aaron lacrate is an american music producer recording artist dj fashion designer of milkcrate records and milkcrate clothing and a film director he was born in baltimore maryland and grew up in highlandtown east baltimoreaaron lacrate is credited for popularizing baltimore music and culture on a world wide level via his music and clothing in 2009 aaron lacrate produced the first ever baltimore club platinum record for pop star dizzee rascals song road ragehbo commissioned milkcrate athletics and aaron lacrate to create the official fashion range for the baltimore based cable television series the wire this was first time that hbo collaborated with a streetwear fashion designer milkcrate athletics is baltimores first original streetwear brandaaron lacrate productions is credited for the early success of lily allen amanda blank spank rock mndr eliza doolittleat the age of 10 lacrate began experimenting with diy culture lacrate began djing at baltimore nightclubs house parties writing graffiti and even started making custom tshirts his first studio was in his basement where he created mixtapes and tshirts sold throughout baltimore lacrate was the youngest working dj in baltimore prior to attending syracuse university where he took over the campus music scene he spent his summers in new york city interning for def jam recordings payday and rocafella records helping launch jayzs classic reasonable doubt lacrate also played a vital role in the hard knock life tour and later produced the exclusive jay z x milkcrate fade to black collaboration tshirtin 1999 aaron lacrate and milkcrate athletics sponsored a highly successful series of live shows at nyc nightclub tramps featuring eminems first nyc show tribe called quest rakim slick ricks first show upon being released from prison outkast wutang clan epmd ultramagnetic mcs and many other historical performanceslacrate has produced and remixed official major label commissioned music for madonna gorillaz soulja boy tell em dizzee rascal young mc lily allen and the cool kids tracks from lacrates album bmore gutter music released in 2005 was used by marc jacobs in a fashion showlacrate has toured with lily allen mark ronson dizzee rascal rakim and most recently kanye west aaron has developed exclusive specialedition fashion collaborations with vans colette paris rakim hbo the wire jayz and cashmere king lucien pellatfinet lacrate has also collaborated with cocacola hbo delicious vinyl dazed confused and ferrariwhich ferrari his music has been featured on hbo the wire entourage life support dj hero videogame and on the soundtrack to observe and report starring seth rogenrecently lacrate released the first bmore major label record bmore club crack which features mr vegas eliza doolittle and local baltimore gutter artists including mz streamz and verb