The Cool Kids of Ilinois

Cool Kids that just with they are. Their name fits them just right. With their dope lyrics and original style these guys are the future. The Cool Kids are a duo from Illinois. The duo consits of Miley Rocks and Chuck Inglish, who is origially from Detroit. They met in the year 2005 when famous producer LA Reid found a beat on the internet that Ingersoll had produced.They met to discuss the terms beat's sale, then just eventually 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 also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool’s Gold label, which they did, but only for one single.
Up until until now they have just been posting their music on their myspace page. Their record deal didn't come until their performances at the CMJ festival and the Pitchfork festival as well. The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label, which had previously been the label of rapper Lady Sovereign.
They have been and currently are on tour, opening for M.I.A. One of the duo’s singles, “Black Mags”, is featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial.
In the same year, the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled “Gettin’ It”, which will reportedly appear on the DJ’s future album Get Right. The band has been featured in the video game NBA Live 08 with the song “88”, and in the episode “The First Cut Is the Deepest” from HBO’s TV series Entourage with the song “I Rock.” They were listed in Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists to Watch in 2008.
These guys are the hottest sound that is out and is sweeping the nation of hip-hop. With their influential sound of 80's hip-hop they are on their way to the top. All of their beats are inspired by 80's hip-hop beats. So which one is better 80's rap or the new generation of hip-hop? Listen to some of their tracks on http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cool+Kids/+tracks and tell me what you think.