17 August, 2022Print
The Cool Kids Announce NIGHT SCHOOL: A Special Night Of Food, Comedy + Music At Chicago’s Thalia Hall On September 24
Share New Music Video For “Scam Likely,” Watch Here
NIGHT SCHOOL Tickets On Sale Today At 12PM CT Here
Today, The Cool Kids — the esteemed duo of rapper Sir Michael Rocks and rapper-producer Chuck Inglish — announce NIGHT SCHOOL, a special night of food, comedy, and music coming to Chicago’s Thalia Hall on Saturday, September 24. With NIGHT SCHOOL, The Cool Kids turn the modern-day rap concert on its head, offering a three-part multi-faceted experience that seeks to capture a cultural heft unseen since DJ Kool Herc’s NYC parties.
To celebrate this announcement, The Cool Kids have also dropped a video for“Scam Likely,” from their 2022 album Before Shit Got Weird, released this March. The track’s potent blend of blown-out 808s, discordant jazz samples, and signature lines about mattress preferences and remixing Cup Noodles into gourmet pasta are set to a video riddled with VHS distortion. Watch “Scam Likely,” directed by Lonnie Edwards and filmed in multiple locations around Chicago, including noted Vietnamese spot Phodega, here.
NIGHT SCHOOL kicks off with FIRST PERIOD: a dinner curated by Chuck Inglish; followed by SECOND PERIOD: a LIVE Mystery School Podcast; and finishes with THIRD PERIOD: a performance from The Cool Kids & Friends. Tickets for NIGHT SCHOOL go on-sale today at 12pm CT and will be available in three tiers:
—General Admission grants fans access to THIRD PERIOD. Guests are TBA.
—VIP grants fans access to THIRD PERIOD as well as SECOND PERIOD to witness a live taping of the Mystery School Podcast, Sir Michael Rocks’ hit Twitch livestreaming show with co-host Owen Bones. Mystery School, an Official Twitch Partner, is the first interactive late-night show that intertwines comedy, gaming, music, and daily news headlines. Past guests on Mystery School include Super Bowl champion Martellus Bennett, GRAMMY-winning producer Lil Aaron (Lizzo), artist Jahlil Nzinga, VICE News’ Dex Digi, and so many more.
—Deluxe grants fans access to FIRST PERIOD as well as the rest of theNIGHT SCHOOL festivities. For FIRST PERIOD, music-icon-turned-Chef Chuck Inglish teams up with local culinary artists to collaborate on a fixed-menu that will have The Cool Kids community tasting what Chuck describes as “the resounding effect that the Black culture has had on the culinary world.” He continues: “So many of the dishes I’ll be preparing have been foundations of many households across America’s multicultural communities.”
NIGHT SCHOOL tickets go on-sale here at 12pm CT today.
Praise For The Cool Kids
“After all these years, the Cool Kids are still finding ways to reinvent themselves.”
– Pitchfork
“Vintage hip-hop fetishists of the highest order.”
– The New York Times
“Crispy, minimalist Chicago rap greats."
– Stereogum
“The Cool Kids created an enduring style more than a decade ago. They sound like they can cruise through several more vibe shifts without a scratch.”
– Chicago Reader
“The Beastie Boys of The Midwest.”
– Chicago Tribune
“Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks have consistently woven slick references to their golden age Hip Hop heroes into their own futuristic tapestries”
– HipHopDX
“The Cool Kids’ magnetic chemistry and ridiculous humor has made them one of the most revered rap acts of the past decade.”
– Paste
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