NextThreeDays: Event Display

Mac Miller with special guests The Cool Kids and The Come Up
Venue: Dedmon Center, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time: 8:00 - 11:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
RU Students, Faculty & Staff: $15.00 General Public: $25.00

Description:
R-SPaCE presents Mac Miller with special guests The Cool Kids and The Come Up.

In a blossoming hip-hop hotbed of talent, Malcolm “Mac Miller” McCormick is next up out of Pittsburgh, PA. Mac caught the eyes and ears of Rostrum Records, inking a deal in July 2010. A multitalented musician who can play numerous instruments and a young novice of the freestyle/cipher/battle circuit of his hometown, Mac has been paving his way to superstardom in his blue-collar hometown for years.

Born in 1992, Mac taught himself to play piano, drums, guitar, and bass by the age of 6. Then, after learning to compose songs in a variety of musical genres, he began studying the art of rhyme. Influenced by the styles of artists such as Big L, Lauryn Hill, Outkast, and A Tribe Called Quest, Mac soon developed a reputation for delivering jaw-dropping freestyles in Pittsburgh.

For more information, visit: http://www.macmillerofficial.com/

The Cool Kids are an American hip hop group. Consisting of rappers Antoine "Sir Michael Rocks" Reed (originally from Matteson, Illinois) and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll (originally from Mount Clemens, Michigan), the group is based in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan.

Self-described as "the new black version of the Beastie Boys", Reed and Ingersoll have made appearances in numerous forms of media, as well as in collaborations with other artists such as Asher Roth, The Bloody Beetroots, Drake, Travis Barker, Lil Wayne, Ludacris and Maroon 5.

For more information, visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cool-Kids/9627463422?sk=info

In an era saturated with upstart MCs all vying for the coveted status of “next big thing”, the story of 24-year old North Carolina native J. Cole (born Jermaine Cole) is a refreshing exception to the quick route for fame and success. The first artist signed to Jay-Z’s new Roc Nation label, Cole made himself notable through a scholarly approach to the game – no small feat considering his Magna Cum Laude distinction upon graduating from St. John’s University.

If his sudden christening by JAY-Z shocked the haters, their doubts were quickly refuted when J. Cole dropped his recent mixtape The Warm Up. Soulful and strong, J. Cole’s lyrics touch on everything from his upbringing in North Carolina to the poverty and hopelessness that affect his community. The mixtape encapsulates not just who J. Cole is as a rapper, but who he is as an artist and a person.

For more information, visit: http://www.jcolemusic.com

Tickets go on sale for Radford University students on February 7 and on February 21 for the general public. General public tickets can be purchased online at: http://www.ticketreturn.com

Note: A $1 fee will be assessed for online purchases.

For more information, visit: https://php.radford.edu/~rspace/ or 540-831-5463.