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Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish make up The Cool Kids duo. The young Chicago based group have their debut album The Bake Sale, scheduled to release May, 20th 2008. While surfing the net, I stumbled across the group. I’ve been listening to them on imeem ever since.

The group reminds you of the Bay (Oakland) Area group, The Pack, with the cool geek boy swag of N.E.R.D, and while giving off this vibe, you can since a strong inspiration from Run DMC. They sport bright retro style clothes and rock fat gold chains all while ridding a Dyno bike with black mags. But that’s enough on their style.

The hot single Gold and a Pager records the ever so trendy screwed up effects, a hard beat, and a steady nostalgic melody that takes you back to playing Super Mario in your basement. The group isn’t all beats either. Chuck Inglish lays down the tracks and raps along side of his partner in rhyme, Mike Rocks making a very lyrical collaboration. Although the content of the lyrics consist of girls, bikes, afterschool activities, they are very captivating; in fact, I caught myself nodding my head to a couple of songs while writing this review. The Cool Kids are definitely going to be in the summer line up for 2008. Catch The Cool Kids on Imeem or MySpace at www.myspace.com/gocoolkids and the endless source for videos, YouTube.

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