Straight 80's (The Cool Kids)

The Gold Chains, Nylon Jackets and Beepers just might be back on the rise as for this new young up and coming Rap Group from Chicago is definitely making it Cool once again. The Cool Kids was once your typical college students that surf the net, loved music and have a drive to be rich and successful in the near future. For this rap duo Mickey Rocks (born Antoine Reed) and Chuck Inglish (or Evan Ingersoll) met in 2005 after Mickey came across some of Chuck's beats online and liked what he heard.

After getting in contact with Chuck, Mickey went to Chi-town with the intention of making beats to sell to other artists. Immediately the two fused together and realized that they had the talent to not only produce beats but rap on them as well. In 2007, though they had yet to release any material outside of what was posted on their MySpace site or MP3 blogs, the group started receiving a lot of press attention from fellow-Chicagoans.

This led to a spot at New York's CMJ Music Marathon, where they shared a showcase with DJ A-Trak -- who offered to put out their EP --and they began to open up concerts for M.I.A. on her solo tour. Which led to them being signed to Chocolate Industries, where they released their debut, The Bake Sale EP, in January 2008, with major plans in the near future. You might have also seen this rap duo in the Zune ads on TV as well so be sure to look out for them because they are definitely on the rise and about to bring back a fresh old skool, new skool feel to the Hip-Hop game once again!