NIC@NITE fashions a Neapolitan blend of hip-hop, punk, and synth-pop. The St. Louis writer, vocalist, and producer crashes brainy quips and after-school antics into cutting self-critiques as an act of forced growth.

Nick’s bedroom production experiments started in 2015 when a crowd-funded EP from four-piece high school punk outfit, The Temporary Tattooz, lost its lead guitarist/sound engineer to boarding school.

After a slew of genre-restless singles, Nick shifted focus to 2023 ego-rap avalanche, BIG CHEESE, with genre conquistador and creative counterpart, KONG. The project garnered a cult-following within St. Louis' music circles, with rollout stretching through Summer 2024, under the all-encompassing mantra/rollout zeitgeist, “Big Cheese Season” (#BIGCHZSZN).

‘ALL SMILES,’ the second collaborative project from NIC@NITE & KONG is out now.