I had grown up on punk, and when I heard that it was mind-blowing.”Ĭhiddy added, “When I was 16 years old, I got a scholarship to boarding school and there was a rap battle for an iPod Shuffle. “I remember putting the Roots’ The Tipping Point on my Walkman and listening to the opening tracks.
“When I was 15 years old, they closed the local Tower Records and turned off all the metal detectors, so my friends and me stole every CD in the rap section,” said Xaphoon. It’s kind of crazy now that they’re trying to put us under the umbrella of ‘frat rap’ when it was really the indie hipster kids who embraced us.” “And I’d put black friends of mine on the guest list and they wouldn’t even let them in. They’d be like, ‘No, fuck you,’” said Xaphoon, who is white, in an interview with The Daily Beast. The progenitor of this subgenre was Asher Roth, whose 2008 ode to beer pong and sorority girls, “I Love College,” got him snapped up by music manager Scooter Braun-best known for shepherding Justin Bieber to pop superstardom-and became an anthem of sorts for privileged frat boys. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in November. 28 release.īecause the duo met while enrolled as freshmen at Drexel University and built up a huge following through college radio, they’ve been (unfairly) folded into the “frat rap” movement, an oft-derided subgenre of rap music about college l-i-v-i-n that graduated from bizarre trend to legitimate phenomenon when 20-year-old prep-schooler cum rapper Mac Miller’s album, Blue Slide Park, made its debut at No. Twenty-one-year-old Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege and Noah “Xaphoon Jones” Beresin’s tunes served as the musical score to countless slam-dunks and slap shots on ESPN’s SportsCenter during February, building up hype for the release of their debut album, Breakfast, which landed in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart following its Feb. If you’re into sports at all, you’ve probably already heard of the gifted rap duo Chiddy Bang.
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