Where the Cool Kids Are
By Megan • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Music, News for Creatives (archives)“OVER THE PAST year and a half, a new crowd of omnivorous, beat-obsessive DJs and rappers — Flosstradamus, Kid Sister, Hollywood Holt, the Cool Kids, Mano — has done what nobody’s managed to do in years: developed what you could conceivably call a Chicago hip-hop sound. Though a number of local rappers have broken big in Kanye’s wake — Twista, GLC, Lupe Fiasco — none has really catalyzed a Chicago-specific style, much less one that could rival the sounds coming out of Houston, the Dirty South, or the Bay Area.
The Cool Kids are one of those acts. Mikey (aka Antoine Reed) is a 19-year-old from the south suburbs, and Chuck (aka Evan Ingersoll) is a 22-year-old import from suburban Detroit. They have yet to put out a CD, a 12-inch, or even a cassette — everything they’ve released so far has been posted to their MySpace page or distributed to blogs as an MP3 — but in the past year they’ve gone from making beats for each other to dropping verses alongside the biggest rapper in the world.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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