Born on 1/25/2008 in the United Kingdom (UK) Alexander “Alex” Shickle aka $werve is a 17 year-old producer based in London.

He’s a member of Cowbell Cult a collective (a group of producers). His spotify which has 1 million monthly listeners .

He’s best known for his debut song “CITY LIGHT$”(Released with Cowbell Cult) and his work in the phonk sub-genre of hiphop. $werve has been producing music since February 27, 2021 when he was thirteen years old.

He has collaborated with rappers and producers such as CAIRO!, HXELLPLAYA (prod), HXI (prod), Ethan Ross, Mupp (prod), IRUKA (prod) and many more artist like KSLV (prod), Nateki (prod), Grioten & DAY$OKEE.

Though he hasn’t been in the phonk scene for as long as other phonk producers he has made a name for himself among some of the best phonk producers with a following of half a million (504 thousand) followers on his Tiktok account and 30.8k (30,800 thousand) over on his Soundcloud.