Crankdat

Ohio native Christian Smith grew up highly athletic, but ultimately turned down a full-ride track-and-field scholarship to Kent State to pursue music, producing energetic and melodically vibrant EDM as Crankdat. Smith began making music while still in high school, juggling duties as an athlete with an obsessive excitement for producing his own tracks. He originally gained recognition for a string of high-energy remixes of other artists' tracks, including a bounding reworking of Fetty Wap 's breakout single, "Trap Queen." Eventually these remixes racked up millions of plays and Smith, barely out of his teens, was getting attention from bigger names in EDM such as Skrillex and Chainsmokers . 俄亥俄州的Christian Smith從小就運動能力很強，但最終拒絕了肯特州立大學的全額田徑獎學金，來追求音樂，並以Crankdat的名字製作了充滿活力且旋律感十足的電子音樂。Smith在高中的時候就開始製作音樂，作為一名運動員，他對製作屬於自己的作品有着執着的熱情。最初他憑藉着為其他歌曲帶來的一系列高能混音作品而獲得了認可，其中包括為Fetty Wap的知名單曲“Trap Queen”的Remix。最終，這些混音作品獲得了數百萬的播放量，使得剛滿20歲的Smith就受到了Skrillex和The Chainsmokers等EDM巨星的關注。