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THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008
Chicago’s The Cool Kids
party like its 1988 again
BY JAMIE WILLIAMS
SENIOR WRITER
Harkening back to the days
when hip-hop was more concerned
with part>ing. rocking fly kicks and
standard drum machine beats. The
Cool Kids' debut. The Bake Sale, is
a cohesive collection of minimal
beats and agile rhymes.
The duo of Chuck Inglish and
Mikey Rocks recall A Tribe Called
Quest's heyday with minimal beats
and songs perfectly prepared to
pound trunks all summer.
The pair brings to its debut
equal parts party rap and lyrical
mediation on a life honed on clas
sic hip-hop LPs.
The Cool Kids were the sub
urban kids (one from Chicago,
the other from Detroit) that late
'Bos Def Jam records were geared
toward.
And it sounds as though they
ate it up. learning from the work of
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MUSIC REVIEW
THE COOL KIDS
THE BAKE SALE
HIP HOP
Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons.
The crux of the record is basical
ly sewn up on the first track. “What
Up Man,’ when Inglish raps, “FYI
I'm F-L-Y," over a beat of the Kids'
repeated “tick-tick-clap," imitating
the classic 808 beats of the land
mark records that The Cool Kids
reference.
And when they start the next
track, ‘One Two,’ with the admis
sion that they are “the young, black
version of the Beastie Boys," the
image-building is complete.
And image is important to The
Cool Kids.
From their vintage apparel to
their rhymes about BMX bikes,
they want everyone to know just
how cool they actually are.
In many ways. The Cool Kids
represent a movement within
music as a whole.
The two MCs met on MySpace,
and at least three of The Bake Sale's
10 tracks were circulated widely on
the Internet several months before
any official release.
But those tracks still offer amaz
ingly catchy, incredibly accurate
Diversions
but never heavy-handed looks at
hip-hop past and present.
It is a testament to the skills
exhibited on the album that
though much of the material has
made the rounds, the record still
sounds fresh. And the previously
unheard tracks only bolster The
Bake Sale.
The best track here is “88," fea
turing a hook first used by Nas on
his retro-tinged single “Made You
Look." Inglish and Rocks rhyme
like it's, well, 1988. Over an indus
trial beat, the Kids promote retro
Nikes and rooftop parties.
“You need to take some classes
on how to be cool/In fact I'm super
intendent of the school," is a simple
enough declaration, right?
There are times, though, where
it gets a little tedious and a bit too
contrived.
But the record’s short 30 min
utes save it from itself, and it ends
up as a fun listen from a duo w ho
has earned its buzz, proving them
selves more than capable MCs and
producers.
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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ it is
finally here. And it's not that bad.
The movie sees Carrie Bradshaw
and her flock of relationship-chal
lenged hangers-on through a tumul
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soundtrack, and though it sounds
terrifying, it's really entertaining.
The movie is beautiful, filled
with amazing shoes and clothes,
and the story goes down interest
ing directions that help it tran
scend romantic-comedy cliche.
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to show any emotion.
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the performances of all the leads
that's never quite apparent in the
show. These ladies obviously really
are excited to be slipping back into
the characters that brought them
international fame and fortune.
The only blight is Jennifer
Hudson’s performance as the wide
eyed Midwesterner hired to sort
Carrie's life after disaster.
Apparently, after getting the boot
from “American Idol." someone told
Hudson she should try her hand at
acting. Then someone else decided
to maintain this charade by giving
her an Oscar. There's not ev en an
awkwardly inserted musical number
to give any reason for her existence.
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For all the haters out there, the
movie is all the things everyone says
about it: it’s vapid; the plot’s too
convenient; it's filled with clothes
and shoes and dumb talks of love.
But instead of being a love letter
to New York or relationships, as the
show was, it's a love letter to the fans
of the show who made it a übiquitous
pop-culture icon. And it’s perfect.
It's funny (mostly because
the groaning puns are kept to a
minimum), and the overarching
themes of friendship transcending
any guy problems undercut cyni
cism brought with the characters
encroaching old age.
If you’re not into “Sex and the
City," you will hate this movie, but if
you still watch the lame, badly cen
sored version every week on TBS,
this will be exactly what you’ve
been waiting for.
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