Nice Kicks: Retro sportswear in hip-hop culture is bigger than it’s ever been. Do you feel you fathered a style?
Mikey Rocks: Yes. Definitely fathered that.
Chuck Inglish: When we were doing it we weren’t trying to be trendy; we found it again. We first started rocking snapbacks when we found them in this mega-mall. This lady had boxes and boxes of them from the 90s and we cashed her out on them! We’d go to partys and rock them and people would look at us like we got a new car. To us it never went out of style.
Nice Kicks: Who inspired your style growing up?
Mikey Rocks: My older brother, sister, dad, and their friends. I was the youngest so I was always looking around to everybody around me for what was cool. Rap music taught me a lot too.
Chuck Inglish: Older kids in the neighborhood and TV shows. Remembering how cool it was to look for clothes when I was a kid, like Starter coats. I was into Nike, Reebok, bright colors, Tennis jackets…it never went out of style to me.
“When we were doing it we weren’t trying to be trendy; we found it again…to us it never went out of style.”
-Chuck Inglish
Nice Kicks: What’s the next trend you see coming?
Mikey Rocks: Bringing back old high end sh*t. Polo Bear sweaters, Iceberg, Saks 5th classic designs. Then I’m gonna bootleg sh*t! [Laughs.] If I see a logo I like that’s ill I’m gonna screenprint it and throw it on a crewneck. I’m gonna do it before anybody else does it.
Look out for The Cool Kids’ debut album When Fish Ride Bicycles dropping March 4th as well as Mikey Rocks’ solo debut?Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe this April.
