Chiddy Bang的艺人档案
by David Jeffries
Philadelphias clever alt-hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang burst on the scene in early 2010 with their MGMT-sampling track The Opposite of Adults. They formed in 2009 as a four-piece electronic-meets-hip-hop group, but by the end of the year they had shrunk to a duo of rapper Chidera Proto Anamege and Xaphoon Jones (aka Noah) on production. After building their rep on the Internet by posting tracks like the Tom Waits-sampling Ice Cream Man, the band released its The Swelly Express mixtape in October of 2009. Protos witty rhymes plus the sampling of indie heroes like Radiohead and Belle & Sebastian became popular talking points, but it was their looping of the MGMT track Kids that brought them the most attention, and a massive U.K. hit when The Opposite of Adults was released as a single in February 2010. That same month, the Gorillaz single Stylo, featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, appeared with Chiddy Bang handling the remix.
