Chuck Inglish
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Chuck Inglish (left) performing with Sir Michael Rocks in July 2008
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Evan Ingersoll |
| Born |
October 7, 1984 Mount Clemens, Michigan |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Sounds Like Fun Records, Federal Prism Records |
| Associated acts | The Cool Kids, Mac Miller, King Chip, Asher Roth |
Evan Ingersoll (born October 7, 1984), better known by his stage name Chuck Inglish, is an American rapper from Mount Clemens, Michigan and one half of the hip-hop duo The Cool Kids with Sir Michael Rocks. His debut album Convertibles was released on April 8, 2014.
Raised in Mount Clemens, Michigan until he moved to the Chicago area at the age of 18, Chuck Inglish born Evan Ingersoll is one half of the 2007-formed alternative hip-hop duo The Cool Kids. Ingersoll attended Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan where he played football and basketball. He met Sir Michael Rocks in 2005 when Reed found a beat on MySpace that Ingersoll had produced. The two met to discuss terms of the beat's sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours. They were inspired by golden age hip hop and artists like LL Cool J and Eric B. & Rakim. Ingersoll began promoting the new duo's material, and it was eventually booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance. At their performance (in a venue called Town Hall Pub), the duo met the DJ Diplo who offered to release a mixtape of their unreleased tracks titled Totally Flossed Out on his label Mad Decent, though it was eventually released on C.A.K.E. Recordings. They also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool's Gold Records label, which they did, but only for one single. During their time with Fool's Gold Records, the Cool Kids felt they weren’t getting enough attention: “When your boss is on tour with Kanye West, it’s easy to have timelines missed,” said Chuck in an interview.
All of their material had been released solely on the group's MySpace page—their recording contract came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Media Music Festival, on July 15, 2007. Eventually, The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label. In 2008, the group revealed on their MySpace page that their debut album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, would be released in 2008, though it did not come out until 2011. Ingersoll has been the producer for tracks released thus far, but both work in rapping and production. The duo uses music software program Reason from Propellerhead Software to produce their music. In 2007, they opened for M.I.A. on her KALA Tour, and they also performed at the 2008 Rock the Bells hip hop festival. The group toured across Australia in February 2008 and also appeared at the Laneway Festival. The group also appeared at SUNY Purchase's Culture Shock event in April 2009. One of the duo's singles, "Black Mags", was featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial, along with Sara Bareilles. In the same year, the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled "Gettin' It.
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