Eric Whitney (born April 15, 1991), also known as Ghostemane, is an American record producer and rapper from Lake Worth, Florida. Whitney initially rose to popularity as a member of the now-defunct SCHEMAPOSSE—a group that included Lil Peep and JGRXXN amongst others. In a 2017 interview with No Jumper, Ghostemane said he decided to leave SCHEMAPOSSE as he wanted to grow as an independent artist and didn’t want to be boxed in a certain group or movement.

In a 2016 interview with Metal Insider, Whitney stated that he was influenced by metal bands such as Deicide, Death, Carcass, and Mayhem. He later got into hip-hop groups such as Dirty Boyz, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Three 6 Mafia. He listed bands like Circle Takes the Square and The Number Twelve Looks Like You as additional inspirations in a 2016 statement to Masked Gorilla.

Ghostemane has numerous side projects. These include his lo-fi black metal project Baader Meinhof, his experimental noise project GASM, and his industrial techno project SWEARR, alongside his abandoned projects ILL BiZ and Limsa Lominsa, Eric Ghoste, and his unreleased goth rock project Magdalene.