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Corbin Smidzik, better known as Spooky Black (and previously known as Lil' Spook) is an American Alternative R&B singer from Saint Paul, Minnesota and a member of the hip hop/R&B collective the Stand4rd.

Smidzik gained popularity on the internet through a series of solo releases on the website Soundcloud. His first release Forest was put out in late 2013 and featured more of a hip hop sound with Smidzik rapping on every song, in contrast to his later and more recognized R&B-stylized singing.

By 2014, Smidzik was gaining mass exposure with the help of Soundcloud and YouTube. The video for the song "Without You", from the mixtape Black Silk (released in February 2014), went viral, attaining more than a million views on video-sharing websites YouTube and WorldstarHipHop. Noisey declared the video an "instant classic" and published an article titled "Is Spooky Black Going to Take Over the R&B Game?", while Consequence of Sound and Complex magazine named "Without You" one of the best songs of 2014.