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“So I overhear a conversation him and his sister are having about music and all that so I jumped in the conversation because I had just moved up here and I didn’t really have anyone to do music with,” D-Win says. “[From there], we just had the chemistry.”
As the rapping-singing alt-rap duo now known as The Rocketeers, the two have built a steady following in the Windy City, writing their own lyrics and doing their own production. With their fusion of rap, rock, R&B and soul, everyone from Fake Shore Drive to MTV has hailed D-Win and Rocket as a promising young act.
With their affinity for fashion, some may find it easy to dismiss the Rocketeers as a possible carbon copy of the Cool Kids, but their music says otherwise. “We don’t sound anything like the Cool Kids — they’ve got their lane and their doing them — we’re doing us,” D-Win says.
Rocket agrees. “If you know what kind of person you are, and you know what you get inspired off of, you will always stay in your own lane,” he says.
Citing everyone from Elton John to OutKast as their musical heroes, it should come as no surprise the Rocketeers latest mixtape, Stylish Shoes and Colored Jeans, plays like an eclectic mix CD of some today’s most popular genres.
“You’re going to get a mixture of everything, “Rocket says. “The mixtape [is] everywhere.”
–gavin philip godfrey
Stay tuned for the exclusive video interview with The Rocketeers.
