Contineing Music Awareness Week (Cool kids)

Name: Cool kids
Occupation: hip hop/Backpacker/rocker
Genre: hip-hop,skater, 80's Hip Hop in 21st Century
Contemporaries: Pharell
Compares: Lupe Fiasco,Star Trax,Clipse,The Pac



When the Cool Kids posted the video "Black Mags," on their MySpace page this fall, they were hoping to do for bikes what Lupe Fiasco's "Kick Push" did for skateboards. "Not everybody can relate to skateboarding, because it's hard to do," says the retro-rap duo's Chuck, 23, who broke his ankle doing skater tricks last year. "But everybody rides bikes." Since "Black Mags" debuted, the Cool Kids have gone from an underground sensation in their native Chicago to the hottest ticket at New York's CMJ festival, where they played with A-trak (Kanye West's DJ) and wowed Warner Music Group CEO Lyor Cohen.From their rope chains to their spare, bass-heavy beats, Chuck and Mikey bring a knowing wink to the style of Eighties heroes like Eric B and EPMD. Their anthem, "88," redo's a track from from Nas' "Made You Look" the duo sounds like music for the soul while also sounding refeshed and new to the ears of the hustla earning its boast of being "the black Beastie Boys." of the 21st century you can also catch them in commericals rock'n to the tunes of the black Mags track

*shout out to Rolling Stone Magazine for the Co-Ed*