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Corbin on the anger, isolation & paranoia of his debut album
Corbin Smidzik first emerged from St. Paul, Minnesota in 2014 with a series of ghostly, lo-fi videos. Often depicting the then-16-year-old singer in the thick of the woods, wandering and wallowing through the wilderness, the videos slowly spread from YouTube and WorldStarHipHop onto music blogs and into the world.
It wasn’t always easy for people to understand his appeal – his aliases ‘Spooky Black’ and ‘Lil Spook’ seemed to work against him, while his tendency to treat everything from album announcements to music videos to social media as a joke led many to dismiss the project as an ironic prank that had gotten out of hand.
One thing that Smidzik always took seriously, however, was his music.
With a sound that sat somewhere between 80s soul icon Keith Sweat and underground rap hero Lil Ugly Mane, he soon fostered a cult-like audience (before he’d even turned 18, he could count Drake amongst his fans). His young a