Antoine "Sir Michael Rocks" Reed was born in 1987 in the Chicago suburb of Matteson, Illinois, where he was raised.
17 Facts About Sir Michael Rocks
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Sir Michael Rocks began producing under the moniker Sir Michael Rocks, going by Mikey Rocks.
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In mid-2005 Sir Michael Rocks was mostly working on music production, and doing some rapping as well.
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Sir Michael Rocks soon founded the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, when Rocks was still sixteen.
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Sir Michael Rocks met co-founder Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll on Myspace in 2005, after Rocks found a beat that Ingersoll had produced.
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Around 2011 Sir Michael Rocks co-founded The Toothpick Clique with his friends Tris J and Shorty K, collaborators from his teenage years.
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On March 14,2011, Sir Michael Rocks released his debut solo album, the Rocks Report mixtape, which featured twenty five original songs and skits.
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The album features sixteen tracks with Sir Michael Rocks doing most of the writing on all.
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Sir Michael Rocks released a collection of sweatshirts and T-shirts with the release of the Premier Politics, promoting various independent designers.
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On October 23,2011, it was announced that Sir Michael Rocks joined forces with the independent label Jet Life Recordings, a Warner Bros.
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Sir Michael Rocks appeared as a featured artist on a number of the albums released by the label.
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Sir Michael Rocks toured in the fall of 2012 with Mac Miller, and for the second part of the year toured with Pac Div.
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Sir Michael Rocks released an 8-track follow-up mixtape, Lap of Lux 1.5, in December 2012, with producer Harry Fraud contributing.
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Sir Michael Rocks performed at SXSW 2013 in Austin, having performed at the festival annually since 2007.
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Sir Michael Rocks continues to be active as a guest artist, and he has contributed to tracks by artists such as Dom Kennedy, Ski Beatz, Sean O'Connell, Curren$y, Rapsody, Dizzy Wright, Freddie Gibbs, and The World's Freshest.
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Sir Michael Rocks has referenced local Chicago rappers as influences on his sound.
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In 2022 Sir Michael Rocks announced the official relaunch of his fashion line Marriani.