The Cool Kids are a hip hop duo from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Antoine “Sir Michael Rocks” Reed and Evan “Chuck Inglish” Ingersoll (originally from Detroit) signed to the independent Chocolate Industries via their own label C.A.K.E. Recordings. After meeting in 2005, and releasing three mixtapes onto the internet through their MySpace page, they released their debut EP The Bake Sale in 2008. The members of The Cool Kids met in 2005 when Reed found a beat on the Internet that Ingersoll had produced. The two met to discuss terms of the beat’s sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours. They were inspired by hip hop in the 1980s and artists like Eric B. & Rakim. Ingersoll began promoting the new duo’s material, and it was eventually booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance. At this performance (in a venue called Town Hall Pub), the duo met the electronic musician 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. They were listed in Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists to Watch in 2008, and their debut LP, When Fish Ride Bicycles, will finally be released on July 12, 2011 (exclusively through iTunes).
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