Rich Kidz

Rank #8 Mableton, GA Hip Hop / Swavor / Southern Hip Hop

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Members: Skateboard Skooly and RKaelub

Sounds Like: Drake, Lil Wayne, OutKast Official, CeeLo Green, Future

Label: Rich Kidz Music Group

Manager: RK4L Booking and Management

Bio: It’s been said that the greatest Rap movements start out small, but for Atlanta’s own Rich Kidz, a strong hustle has produced big results. Bred from the same Bankhead streets as T.I., the duo comprised of RK Kaelub and Skateboard Skooly started their movement four years ago in the halls of Freder... See Full Bio

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Added a new video: "Take You Off" http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/194317636 #video

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“Scores of rappers earnestly sing hooks, but it’s hard to remember the last time that anyone really went for it as much as Rich Kidz do on “My Life,” the standout from their new mixtape Everybody Eat Bread. Backed by an appropriately triumphant beat from producer London On Da Track. the duo seem overwhelmed by their own existences, as if there’s nothing in the world that could ever be better than, say, having a bisexual girlfriend. It is grandiose and sung to within an inch of its life, but Rich Kidz (with the help of Flocka) pull it off with aplomb. It's the kind of life-affirming chorus that label executives pay millions of dollars trying to find, nestled here into an underground mixtape by a few unsigned teens.”

— Jordan Sargent, Pitchfork.com

“This is that adrenaline shot straight into your eyeball. To set the scene: "My Life" is where filet mignon is served nightly and exclusively. It's where you have sex with a married woman in front of her boss, simply because you can. Headlight-sized Breitling watches are plentiful in "My Life", and earning upwards of $230,000 an hour is commonplace. It's where drugs take you "higher than Bugatti insurance"-- pretty darn high. If "My Life" was really my life-- or your life, or Rich Kidz's lives-- I would be either dead of a heart attack at age 24, arrested for indecent exposure, murdered by a jealous husband, and/or Charlie Sheen. Nobody wants to be Charlie Sheen, but everybody wants "My Life", because this young Atlanta hip-hop duo make it sound like what god thinks about when he thinks about heaven. They are amped. Really amped. Like winning the Super Bowl and the Oscars and Powerball at the same damn time amped. And then there's Waka. Jesus. In the song's ecstatic in-studio video, we”

— Ryan Dombal, Pitchfork.com

“Thanks to the success of last year's addictive "My Life"-- partial shouts-out to the year-long major label spendathon that consumed 2012-- Atlanta youngsters Rich Kidz were promptly snapped up by Columbia Records. And, as is clear from their new single "Ratchet," it's theirs, they spend it, to the tune of features from Chicago drill sergeant Chief Keef and fellow Atlantan time-bender Future. "We're different," says Skooly, half of Rich Kidz, in a press release. "We like going overboard." The hook is proof-- "I ain't matching, top to bottom/ Got on four different designers." "Ratchet" aims for the club and doubles-up Future's most famous boast at the same damn time.”

— Corban Goble, pitchfork.com

“Rappers are measured as much by their business acumen as their musical talent-- to paraphrase Jay-Z, their ability to be not just businessmen but businesses, man. In some cases the work of rapping comes secondary to the work of selling the rapper. I'll never forget Ghostface's mercenary stage banter at 2008's Pitchfork Music Festival: "Chicago's one of our biggest markets!" Atlanta's Rich Kidz, who make a flamboyant hybrid of R&B and goon-rap, are so steeped in the art of business that they're half-removed from the business of art. "I got no purpose," Skool Boi raps on Straight Like That 3's "Kool on the Low." "I go rock out these shows/ And fuck these hoes for good promotion." Whether or not he's "good" at sex or even enjoys it is somehow irrelevant. In Rich Kidz' world, sex is networking and horizontal integration isn't just a management strategy but a double entendre. ”

— Mike Powell, pitchfork.com

“In theory, this Rich Kidz and SD collaboration is a lot like Chief Keef’s out-of-nowhere duet with Atlanta’s beach bum-posturing Lil G, “Tatted Like Amigo.” “Grammy” though, is considerably more menacing, the oft-overlooked SD from Keef’s GBE camp using the opportunity to reintroduce himself alongside the continually rising Rich Kidz. Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2013/02/26/video-rich-kidz-f-sd-grammy/#ixzz2NpikSGuA”

— FELIPE DELERME, TheFader.com

“Future lends a verse and crackling woooop! adlibs to “Back It Up,” taken from Rich Kidz’ Straight Like That 3 mixtape, to be released this Friday. Atlanta duo FKi handles production, pairing slow-winding chord progressions with fidgety buzz. Stream below, along with “Kool on the Low,” another track from that tape that’s atypically grim for the cheerful duo, but similarly promising. Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2012/11/12/stream-rich-kidz-f-future-back-it-up/#ixzz2NpiO4JH1”

— NAOMI ZEICHNER, TheFader.com

“The Rich Kidz have filed their second tape of the year, Straight LIke That 3. They sound a little older, opting less for giddily optimistic fare like February’s “My Life” and sounding their best on sex anthems like “Most Tonight” and “Ms. Do It All.” In the midst of all the celebration of freaky girls, they wisely acknowledge the importance of their female fans, pointing out their role as most-valuable promoters on “Kool On The Low” and slow strip club jam “Back It Up.” Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2012/11/20/download-rich-kidz-straight-like-that-3-mixtape/#ixzz2NpiCkdAQ”

— NAOMI ZEICHNER, TheFader.com

“Rich Kidz - Young Atlanta-based singer/rappers who scan like a more swagged-out iteration of B2K or Another Bad Creation. They've been gathering steam, tape to tape, for the past few years, peaking with last month's Everybody Eat Bread, on which their brand of lithe, sing-songy chest-beating feels like it reached its cheery summit.”

— SPIN Magazine

“Rich Kidz mixtape #Straightlikethat2 was one of the best (and most slept on) of last year —just ask the NY Times. Now the Atlanta duo is back with another tape of triumphant rap, Everybody Eat Bread. They are at their best when they’re at their most jubilant, and those peaks are hit on many of the tracks, notably “My Life” with Waka Flocka, “Koo Koo,” with the late Slim Dunkin, and “Never Did.””

— MATTHEW SCHNIPPER, The FADER

“Scores of rappers earnestly sing hooks, but it’s hard to remember the last time that anyone really went for it as much as Rich Kidz do on “My Life,” the standout from their new mixtape Everybody Eat Bread... It's the kind of life-affirming chorus that label executives pay millions of dollars trying to find, nestled here into an underground mixtape by a few unsigned teens.”

— Jordan Sargent, Pitchfork Magazine

“The Rich Kidz are a young rap group from Atlanta known for sing-songy tracks like 2009’s “Partna Dem” and a few merry mixtapes. The artist Andrew Kuo charts their latest, “Straight Like That 2.””

— ANDREW KUO, The New York Times

“The opposition to allow artist without a major record label to gain radio spins and video play is no longer a barrier for hip-hop artist such as Rich Kids. The Atlanta duo is a steady mainstay on urban radio and has set the internet abuzz.”

— Rahiem, Rasha Entertainment

“Rich Kidz, the Atlanta teens responsible for “Partna Dem,” released a new mixtape late last week. Like that infectious single, much of #StraightLikeThat2 sounds wildly positive, especially opening track “Popping Shit 2.” The beat is a combination of staccato toy piano and strings lifted from the credits of a Pixar film. Further down the tracklist, “Pajama Time” is a killer slow jam.”

— MATTHEW SCHNIPPER, THE FADER

“Rich Kidz came by to bless us with they new mixtape “Straight Like That 2″ on Greg Street Show for Mixtape Mondays. We couldnt do Mixtape Monday yesterday cause of the Hawks Broadcast so its only right we did it tonight with Bankheads own Rich Kidz!”

— Greg Street, V-103 Web Magazine via www.v103.radio.com

“So "swag music" is the latest sub-genus bubbling in the A and some spoiled little Rich Kids are at the forefront. ”

— The Fader

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Club Elegant
Austell, GA, US | 8:00pm
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Kevin M. Thomas
TAKE YOU OFF IS GREAT!
D Young
God Bless You..Stay Focused! Y'all Goin' Makin' It
Stark Naked
This Shit SLAAPS! Got 'My Life' on repeat...it's my new anthem..
Break In Styles
great tracks!catchy hooks with lyrical content and flows to match!!tight production all round!good work!!keep me posted on new material u upload on to here!new tracks on our...
King Scooter
WHATS GOOD FAM!!! I LIKE YALL MUSIC FAM (IMA MAKE IT WORK ) IZ MY SHIT ,STAY IN TOUCH .
Shock Nation
Dope Shit!!!