r/beatbox

27K archived posts · Aug 2010 – Sep 2026

Beatbox

r/beatbox

The official Beatbox reddit! Come join other passionate beatboxers to help grow the underground art form. Share ideas and learn from people like you online.

Created Apr 29, 2009

21KMembers (last snapshot)

27KArchived posts

Hello and welcome to the beatbox family. If you’re looking for some beatbox advice, tutorials, or to get involved with the community, you’ve come to the right place!

What is beatbox?

Beatbox is the art of creating music with the human voice, throat, chest, and mouth. Communicating through sounds is a practice that dates to the dawn of man. However, the official term “beatbox” was coined by Doug E Fresh in the late 1970's in New York City. Read the full history of beatbox.

Where do I learn to beatbox?

There are plenty of awesome tutorials on Youtube. Our favorite tutorial channels are OrthoBox, Fat Tony, and Track IX.

Humanbeatbox.com also has a ton of awesome resources that you can use!

Start here:

What are the biggest tournaments?

The two most notable international tournaments are the Beatbox Battle World Championships and the Grand Beatbox Battle. To stay in the loop with all the events around the world, check out our events page.

The Beatbox Battle World Championships (BBBWC) is hosted every 3 years by Beatbox Battle TV. This is a week-long festival held in Berlin, Germany where all the best beatbox talent gather from every corner of the world.

Solo Champions:

2005 - Joel Turner [AUS]
2009 - Zede [Switzerland]
2012 - Skiller [Bulgaria]
2015 - Alem [France]
2018 - Alexinho [France]

Tag Team

2015 - TwenTeam'8 [France]
2018 - SpiderHorse [USA]

Female Solo

2005 - Butterscotch [USA]
2009 - Bellatrix [UK]
2012 - Pe4enkata [Bulgaria]
2015 - Kaila Mullady [USA]
2018 - Kaila Mullady [USA]

Crew

2009 - Under Kontrol [France]
2015 - The Beatbox Collective [UK]
2018 - Berywam [France]

The Grand Beatbox Battle is an annual event hosted by Swissbeatbox in Basel, Switzerland. Competitors are chosen by direct invitation, but there are also ‘wildcard’ spots where beatboxers may enter by creating an entry video.

Solo

2009 - Marzel [Switzerland]
2010 - Marzel [Switzerland]
2011 - Skiller [Bulgaria]
2012 - Ball-Zee [UK]
2013 - Dharni [Singapore]
2014 - Dharni [Singapore]
2015 - Gene [USA]
2016 - Kenny Urban [USA]
2017 - Napom [USA]
2018 - Codfish [AUS]
2019 - D-low [UK]

Loopstation

2013 - Grison [Spain]
2014 - Faya Braz [France]
2015 - Mando [Germany]
2016 - Thorsen [Denmark]
2017 - Saro [France]
2018 - Beatness [France]

Tag Team

2016 - Fabulous Wadness [France]
2017 - Mad Twinz [Russia]
2018 - SpiderHorse [USA]

What are the most popular YouTube Channels? There are plenty of awesome YouTube channels to check out. Here are a few of our favorites:

Showcase Channels:

Personal Channels:

How do I get involved? This reddit community is a great place to start. The numbers and involvement are definitely growing. You can also join our Facebook discussion group if you’re interested in meeting more members of the community.

Another great place to start is by joining a discord channel! Hit us up!

BeatboxTalk Discord

And last but not least, come out to a beatbox event near you!

Add your info to the BeatSheet so people can know who are and help you out!

BeatSheet

Please, feel free to post videos of your own beats and we will all be ready to give helpful advice.

We are all here to support each other

Banner courtesy of greyscalegorilla.com and u/foutsboys4. Thank you to humanbeatbox.com for assisting with creating this sidebar!

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