The Brainrot Community on Instagram: "fun fact about beatboxing A fun fact about beatboxing is that it originated as a way to mimic drum machines, particularly the Roland TR-808, that were widely used in early hip-hop music when drum machines were either unavailable or too expensive. The term "beatboxing" itself comes from these early drum machines, which were colloquially called "beatboxes." Early beatboxers used their voices to replicate the sounds of these machines, effectively becoming human