Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.
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Beatbox
//ˈbiːt.bɑks//
Synonyms for "beatbox"
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Translations
11 translations across 9 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 節奏口技 /节奏口技 noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
Dutch
2 entries- beatbox noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
- beatboxen verb (to use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument)
French
1 entries- beatbox noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
German
2 entries- Beatbox noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
- beatboxen verb (to use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- ビートボックス noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
Korean
1 entries- 비트박스 noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
Portuguese
1 entries- beatbox noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
Spanish
1 entries- beatbox (bítboks) noun (a type of electronic percussion device)
Swedish
1 entries- beatboxa verb (to use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music.
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Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
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Hell, why do so many of us still breakdance? Why do so many of us still beatbox? The two most successful rappers to come out of Chicago, Common Sense and The Brat, had nothing to do with the city-wide hip-hop scene.
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