In 2010, Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks teamed up with Gary, Indiana's Freddie Gibbs and Cleveland's Chip tha Ripper to form the " super group" P.O.C. The group claims they haven't put out an album because of having issues with their former label Chocolate Industries for the past three years, but according to the group these issues are now settled and they are working on putting out When Fish Ride Bicycles.
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Chuck Inglish worked with Chip tha Ripper and produced his debut album Gift Raps in its entirety. A new mixtape called Tacklebox came out on May 31, 2010. Their song "A Little Bit Cooler" was used in a "Most Valuable Puppets" commercial from Nike with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant entitled "Mrs. Their debut album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, was released July 12, 2011. The group's second official mixtape, Gone Fishing was released on May 5, 2009. Producer Don Cannon said in an interview with XXL, that he will be working with The Cool Kids for their new album. The Cool Kids also performed at the 2009 Voodoo Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. They will also be headlining the "NBA 2K Bounce Tour" along with Q-Tip. The Cool Kids have said in an interview that their success has been gradual. They also recorded an original track, "2K Pennies," for the soundtrack of NBA 2K9. The group's song "Bassment Party" was featured in the Septemepisode of the HBO hit comedy Entourage. The duo has been endorsed by Mountain Dew for their single, "Delivery Man", to which commercials and the music video have aired on MTV2. According to Rolling Stone, "since "Black Mags" debuted, the Cool Kids have gone from an underground sensation in their native Chicago to the hottest ticket at New York's CMJ festival." They were listed in Rolling Stone's Ten Artists to Watch in 2008.
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The Cool Kids have been featured in the video games NBA Live 08 and MLB 2K8 with the song "88", in Need for Speed Nitro, with The Bloody Beetroots in the song Awesome, and in the episode "The First Cut Is the Deepest" from HBO's TV series Entourage with the song "Mikey Rocks". 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. One of the duo's singles, " Black Mags", was featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial, along with Sara Bareilles. The group also appeared at SUNY Purchase's Culture Shock event in April 2009. The group toured across Australia in February 2008 and also appeared at the Laneway Festival.
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and they also joined the bill of the 2008 Rock the Bells hip hop festival on select dates. They have been on tour, opening for M.I.A.
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The duo uses music software program Reason from Propellerhead Software to produce their music. Ingersoll has been the producer for tracks released thus far, but both work in rapping and production. The group has revealed on its MySpace page that The Cool Kids' debut album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, will be released in 2008, though it did not come out until 2011. Eventually, The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label. Īll of their material had been released solely on the band's MySpace page -their recording contract came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Media Music Festival, on July 15, 2007. Of their time with Fool's Gold Records, the Cool Kids felt they weren’t getting enough attention: “When your boss is on tour with Kanye West, it’s easy to have timelines missed,” said Chuck in an interview. They also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool's Gold Records label, which they did, but only for one single. At this performance (in a venue called Town Hall Pub), the duo met the DJ 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. Ingersoll began promoting the new duo's material, and it was eventually booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance. They were inspired by golden age hip hop and artists like LL Cool J and Eric B. The two met to discuss terms of the beat's sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours.
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Reed and Ingersoll first exchanged conversations in 2005 when Reed found a beat on MySpace that Ingersoll had produced. Reed attended Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago, Illinois while Ingersoll had attended Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan where he played football and basketball.