Cool Kids Bake Sale EP is finally droppin! Just in case you have been sleeping for the past year, the Cool Kids is a Chicago based rap duo who brings a fresh new sound to the hip hop game but still holding true to the old school sound. Check them out if you haven't. Here is a tracklist to the upcoming EP:

01 What Up Man
02 One Two
03 Mikey Rocks
04 88
05 What It Is
06 Black Mags
07 A Little Bit Cooler
08 Gold and a Pager
09 Bassment Party
10 Jingling

Yessir, the EP will be available on itunes on May 20 and in stores on June 10. So mark your calenders, Boom!

-baroke randy
currently listening to: cool kids - oscar

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Talib Kweli took a stroll through the Midwest to Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI last night and I was there upfront and center. Yes. Hip hop can exist even at my medium-sized, minimally diversified university in smaller-than-Chicago-sized city of Milwaukee, cheesehead Wisconsin. It was a pretty hype performance despite the relatively small crowd. But the intimate setting was refreshing -- something the guy standing next to me wasn't. Kweli admitted to his initial lack of excitement in putting on a show at MU, but he ate his words, as the small crowd consisted of some big fans.

I've never been to a Talib Kweli show before and my knowledge of his music career appears to be minimal so by no means am I a Talib Kweli expert. But I do know his reputation for his socially conscious and sometimes political lyrics. Whether it was his intention or not, I found it slightly shocking, yet oddly appropriate for Talib to end his song 'Hell' by addressing the unnecessary religious discrimination that exists within our society (at my Jesuit university by the way). It definitely gave him credibility in my book: that he puts his fame to good use, even if it is in a small way. Thumbs up to going to a Talib Kweli show hopefully near you.

-baroke victoria
currently listening to: talib kweli - eat to live

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