The Cool Kids
Part of the mid-2000s hip-hop movement that found kids in all-over prints rapping about their shoes and their favorite forms of transportation (which often weren't cars), the Cool Kids proved to be both an Internet and live show phenomenon. The duo of Mikey Rocks (born Antoine Reed) and Chuck Inglish (or Evan Ingersoll) met in mid-2005 after Mickey came across some of Chuck's beats online and liked what he heard. They met up in their Chicago-area homes (where Mikey was born and raised; Chuck lived in Mount Clemens, MI, about 30 miles north of Detroit, u...[more]
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The Bake Sale is the highly anticipated debut CD from the breakout Chicago-based duo known as The Cool Kids. The Cool Kids have literally taken over the music press for the last year - Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, XXL, Urb and countless other magazines have acknowledged the Cool Kids as the next band that will change the way we think and feel about music on a large scale.
CD $15.99
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VINYL FORMAT. The Bake Sale is the highly anticipated debut CD from the breakout Chicago-based duo known as The Cool Kids. The Cool Kids have literally taken over the music press for the last year - Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, XXL, Urb and countless other magazines have acknowledged the Cool Kids as the next band that will change the way we think and feel about music on a large scale.
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VINYL FORMAT. Chicago duo Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks are The Cool Kids, the self-professed "new black version of the Beastie Boys" who are taking the world by storm with their unique brand of back-to-the-future boom bap. Part of the new wave of artists rising out of Chicago's club rap scene (Flosstradamus, Kid Sister), Cool Kids have established a rabid fan-base through non-stop touring and deafening internet buzz. Yet the duo are special because of their songs, not the hype. Taking inspiration from bang [ read more ]
12" $12.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Mickey Rocks and Chuck Inglish mean business with the single "Black Mags" backed with "88." From their rope chains to their spare, bass-heavy beats, Chuck and Mikey bring a knowing wink to the style of 1980s heroes like Eric B and EPMD. Their anthem "88" cops a mantra from Nas' "Made You Look" track, while on the B-Side the duo sounds effortlessly of-the-moment, earning its boast of being "the black Beastie Boys."
12" $10.99
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Despite reams of online hype and commercial anticipation, the release of the Cool Kids' debut EP still radiated sonic excitement, a blast at once sharp, funny, and intimate. Here, after all, is a triumph of absolute aestheticism. The name fulfills itself, not just in that these kids do seem pretty cool (all 16-bit name-drops and shoe talk), but because musically each moment -- each immaculately chosen drum hit, each spare sci-fi sonic embellishment, each depth-charge punch line -- is precision-placed for [ read more ]
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