New Artist

The young hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang sprinted onto the scene early this year with a fresh fusion of sounds, grabbing samples from interesting places: Radiohead, Passion Pit, Sufjan Stevens, and MGMT.  Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege and Xaphoon Jones are just 19 years old, but their youth isn’t wasted on them. Their unique sound, rhymes, and energy can go head to head with any alternative hip-hop group out there.  The Swelly Express Mixtape included the breakthrough hit “Opposite of Adults (Kids)” which tops the pile of MGMT-sampling songs out there. If you haven’t heard it, crank the volume and take a listen:

Chiddy Bang – Opposite of Adults (Kids)

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But things aren’t all wonderful in the swelly world.  If you’re like us, you’ve been wondering about their official debut album initially promised by the end of August.  Sadly, Chiddy Bang has just announced that they will not release The Swelly Life until early 2011.  But dry some of those tears.  They will be releasing The Preview next month which will include tracks old and new, with Pharell Williams, Q-Tip, and Darwin Deez jumping into the mix.  Drop date Oct 11 (UK) and Oct 12 (USA) on EMI Music.  But don’t take our word for it, read their email statement below.

"It has been an UNBELIEVABLE year so far for us and it's also been super crazy and hectic (in a good way). You probably know we've been pushing to get our debut album "The Swelly Life" out for the end of summer, but the past 7 months have been an non-stop wave of flights, tours, interviews, videos, radio, photoshoots so we haven't had all the time we would have liked to actually get in the studio and make music. Its not really a bad thing because we're having a great time going new places meeting new people who like our music, but it's just how things have unfolded so far.

SO - rather than just throw something together and try to pass it off as our debut album, we are going to put out a smaller release called "The Preview" on Oct 11 i[n] the UK and Oct 12 in the USA with some brand new songs while we take the time to really finish the thought we have for The Swelly Life LP.

Even though its not the actual album, we wanna put some new music out there for the fans that have been riding with us for a while, while we take a few extra months to make the best album we can for you. We'll get the FULL album out early in the new year and are already planning a crazy world tour for it.

we really appreciate your support and without you all we wouldn't be here.

Stay Swelly


Chiddy & Xaph"