Day Five: The Cool Kids

"Mikey Rocks" Reed and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll make up the duo The Cool Kids. The Chicago natives will be playing this year's Lollapalooza as one of the few true hip-hop acts the festival has to offer. Before 2007, the two mostly issued their music through their Myspace and Blog with their own label C.A.K.E. Recordings, then jumped to the independent label Chocolate Industries to release their debut album When Fish Ride Bicycles (later this year.)

Mikey and Evan have already released two EP's however; Totally Flossed Out and The Bake Sale with the singles "88" and "Black Mags," along with their free mixtape That's Stupid. Dubbing the duo with articulate adjectives describing their sound and influences may be a bit too extravagant for the nature of the sound. So, the simple phrase of 'Badass' should be able to convince you guys.

Here's the video for 'Black Mags.'