Spank Rock

   
Artist: Spank Rock

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Fabriclive 33 mixed by Spank Rock

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 29


   
 YoYoYoYoYo

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12

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Reflecting the party blame ambience of Baltimore's club scene, Spank Rock arrived as one of the best things to pass off to both underground hip-hop and lousy tap, a copulate of styles that rarely intermingle. The mathematical group formed as a coaction between MC Naeem Juwan (aka Spank Rock) and producer XXXchange (Alex Epton). Both grew up in Baltimore, though never met until both had been making music elsewhere for several days. Juwan was rapping by his lyceum age, and a friendly relationship with producer Shawn J. Period (Mos Def, Talib Kweli) helped him decide on blame as a vocation and Philadelphia as a starting point. XXXchange studied at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then briefly the New England Conservatory before decamping for New York and a stint drumming with the indie electronic chemical group Zero Zero, whose 2001 record album AM Gold was produced by the highly sought DFA camp; he also earned a production apprenticeship at DFA, assisting James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy.


A mutual friend, Alex Rockswell, introduced Juwan and XXXchange at a Baltimore artwork gallery, and the two before long began running together (Rockswell later coupled the cortege as DJ). Influenced by Baltimore's fat only seldom exported golf-club setting, Spank Rock tracks were influenced by the haggard breakbeats of electro and bass, glitch and grease, while Juwan proved up to the project of invocation the hyper-sexual rhymes necessary for a actual Baltimore flavor. Signed to the originative British label Big Dada, the duette turned heads with early singles "Backyard Betty" and "Hayrick Rubin." Spank Rock's debut record album, YoYoYoYoYo, appeared in April 2006. XXXchange besides recorded a mix in album, Voila, that married his bruising beats to a succession of start songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s.