The Cool Kids

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The Cool Kids
Origin Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan, United States
Genre(s) Hip hop
Years active 2007–present
Label(s) Chocolate Industries, C.A.K.E. Recordings
Website http://www.coolxkids.com
Members
Antoine Reed (Mikey Rocks)
Evan Ingersoll (Chuck Inglish)

The Cool Kids are a hip hop duo from Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. The duo consists of Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed (originally from Matteson, Illinois) and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll (originally from Mount Clemens, Michigan).[1] The Cool Kids' music has been released primarily via their MySpace page, but have been signed the independent Chocolate Industries via their own label C.A.K.E Recordings. Reed and Ingersoll have collaborated with several other musical artists and made appearances in numerous media.

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The members of The Cool Kids met in 2005 when Reed found a beat on the Internet that Ingersoll had produced.[1] The two met to discuss terms of the beat's sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours.[2] They were inspired by hip hop in the 1980s and artists like Eric B. & Rakim.[3] Ingersoll began promoting the new duo's material, and it was eventually booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance.[2] At this performance (in a venue called Town Hall Pub), the duo met the DJ Diplo who offered to release a mixtape of their unreleased tracks titled Totally Flossed Out on his label Mad Decent, though it was eventually released on C.A.K.E. Recordings.[4] They also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool's Gold label,[4] which they did, but only for one single.[5]

Until recently, all material had been released solely on the band's MySpace page[3]—their recording contract came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Music Festival, on July 15, 2007.[1][6] Eventually, The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label.[5] The band has revealed on its MySpace page that The Cool Kids' debut album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, will be released in 2008.[7] Ingersoll has been the producer for tracks released thus far,[8] but both work in rapping and production.[9] The duo uses music software program Reason from Propellerhead Software to produce their music.[10]

They have been on tour, opening for M.I.A.[11] and they will be also joining the bill of the 2008 Rock the Bells hip hop festival on select dates.[12] One of the duo's singles, "Black Mags", was featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial, along with Sara Bareilles.[13] In the same year, the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled "Gettin' It", which will reportedly appear on the DJ's future album Get Right.[14] The band has been featured in the video games NBA Live 08 and MLB 2K8 with the song "88",[15] and in the episode "The First Cut Is the Deepest" from HBO's TV series Entourage with the song "I Rock."[16] They were listed in Rolling Stone's Ten Artists to Watch in 2008.[17]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year Title Label
2008 When Fish Ride Bicycles[7] C.A.K.E Recordings/Chocolate Industries

[edit] EPs

Year Title Label
2007 Totally Flossed Out C.A.K.E Recordings
2008 The Bake Sale C.A.K.E Recordings/Chocolate Industries

[edit] Mixtapes

Year Title Label
2008 That's Stupid (May 2008) C.A.K.E Recordings/Chocolate Industries

[edit] Singles

Year Title Label
2007 "'88"/"I Rock" (12") Fool's Gold[18]
2007 "Black Mags" C.A.K.E Recordings/Chocolate Industries[19]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Brown, Marisa. Biography. allmusic. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  2. ^ a b Dugan, Stacey (2008-01-02). "The Cool Kids: Colorforms". URB (151). 
  3. ^ a b Raymer, Miles. "Where the Cool Kids Are", Chicago Reader, 2007-07-06. Retrieved on 2008-03-08. 
  4. ^ a b Dugan, Stacey (2007-07-18). "The Kids are all right". Time Out Chicago (124). 
  5. ^ a b Maher, David (2007-10-23). The Cool Kids Sign to Chocolate Industries. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  6. ^ Pitchfork Staff. "Pitchfork Music Festival 2007: Sunday", Pitchfork Media, 2007-07-17, p. 3. Retrieved on 2008-03-08. 
  7. ^ a b Fire Starter: The Cool Kids. MTV News (2008-03-24). Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  8. ^ Frere-Jones, Sasha (2007-10-19). Cooler Talk. The New Yorker Online Only. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  9. ^ Blackwell, Gary L. (2007-10-25). The Cool Kids. Spin. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  10. ^ Herman, Max (2008-02-29). The Cool Kids interview. Illinois Entertainer. Retrieved on 2008-04-05.
  11. ^ Shepherd, Julianne (2007-10-30). YOU DON'T KNOW ME: The Cool Kids. Vibe. Time Warner. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  12. ^ Peters, Mitchell (2008-04-22). A Tribe Called Quest, Nas Lead Rock The Bells Bill. Billboard. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
  13. ^ Exclusive: Cool Kids Q&A. Rhapsody (2008-02-05). Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  14. ^ Audio: Lil Wayne f the Cool Kids, "Gettin It". The Fader (2007-06-13). Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  15. ^ Dunham, Alexis (2007-09-17). EA Unveils NBA Live 08 Soundtrack. IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  16. ^ HBO: Entourage Music: Season 04: Episode 44. HBO. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
  17. ^ Serpick, Evan (2007-11-14). Artist to Watch: The Cool Kids. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.
  18. ^ Maher, Dave (2007-04-27). The Cool Kids: "I Rock" and "'88". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
  19. ^ Soto, Zachary (2007-10-23). The Cool Kids sign with Chocolate Industries. Prefix Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.

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