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Kidz in the Hall’s Double-O Talks About New Album and His Favorite Light-Skinned Artists
Sprawled
out on a dingy white couch on a backstage patio at Rock the Bells,
Michael “Double-O” Aguilar seems to be enjoying obscurity under a
fedora and mop-top haircut. The production whiz and half of the alt-rap
duo Kidz in the Hall, Double-O, had finally made his way to Chicago to
link up with partner, Naledge, to put the finishing touches on their
forthcoming album, Land of Make Believe. Ro sat down with Double-O to talk about his favorite light-skinned artists and the new Kidz album. –gavin philip godfrey
I ran into Naledge a while back and he was clowning your hair. No barber handy?
Good hair don’t care! My hair is product of what happens when you’re on
the road and you in the top bunk. I trick people — they say, ‘Oh, he’s
got the smooth hair, it must be easy, he can just go to some regular
white folks and they just cut him up real nice,’ — that doesn’t happen
because I’m mixed. Everybody else started growing their hair out,
trying to bite — I see you Lupe, Jay-Z, Wale — all y’all biting me. I
was growing hair before y’all!
Is Drake bringing light-skinned artists back in style?
It was about to be the Al B. Sure era again, then Chris Brown [stepped]
up for us a little bit. Drake came out and was just like, ‘I got it. It
fell, but I’m going to take it back up.’ It’s funny, because [Drake],
might be the best Jewish rapper too.
You joked that you’re first album was ‘backpack,’ the second album was ‘hipster-hop.’ What does Land of Make Believe sound like?
… Like, there’s always been a synergy between the stuff that I do on
the production tip, because I’m always experimenting, trying to do
different things and push Naledge that way.
