"That 'retro' shit is what the press came up with."

The Cool Kids, former underground heroes, are currently enjoying the spoils of people catching on. Though their songs were inspired by a school of hip hop that emerged while they were still in diapers, The Cool Kids deliver more than the literal pick ‘n’ roll helping of classic hip hop wannabes. Instead they serve up concoctions as sophisticated as they are inventive, with the release of their latest EP, The Bake Sale–including the “Delivery Man” single, which is available for download exclusively via Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound. When we sat down with them in New York, we spoke about asking their mothers for money, and the struggles of coming up in the music industry. But naturally, we talked mostly about getting drunk, because isn’t that what all the cool kids are doing these days?