Evilgiane

Evilgiane shapes an inventive production approach that merges ethereal textures with bouncy, pocket-heavy rhythms inside present-day rap frameworks. As the driving force behind N.Y.C.’s Surf Gang collective, his singular style has secured placements with veterans including Kendrick Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt while sustaining ongoing partnerships with Harto Falión, Eera, and K$upreme.

New York City native Evilgiane grew up with a songwriter and a producer as parents and started making beats as a teenager, drawing early inspiration from MexikoDro through Shield Gang and first circulating tracks via SoundCloud. A committed skater, he anchored an emerging circle of skaters and musicians at the LES skatepark; that loose network eventually became Surf Gang and initially included Caspr, Eera, Harrison, Pasto Flocco, and Moh Baretta. By 2017 he was already linking with Summrs! on “Goin Out Bad!”, Caspr on “ParisHilton”, and BBYGOYARD on “Get Well”, testing fresh variations on trap while generating a steady flow of experimental fragments.

His signature aesthetic crystallized in the early 2020s. Surf Gang dropped its first two projects that year—SGB, a 35-track compilation spotlighting early members, and the tighter 15-track mixtape SGV1—where Giane anchored luminous, atmospheric layers to trap and drill drums. He refined the approach across three 2021 collaborative tapes: Im_my_worst_enemy with Harto Falión, Surf Da World with K$upreme, and Dr. Phil with RealYungPhil. Although he had previously issued unofficial EPs online, he marked his first intentional solo statement with the four-track instrumental project Glane in 2022.

After reshaping Surf Gang into a producer collective and label, Evilgiane kept pushing his sound through relentless output. A further Harto Falión project, the 2023 mixtape Im_my_best_friend, arrived alongside the Smoove Dinero EP Eviltwinski and a run of singles. Additional work encompassed Surf Gang’s At Least We Tried and SGPM (with Serane), plus substantial contributions to 454’s Fast 5 and Harto Falión’s Poor Rich. Following the December 2022 Earl Sweatshirt track “Making the Band (Danity Kane)”, 2023 brought wider mainstream exposure via his production on Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem’s “The Hillbillies”. Capitalizing on that momentum, he assembled numerous collaborators for the 23-track solo mixtape #HEAVENSGATE VOL.1 in 2024, presenting the fullest survey of his sound to date.