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Epicurus.com - Bake Sale
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $10.99
Your Save: $ 3.99 ( 27% )
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Manufacturer: Chocolate Industries
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0677514005922
Label: Chocolate Industries
Manufacturer: Chocolate Industries
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Chocolate Industries
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Studio: Chocolate Industries
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The Cool Kids are a hip hop duo from Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. The duo consists of Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed (originally from Matteson, Illinois) and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll (originally from Mount Clemens, Michigan). The Bake Sale is the second EP released by The Cool Kids.
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Summary: Old school
Comment: Pop this CD in and you will almost think you are listening to an old school album from way back.
This album is very well written and the beats are great. Some good bass for rattling your car. It is good to hear an album that does not cater to the mainstream of pop crap today.
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Summary: Bass, Bass, Clap..."The New Black Version of the Beastie Boys"
Comment: If you like your hip-hop retro style square in the roundhouse of 1988, well don't look further, these here Cool Kids and their wackity wack, "The Bake Sale," will keep your toes tappin', head bobbin', and body poppin' right through Fall, into Winter, Spring and back to summer 'till ya hot again boi!
Actually, goegraphically dislocated hip-hop duo dj's or whatever one calls them, rapping Mikey Rocks from Detroit, MI and Chuck English providing the beats from Chi-town, mix all their influences and talents creating this unique mash-up of...hmmmm...I'd say LL Cool J, a little Nelly, a whole lot of Slick Rick the Ruler, and you've got some class A hip hop for the new generation hip hop hipsters.
As far as the music goes, El Kids O' Cool, come screaming out the gates with a club dance heavy bass beat and all these spoken word replacements for actual beats. Clap, Clap, Bass. I'd say that's kind of innovative and works well. "Yo, what up man? / If you cool what you do? / Warm it up then / Can't hold it when it's hot / put it down then / i left my kids in day care / pick 'em up then / I'm trying to buy some new / What you trying to spend / All i've got is five dollars / So you broke man?" And so the conversation goes with the verbal interchange between Mikey and Chuck evidently about getting dinner one night. This song is a bonefied killer. Freakin' brilliant.
Then there's track 9 "Bassment Party," that starts with the line stolen from you know that other popular rap song, "...they say if you don't got no money take your broke arse home." This one goes back old school hip hop even with that keyboard dramatic flash used in some of the early stuff from Grandmaster Flash and Run DMC's music. I'm not sure what they are really talking about when they are saying, "Now let me tell you the rest of it / All you trying to get like me / So if U ugly keep your hands by your side / and if you're not then put them in the sky / Hey, Where's the party / Say you heard me say it / Right around my waist." So I was right there with the whole ugly keep your hands by your side and I was dancing by my computer playing these MPwhatever numbered things and it was kind of like a MMW houseparty of one and I'm feeling 19 again and then there's that line, "...right around my waist." I don't understand? Most parties usually occur in one's house like when we have Clem and Cletus over for bar-b-que pigs and whatever else you can throw on the grill right? U still with me? But the last time I recollected the only thing going on around the waist at parties is just loosening up those big 'ole Texas rodeo belt buckles to allow for some waist expansion for the continual downing of the Shiner Bock. So I'm confused because that's not really a party right around the waist? It's more kind of hickish sad I guess...but Texas none the same boi!
So if you are still with me here and U are a digger of all things old school hip-hop mixed in with some new world production and really talented singing-rapping, get down with the Cool Kids' Bake Sale. If you have kids or want to blast this around the office though I recommend the radio version as you kind of don't want your 5-year old rappin' at school about the party right around his waist if you know what I mean. If you can clarify the whole party around the waist thing, leave a comment here boi, while your listening to your new Amazon download Cool Kids' songs, boi. ...mmw
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Summary: '88 sound captured with a twist of the screw.
Comment: These guys are great. It remains to be seen if this is fluke but I like what I hear so far. They managed to capture the 88 sound to a T! Hints of Gucci Crew, MC Ade and even Dynamix II are here.
They give props to the Beasties at one point too.
Standout tracks:
- Mikey Rocks
- Black Mags
The way they rap over the semi-screwed 808s is terrific. Blast this in your ride or thump the walls in the house, this album is going to catch you nodding.
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Summary: New, Fresh Sound
Comment: Excellent album. Although it may not be the best hip-hop album of the year, it definately has a very fresh sound, you can't help but smile and nod your head along to alot of the tracks on this album, especially What's Up Man and Mikey Rocks.
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Summary: Why DIdnt anyone do this earlier
Comment: This was a cd amazon had been recommending for a while now and I finally just bought it so it would disappear of the page. This CD is cheesy but cheesy in an awesome way. Like other reviewers stated the lyrics including references to pagers and sega's won't blow your mind they fit the overblown drum machine braggadocious b-boy vibe the Cool Kids were going for. Especially where rap is either trash (Lil Wayne btw why is he on all 4 radio stations anytime I listen!!??) or the underground where they definitely can take themselves a bit too serious, this cd fits as a great alternative. Everyone who has heard it begged me for a copy. All in All BUY IT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THIS IS AWESOME STUFF!
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