The Cool Kids: Gone Fishin

May, 05. 2009 by Andrew in Music

Chuck Inglish (Evan Ingersoll of Mount Clemens, Michigan) and Mikey Rocks (Antoine Reed of Matteson, Illinois) refer to their duo as “real finding real.” Their journey together started in 2005 when Mikey sought out a beat produced by Chuck that he had put on MySpace and when they finally met to produce the track, ended up working on it for two hours before they realized their shared passion for the golden-aged, Erik B and Rakim style of hip-hop.

After journeying through DJ A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold label and Chocolate Industries, they settled with C.A.K.E. recordings, a subsidiary of Chocolate to put out “The Bake Sale” in 2008 and “When Fish Ride Bicycles” in 2009. They have since been featured in several tv shows, video games and movies and have been listed on both Rolling Stones’ and XXL’s top ten hip-hop acts to follow from 2009.

When asked about their stance on people categorizing their sound as retro-rap: “I think writers just can’t come up with any new words for what we’re doing, because we’re not “retro-” anything. Like, in “Gold and a Pager,” we’re not talking about what was current-pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them. So, I think that’s the line we’re on. We’re doing new stuff, and creating our own lane, and we want people to see that.”

Their latest mixtape “Gone Fishin” was just released and has left all of us waiting for more for when their actual album drops later this year.