The buzz around The Cool Kids is so potent nowadays that it may be un-hip to not know about them.
After their first official EP, The Bake Sale, released earlier this week, the duo sat down with okayplayer.com to talk about the scene they came out of, their main influences, and their expectations to top their own music.
Sure to turn some heads, The Cool Kids expressed their discontent for the plethora of rap artists who bring their literal street demeanor to the studio booth. “You get a lot of rappers that do these interviews and they ask about their subject matter being so violent and graphic and the answer they [rappers] give is ‘I’m from the projects, that’s what I know.’ Yeah but so the fuck what? What does the two streets you live on have anything to do with you? Because you just became a sheep from that. That statement right there just solidified you with sheepness.”
Having a unique sound themselves, Mikey described the vast array of music that captures the diversity in their style coming from the Midwest. “It’s kind of like a weird scene because at any given party you could see a mix of punk kids and Hip Hop kids and indie rock kids and all of that, just all in the same party all having a good time listening to a bunch of different stuff. Like, DJ’s will spin ‘Ay Bay Bay’ and then Hall & Oates. It’s just fun to see how many different genres of music all come into one and just kick it and have a good time out in Chicago. It’s like a real chill vibe, kind of like a free spirit thing.”
Though their most popular record thus far is arguably “Black Mags,” The Cool Kids know their future can only bring bigger crowd pleasers. “The fun of it all is to know that whatever song that you got that’s your best song right now is to keep topping that. That’s what we constantly do. ”
The Bake Sale is available on iTunes exclusively for the time being, with a hard copy release in two to three weeks.
Reported By Edwin Ortiz
