Video: Cool Kids, “Knocked Down”
- story Peter Macia
Mikey and Chuck have the most laissez-faire approach to rap stardom of anyone we can remember since, um, no one. No one is this laid back about this shit. They’re the Joe Walsh of hip hop. And if they do anything to change, we’re going to be pissed. (via MTV)
Rustie, “FACT Mixtape 79″ MP3
The Glasgow-based producer/DJ Rustie just won our hearts with his latest mixtape for FACT Magazine: he put like everyone we love (Sweat.X, Hudson Mohawke, The-Dream etc) on it. He even included our longtime favorite “Georgia Peach”—the Atlantan “downtown” rapper Rasheeda! Like dude, people in America don’t even check for Rasheeda! How focused is your game! He also mixed some of his own sickass productions—like kicking back in the “strobe” room with a pack of gum and a bubble bath—with Ace Hood and Lil Scrappy. What do Southern rappers sound like in Glaswegian? How can we be down? Cop the mixtape over at FACT mag and check the bazonkos track list after the jump.
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posted on Sep 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Ace Hood, Cool Kids, Hudson Mohawke, Lil Scrappy, Rasheeda, Rustie, Sweat-X, The-Dream
Freeload: The Cool Kids, Gone Fishing Mixtape Hosted by Don Cannon
- story THE FADER
You gotta hand it to the Cool Kids, they know that people want to hear, and what we want to hear is too-cool-for-enthusiasm raps over minimal beats that inspire all sorts of samplespotting nerdery. But Cool Kids, how are you gonna just have GLC do some spoken word stuff? Can’t you give him a verse? Also how are you going to label “Weekend Girls” as an interlude, don’t you know that’s like a guaranteed skip? WE ALMOST SKIPPED YOU, RYAN LESLIE. SORRY. The point here is that this mixtape snuck up on us and is across the board decent—its decency enhanced, of course, by Don Cannon’s “Cannon”’s.
Download: The Cool Kids, Gone Fishing
ATL: Sk8tique Boutique Opening with E-40 and Cool Kids
- story THE FADER
Pro skater and Philadelphia native Stevie Williams is opening up a new flagship store in Atlanta’s Little Five Points tonight with some help from Don Cannon and performances by 40 Water and the Cool Kids. Check the flyer here.
A loooooongg time ago, in FADER Number 5, we put Stevie in the Gen F section of the magazine, but since we don’t have any modern way of accessing the files, we decided to just scan it from the page and put it up. Read it and then try to fill in the ten year gap of Stevie’s bio since we wrote it. And then go party with the Dirty Ghetto Kids and rumored special guests Flo-Rida, Rich Boy, Ludacris and Ne-Yo. Maybe bring some girls with you or something.
READ: Stevie Williams Gen F from FADER Number 5
Video/Freeload: Cool Kids, “Delivery Man”
- story THE FADER
Since our issue 55 release party, Le Poisson Rouge has apparently become the live long get your party on palace, as demonstrated last night by a stately throw-down in the name of Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound music collaborations. By about 11pm, Chicago’s Flosstradamus had effectively raked the party coals into a bonfire, no easy task after Brooklyn’s own Matt and Kim ate the venue by way of an epic mosh pit, crowd surfers and a steady stream of bodies discarded at the crowd’s edge. As easily the most famous “openers” of any concert outside of Summer Jam, the Cool Kids started their set with the “Delivery Man,” which is the song from their actual Green Label Sound collaboration. Mid-show, they also verified the upcoming LP When Fish Ride Bicycles is well on it’s way. In the mean time, watch rappers run hamster wheels in the video for “Delivery Man” above.
Download: Cool Kids, “Delivery Man”
Freeload: Que BILLAH f. Cool Kids, “Colors”
- story THE FADER
We have a ton of shoes in The FADER fashion closet. Some are brown. Some are dark brown. Others are even black! It’s crazy in there. So we really feel the sentiment of this song about sneaker colorways, ostensibly by Que BILLAH but made more interesting by the Cool Kids and whatever tough guy made the beat.
Download: Que BILLAH f. Cool Kids, “Colors” (via Attorney Street)
Audio/Video: Cool Kids Cake Up
- story THE FADER
It seems like just yesterday we were writing about Cool Kids being some surprise who-are-they-type guests at a party in Austin, but it wasn’t yesterday, it was a year ago. And since then, little dudes signed to Chocolate Industries and have now released their first big deal EP The Bake Sale. If you have not had internet access in the last year, you can hear all the recent faves like “88″ and “Black Mags” as well as a whole mess of new joints. We got a stream of the EP below as well as a video of Mikey and Chuck doing a little beatbox freestyle thing at the Orisue offices in Cali from the folks at imeem, so listen and then go buy it at iTunes or wherever because it’s only ten bucks.
Video: Mickey Factz f. Cool Kids, “Rockin ‘N Rollin”
- story THE FADER
Ian just put this up with some opaque references to Mickey being unhappy about it, but as everyone from Barack Obama to your mom knows by now, once it’s on YouTube, you might as well just come clean. We can’t find anything wrong with the video itself, especially since dudes are wearing Hood By Air creations and Hood By Air-ist Raoul even makes a cameo, but we understand how these things can get. Like that Hood By Air video linked above? We fought for days about who was going to get to hold the microphone. Still think about it. Anyway, when you’re done watching that video make sure to download the compiled tracks from Mickey’s Leak series below.
Download: Mickey Factz, The Leak Vol. 1: The Understanding
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posted on Apr 28, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Cool Kids, freeload, hip hop, Hood by Air, Mickey Factz
Freeload: Cool Kids, “Oscar”
- story THE FADER
They sampled MC Hammer. We’re not mad. Thanks to DJ Benzi for the song.
Download: Cool Kids, “Oscar”
Live: Kanye & The Kids at One Step Beyond
- story THE FADER
There were already a few pre-show rumors circulating about a Kanye appearance at Flavorpill’s party at the ANMH Planetarium last Friday, so we weren’t surprised to find the other performers at their sartorial best—most notably Kid Sister in a Jetsons-appropriate monochrome swing dress. Kanye, on the other hand jumped on stage for “Pro Nails” in an outfit that was totally anti-spacey. No futuristic specs or planetary moon boots, instead our man shows up looking decidedly vintage in a Starsky and Hutch fur jacket and a pin that might as well read “MJ for president.” Smuggled on stage by his bodyguards, the performance was actually perfect timing (Kid Sister had just rallied all the ladies in the audience for a huge girlie sing-a-long) for a simultaneous meeting of spontaneous enthusiasm (Kanye’s, the crowd’s, Kid Sister’s) that had people climbing up on to every single planet/meteorite/satellite on the museum floor to get closer to the good vibes. All-in-all a pretty stellar way to end a good night, although falling asleep to the soothing sounds of Robert Redford who narrates the Space Show upstairs comes a very close second. Check some more dazzling photos after the jump and over on Flavorpill.
