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King Willonius #1 Single! Do You Ever Get Tired?

Originally published in Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Singles.

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .

June 2026

1. "Do You Ever Get Tired?-------King Willonius

People are going to say I set this up, but I didn't---it just happened. Last month I asked the non-believers to listen to Christian music whose lyrics might annoy. This month I ask the believers to listen to music that might offend. And isn't it fitting that with the passing of Clarence Carter---one of the most brazen of southern soul artists---someone had the super-sized onions to record something like this? Now don't you churchgoers tell me you never get this pissed off. Let's keep it 100. This is one of the greatest venting tunes ever recorded, sizzling with vengeance, blasphemy and vulgarity, and yet it exhorts the same musical influences as West Love's praise to God in last month's "(God's) Been Good," and in truth does it even better, its churchlike call and response format, its tour de force hook, its high-spirited gospel chorus and heavenly horn fills juxtaposing with the startling street profanity to make it one of the most original entries in the southern soul canon. If this tune had any more immediacy, it'd jump out of the stereo speakers in a wife-beater and boxers, sending goose pimples racing up your spine. Just an outstanding vocal! Its only fault is its brevity---two and a half minutes, just two verses, no bridge---and yet by the end of the song King Willonius has calmed down. "You can do better" are his final, conciliatory words. I roll with it on REPEAT. And I wonder...Will it trigger female "response songs" like King George's "Keep On Rollin'"?

Listen to King Willonius singing "Do You Ever Get Tired?" on YouTube.

--Daddy B. Nice

About King Willonius #1 Single! Do You Ever Get Tired?

King Willonius is the performance name of New York-based comedian and L.A.-based comedy writer Will Hatcher. He initially gained fame in the mid-2000s under the moniker "Avocado Papi" with popular YouTube comedy parodies. He went viral in 2024 with the AI-constructed "BBL Drizzy," a send-up of hiphop star Drake, which became the first notable example of AI sampling in mainstream hip-hop. The "BBL" was an acronym for "Brazilian Butt Lift" and "Drizzy" a nickname for Drake. During the 2023 Los Angeles writers' strikes, Hatcher realized AI wasn’t going away. So he decided to put in thousands of hours to master AI tools and use them to take his career to another level. He broke into the southern soul market in 2026 with an irreverent, gospel-infused tirade called "Do You Ever Get Tired," which became the #1 "breaking" single in Daddy B. Nice's Top 40 Southern Soul Singles in June of 2026.

Tidbits

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"AI music is getting out of control… and this might be one of the most REAL sounding AI songs I’ve ever heard. The emotion, the delivery, the message--—it almost doesn’t feel artificial."

Listen to more reaction from YouTube Podcaster GetYaBarzUp's WAIT… THIS IS AI? King Willonius---Do You Ever Get Tired?

Daddy B. Nice notes:

No one in southern soul has been crusading against A-I product more than myself. Just read my "News & Notes" columns of the last year. But what the podcaster says about this song "not sounding artificial" is the truth. It is real in the sense that this artist has worked so hard and so long to master A-I tools and incorporate them into his creativity that he has achieved the state that all great athletes inhabit. That is, playing without thinking---in Willonius's case, creating without thinking---with an orchestra at his disposal from his brain to his fingertips. And the vocal, which has been the sore point---the point where I drew the line on A-I---is totally believable. I don't hear a hint of artifice. Can he sing it into a microphone in front of an audience? I don't know, but I'd sure like to see him onstage doing it.