I don't see the whoop that way. More generally, the whoop is just noodling around a major triad. Its sound never leaves major tonality. C.f. on the other hand

I don't see the whoop that way. More generally, the whoop is just noodling around a major triad. Its sound never leaves major tonality. C.f. on the other hand blues music, which often digs into the flattened third degree of a major scale to make it a bit more, well, bluesy.