Kool A.D.

Kool A.D.
Kool A.D. performing with Das Racist at Governors Ball in New York City in 2011
Background information
Born	(1983-11-16) November 16, 1983 (age 33) San Francisco Bay Area, California
Genres	Alternative hip hop, experimental hip hop, indie rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, rapper
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Veehead, Greedhead
Associated acts	Das Racist, Boy Crisis, Party Animal, Meyhem Lauren, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Lakutis, Mike Finito

Victor Vazquez (born November 16, 1983), also known by his stage name Kool A.D., is an American musician, rapper, author, and artist. He is from the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Vazquez is best known for being a member of the New York-based rap group Das Racist, though he has also been a member of the bands Boy Crisis and Party Animal. Vazquez has also released his own solo material, including numerous mixtapes. Mother Jones magazine described his work as "a thoughtful effort to deconstruct and rearrange cultural objects in ways that challenge our deepest assumptions."

Vazquez, who is of Afro-Cuban and Italian descent, originally hails from the San Francisco Bay area of California. He attended high school at the Arthur Andersen Community Learning Center in Alameda and college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English. While at Wesleyan, Vazquez played drums for the band La Spanka and formed the group Boy Crisis. At Wesleyan, Vazquez met future Das Racist bandmate Himanshu Suri as well as Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT. In early 2014, Vazquez married Cult Days, a fashion designer and musician he had known since he was 15. They now have a child, whom Vazquez wrote about in his column in Vice Magazine.

While a student at Wesleyan University in 2005, Vazquez formed the group Boy Crisis, originally playing drums, and then later moving to vocals. Although Boy Crisis signed a record deal with B-Unique Records in 2008, B-Unique never released the album.