Illinois hip-hop outfit The Cool Kids are no more.
The fresh-faced duo of Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks came to
public attention in 2007 with their shamelss brand of Golden Age revivalism and
no-frills boom-bap. One of the more successful rap acts to build a following on
MySpace, the pair got an early push from Diplo, and signed to Fool’s Gold for
their gold-plated ’88′ single. Accruing buzz for their The
Bake Sale EP, the
pair signed to XL and toured with the likes of M.I.A. The momentum dissipated,
however: debut LP When Fish Ride Bicycles was expected to come out in 2008, but
didn’t emerge until 2011. Their last mixtape was 2010′s Tacklebox.
As AllHipHop report, Inglish and Rocks
have decided to retire The Cool Kids as an entity. Rocks stressed that the
group were finished, although kept the door open to the possibility of them
recording again together under another name: “I don’t think we’re gonna
come out again as The Cool Kids. We might come together as something else
different, but as The Cool Kids, no, because we’re not the same people, we’ve
changed and evolved into two different artists. We can’t come back and do the
same thing again, you know?
“We’ll probably do something else, but as The Cool Kids and as
Shark Week, no, those ideas are done, and we’re on to something different now.
I wouldn’t do that; I think that would be a step backwards to go back and do
that right now, so as far as I know for now, no I wouldn’t see us doing another
Cool Kids project as “The Cool Kids.”
Both rappers have stayed busy with their solo projects: Inglish
dropped the WRKOUT tape earlier this year, and Rocks put
out theLap Of Lux disc. ’88′ is below.
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