Baby Got Back Talk
Baby Got Back Talk is a D-I-why?-because-we-gotta punk party from New York City. The band teamed with producer John Naclerio (Just Surrender, The Audition) at Nada Recording Studios for their latest EP, Existential Shred due out later this Summer 2022 on Wiretap Records.
Formed in 2017, Baby Got Back Talk initially consisted of vocalist/bassist G’Ra Asim, synth op/vocalist Rhiana Hernandez, and lead guitarist/vocalist Jake Lazaroff. After years of sharing bills with local compatriots like Choked Up, Universe Ignore Her and Gibbons-- acts that were all anchored by the propulsive stick work of drummer Wes Ruiz-- Baby Got Back Talk welcomed Ruiz into the fold.
"We’re what punk looks like in the 2020s: driven by a DIY ethic, conversant with social issues--especially as they pertain to gender and race, enabled by inter-web, bankrolled by day jobs, powered by a rad likeminded community, resonant with the most venerable iterations of rock ‘n’ roll but firmly committed to injecting some new flavor into the mold."
The band has released a pair of EPs in 2017’s Take This The Wrong Way and 2018’s Up In Open Arms. Their full-length debut, 2020’s Genre Reveal Party, was mixed by Paul Leavitt (All Time Low, Senses Fail, Yellowcard).
Notable Achievements:
Named one of Alternative Press’s 17 Black Alternative Bands leading the next generation
Named one of AfroPunk’s Top 8 Punkest Bands on the Planet
Named one of The Utah Daily Chronicle’s 5 Black Alternative Bands You Need to Know in 2021
Performed at AfroPunk Festival 2019
Performed at Punk Island 2018
Performed at #Say Her Name Campaign 5th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony
Featured on the Grey Estates, the Alternative, Chorus.fm and Don’t Bore Us
Featured in Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother (Beacon Press), a nonfiction book authored by vocalist/bassist G’Ra Asim
Featured on National Public Radio’s “St. Louis On the Air”