Coolzey

Coolzey was borne out of the cornfields of central Iowa and now travels the land. A boy who for some unexplained reason grew up only being able to listen to roughneck east coast hip hop and Weird Al Yankovic began looping tapes and rhyming into boomboxes. After that there was Pavement, the Wu Tang Clan, mushrooms, sex, and America. This is the rezult. Coolzey passed around handmade lo-fi hip hop and rock demos (Akstoopid, ROYGBIV...

Coolzey passed around handmade lo-fi hip hop and rock demos (Akstoopid, ROYGBIV, Coolzey and the Sucker MCs) and until 2007 when he began releasing a series of 3 EPs (He Did, Soixante-Neuf, and Coolzey vs PRZM) that preceded his first official full-length release The Honey which dropped in January of 2010 and toured extensively with the likes of Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Akil the MC of Jurassic 5, and Raashan Ahmad of the Crown City Rockers.

Since then, Coolzey has released two side projects. The first was a 2011 summer-long project entitled Coolzey and the Search for the Hip Hop Hearts which saw 12 hip hop tracks produced by 12 different underground beatsmiths over 12 weeks accompanied by 12 videos which was later made into a DVD, and the recent 2012 4-track return to his lo-fi roots straight to Bandcamp release Live from the Cave @ Dougman. He is currently working on the sequel to The Honey which is scheduled for release in early 2013.