 21st Street North, a walk-in shop advertising standard barbershop hours and a mix of haircuts and grooming services. The number 1518 is visible on the glass entrance door throughout the footage. It is an ordinary storefront on an ordinary stretch of road.

The man wears a green baseball cap, a black T-shirt printed with “Crown Cutz Academy of Barber & Style,” patterned pants with Fila branding, and red-and-white sneakers. He switches voices on his own as he moves, with no setup and no pauses between characters. Furthermore, he does not introduce himself or explain what he is doing.

His posture and gestures shift with each voice. He points, leans, and changes his stride to embody each person he’s imitating. In the background, people can be heard laughing and encouraging him as he goes through characters. The clip ends without the man giving his name.

The Dead Actor Whose Voice Landed Hardest

The strongest voice in the clip belonged to the late John Witherspoon. He was known to generations as Pops from the Friday films and in the “Wayans Bros.” sitcom. Witherspoon’s delivery was gravelly, slightly exasperated, folksy, and usually aimed at younger people or everyday inconveniences. His cadence was unmistakable, and impersonators have leaned on it for years.

Witherspoon died in October 2019, which gives any accurate impression of him a different weight than a Katt Williams or DaBaby bit. His vocal signature has remained one of the most quoted in online comedy. So, his memory has been kept alive through clips, memes, and the Friday films themselves.

In the video, the Pops voice is used for lines about waiting a long time and observing the shop’s activity. That is the same energy Witherspoon built his career on: the older man in the room, mildly disgusted, commenting on everything and everyone around him.

Six Years of Barbershop Impressions, One New Name in the Rotation

This is not a new format. In January 2019, Worldstar shared a video where a man in a barbershop was doing impressions. That video featured a man imitating Plies, Katt Williams, and John Witherspoon. It turns out, that one-time barbershop moment where a man entertained the people would not be a one-off. Years later, other people began doing the same thing.

Similar videos have surfaced on YouTube and TikTok in the years since, often shot in Black-owned barbershops and built around the same core voices. Some add Eddie Murphy or Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks. The settings change but structure does not. Of course, the comedian Aries Spears has built an entire career from doing celebrity voice imitations.

The Wichita clip updates that reference set by folding DaBaby into the rotation. Katt Williams impressions in this tradition run faster and more theatrical, with a conspiratorial, boastful edge. DaBaby-style delivery pushes toward high-energy, rhythmic, confrontational cadence.

Viewers on X Were Highly Impressed by the Man’s Impressions

On X, the people had a lot to say about this man’s impromptu performance. The responses were was overwhelmingly positive, and almost every reply zeroed in on the same thing: how close the voices landed. Users repeatedly described the impressions as “on point” and “exactly like him,” and the praise stayed focused on the ear and the timing rather than the setting.

One user called the Witherspoon impression “crazy good.” Another wrote, “That was good R.i.P. pops,” a nod to the actor’s death in 2019. A third imagined the performer “inna crib having a conversation with 5 other […] By himself,” a joke about how many distinct characters he could hold in his own head at once.

“He so good, it’s slick creepy,” one reply read, which captured the reaction a lot of people seemed to share. “Yea gone head and reboot the boondocks,” another user wrote, pointing at the Witherspoon-adjacent characters the impression called to mind.

Short reactions piled up underneath. “He sounds just like him.” “This is excellent man!!! Hilarious!!!!” “WWWOOOWWW.” Strings of laughing emojis.

Quote-tweets mostly carried the video with brief captions like “Wow. He’s truly talented” and “🔥🔥🔥.” A smaller number of users tagged friends to make sure they saw it.

Several commenters said the bit sounded like their own internal monologue, the conversations they have with themselves when nobody else is around. Nobody in the replies questioned whether the impressions were real or staged. The conversation stayed on the craft itself, and on how strange it is to hear one man sound like an entire room.

What Barbershops Mean for the Community

Barbershops have long functioned as informal performance spaces. Conversation, roasting, storytelling, and impersonation happen there while people wait, and nobody needs a ticket. The man is not on a stage with lighting. He is using the shop, moving between the front door, the water cooler, and the counter as he performs.

That is the appeal. The water cooler, the snack display, the numbered glass door, and the open floor carry the texture of the original room. Viewers who have never been to Wichita recognize the setting instantly because it is their setting too. Everywhere there is a community, there is a barbershop. So, everyone who knows the culture knows this man.

The video reinforces something barbershop regulars have known for generations: talent is not confined to studios, and the best show in town is often free. It also explains why this format keeps producing viral clips. The room does half the work.

Final Thought

The man is not identified by name in the original post or in any available public reporting tied to the clip. What happens next depends on whether he or the shop decides to step forward and claim it.

For Champion Cutz Barber & Beauty, the attention arrived without being asked for. The location tag and the visible “Crown Cutz Academy of Barber & Style” shirt put the business in front of hundreds of thousands of people who never searched for it. That is exposure a small walk-in shop on 21st Street North could not have bought.

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