Midwxst

Edgar Nathaniel Sarratt III was born on June 5, 2003 in Columbia, South Carolina.^[4] His father worked in the Air Force, and his mother worked as a Human Resources Executive, he also has an older sister. Saratt was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when he was young. He attended Park Tudor School for High School.^[2] Saratt joined the Park Tudor School band and started making music as early as his sophomore year in High School.

Based in Indiana, Sarratt would originally release his freestyle songs to SoundCloud.^[4][5] Towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,^[6] during the lockdowns, Midwxst would become involved in the early hyperpop scene had released his song "Trying" on November 20, 2020. Which would eventually garner traction online.^[5][7][8] The song had sat at over 5 million streams on Spotify as of October 2021.^[9] He embarked on a tour with Glaive in June 2022.^[10] Midwxst released E3, his debut studio album, in November 2023.

Sarratt's musical style has been described as hyperpop.^[11][12][13] He grew up listening to Kanye West, TLC, Aaliyah, and Beyoncé from his mother, while his father listened to hip hop. Sarratt cites Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean, Spitalfield, KT Tunstall, XXXTentacion, Porter Robinson, and Pi'erre Bourne as music influences.^[7]