DALLAS -- You may not listen carefully to the pre-flight instructions every time you board a plane, but you certainly will if you fly with one Southwest Airlines flight attendant.
"We're going to shake things up a little bit," announces David Holmes, who tried something new after noticing his passengers tuning out and glazing over during the instructions.
"I take them by surprise. I usually don't tell them I'm going to do it," Holmes said.
Holmes needs a little audience participation, asking passengers to stomp and clap to keep the beat as he rhymes the flight instructions in his own rap.
"The first time I did it, it was just a fun thing to do," Holmes said. "I didn't know how they were going to react, and I like to have fun at work, but then people starting getting off the plane, and said to me, 'That's the first time I ever listened to the emergency instructions.'"
"If you have a seat with a row with an exit / We're gonna to talk to you, so you might as well expect it / You got to help evacuate in case we need you / If you don't want to, then we're gonna reseat you," Holmes raps during the instructions.
Holmes was discovered by a passenger who recorded his rap with her cell phone, and then told him he was putting it on YouTube.
"I said 'I dare you,' and two days later, she did it," Holmes said. "Two days after that, it was already 2,000 hits at the time."
Now a YouTube sensation, Holmes has been doing the rap ever since, to rave reviews.
"Never experienced a rapping flight attendant before. It's pretty awesome, and I don't like rap, but that was pretty good," said one passenger on one of Holmes' flights.
Holmes said he has different versions, and the hardest part is making sure they are fun, but also comply with Federal Aviation Administration regulations.
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