Beatboxing

Unsecured information: First World Human Beat Box contest in 1985 at the New Music Seminar in New York City.

History

Hip hop flyer announcing Doug E Fresh as "the human beatbox" for a party in 1982

Albums

1980s

• Fat Boys – Fat Boys (includes beatbox track "Human Beat Box" and "Brrr, Stick 'Em" (1984)
• Doug E. Fresh – The Show & La Di Da Di (1985)
• Roxanne Shante & Biz Markie – Def Fresh Crew / Biz Beat 12” (1986)
• Just-Ice – Back to the Old School (1986)
• Wise – Just Say Stet (1985), Faye (1986) & Stet Troop 88 (1988)
• Biz Markie – Goin' Off (includes beatbox track "Make The Music With Your Mouth, Biz") (1988)
• Vanilla Ice – "Havin' a Roni" – from To The Extreme (1990)
• Snap! – "Only Human" – B-side on Mary Had A Little Boy 12" (1990)

1990s

• Click Tha Supah Latin – This Iz How I Know (1997)
• Rahzel – Make The Music 2000 (1999)

2000s

• BeatBoxing Vol. 1.0 – The Mystery of BeatBox (2001)
• Click Tha Supah Latin – Square Won (2001)
• Kyle "Scratch" Jones – The Embodiment of Instrumentation (2002)
• Killa Kela – The Permanent Marker (2002)
• Esham – Out Cold (2003)
• Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body (2003)
• Rahzel – Rahzel's Greatest Knock Outs (2004)
• Björk – Medúlla (2004)
• Joel Turner – These Kids (2004)
• Matisyahu – Live at Stubb's (2005)
• Biz Markie – Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz (2006)
• Click Tha Supah Latin – Contact (2007) under the artist name Click88
• Poizunus – A.D.D. (Active Dreaming Disorder) (2007)
• Kid Beyond – Amplivate (2004)
• Blake Lewis – A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream) (2007)
• Dub FX – "Everythinks a Ripple" (2009)

2010s

• Beardyman – I Done A Album (2011)
• Hopsin – Lunch Time Cypher (2013)
• Reeps One – Move (2013)
• Berywam – Berywam (2017)
• NaPoM – Lips (2018)

Music Videos

• Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew – "All the way to heaven" (1986)
• The Fat Boys – "Stick'em" (1986) MCA Home Video (Sutra records) (on VHS tape The Fat Boys – Brrr Watch’em)
• The Fat Boys – "Can You Feel it" (1986) MCA Home Video (Sutra records) (on VHS tape The Fat Boys – Brrr Watch’em)
• The Fat Boys – "Fat Boys" (1986) MCA Home Video (Sutra records) (on VHS tape The Fat Boys – Brrr Watch’em)
• The Fat Boys – "Jail House Rap" (1986) MCA Home Video (Sutra records) (on VHS tape The Fat Boys – Brrr Watch’em)
• The Fat Boys – "Wipeout" (1986)
• The Fat Boys & Chubby Checker – "The Twist" (1986)
• Rahzel – "All I Know" (1999 ???)
• Rahzel – "Make The Music 2000" (1999 ???)
• Beatbox Allstars – Living beatbox (2001)
• Justin Timberlake – "Rock your Body" (2003)
• Click Tha Supah Latin with his family – "Contact" (2007)

Feature Films

• Police Academy (1984) with Michael Winslow
• Krush Groove (1985) with The Fat Boys
• Knights of the City (1986) with The Fat Boys
• Disorderlies (1987) with The Fat Boys
• Coming To America (1988) with Jeanette and Vanessa Colon (min. 35:38)
• Juice – City War (1992) with Jermaine Hopkins (min. 6:27)
• She's All That (1999) with Click Tha Supah Latin
• My Sassy Girl (2001) Korean Movie (min. 94:45)
• 8 Mile (2002) with audio by Click Tha Supah Latin (added in post-production)
• Men in Black II (2002) with Biz Markie
• Night at the Museum (2006) with Ben Stiller
• Pitch Perfect (2012)
• Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
• Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

TV Shows

• Graffiti Rock (1984), particularly the extra features on DVD (produced and hosted by Michael Holman)
• The Morning Show (1984) with The Fat Boys (hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey)
• Comedy Night (1986)
• The Morning Show (1987) with The Fat Boys and The Fat Girls consisting of Tracy Barbara, Michelle Parker (Human Beatbox), Kim Harry (hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey)

https://youtu.be/CLRlvKrqORA

• Miami Vice (1986) (Season 2, Episode 16 "Florence Italy") with The Fat Boys
• Futurama (2001) (Season 3, Episode 36 "The Luck of the Fryrish")
• Oprah Winfrey Show (1993) with Michael Jackson beatboxing an intro to his a cappella sung version of "Who is it"

• Midday with The Fat Boys hosted by Bill Boggs

https://youtu.be/Hwb9-3UQ5nE

Documentary

• Big Fun in the Big Town (1986) by Bram van Splunteren (Dutch documentary about hip hop in New York)
• Lost in Music – Rap & Söhne (1999) by Uwe Klinkmann and Markus Schneider, first aired on ZDF (German TV channel) in 1998
• Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box (2002) by Joey Garfield
• Love, Peace & Beatbox (2008) (German) by Volker Meyer-Dabisch
• Beatboxing – The Fifth Element of Hip Hop (2011) by Klaus Schneyder

Video Games

• B Rap Boys (1992) this arcade game (the part with robot suits) contains music with unlicensed audio samples from the movie Knights of the City

https://youtu.be/v-jHYqN_-4o?t=512

TV Commercials

• Coca Cola (1993)
• Nike (200?) with Click Tha Supah Latin
• Barcadi (20??) - with Beardyman
• Beartbox Movistar (20??) - THePETEBOX
• Drumstick Loaded (20??) - Joel Turner
• Edeka (20??)
• Express Your Stress (2???)
• Fruit Pastilles (20??) with Killa Kela
• Geico (20??) with Michael Winslow
• KFC (Philippines) (20??) with Picoy Cruz
• IKEA Dormroom (2???)
• Mc Donalds (20??) with Lytos and Markooz
• McDonalds (20??) - with Team Awesome - GCode -
• McDonalds (20??)
• Mentos (20??) - (Beat It)
• Pepsi (20??) - Rahzel
• Twix Commercial (20??) - Rahzel
• Sony Beatbox (20??)
• Sprint Commercial (200?) - Masai Electro
• Suzuki (20??) - (1st Cut)
• Swatch (19??) with The Fat Boys
• Taco Bell $5 - Scott Jackson
• T-Mobile (2010) - with Bellatrix, Andrew Frost
• Vodafone (20??) with Poolpo
• Windows Vista (20??) with Poolpo

Weblinks

• Humanbeatbox.com (englisch)
• Beatbox Battle World Championship (englisch)
• American Beatbox Championships (englisch)
• Swissbeatbox.com – World’s largest Beatbox Community (englisch)