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" It&amp;#039;s difficult to argue that hats will ever, really, make you look great. Nick Sullivan, our fashion director, is slightly wary of hats in general, and while some varieties are having a comeback of sorts \u2014 even Thom Yorke is somehow pulling off the bowler \u2014 the same can&amp;#039;t necessarily be said for their snap-backed, fitted, and strapped brethren. But if anyone wants to change that, it&amp;#039;s The Cool Kids. The Chicago-based hip-hop duo, made up of Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish \u2014 whose new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, comes out this week \u2014 is rarely seen without their baseball hats. Musically and visually, they&amp;#039;re known for leaning heavily on golden-era rap, so their hat choices (like everything else they wear) tend toward the loud and colorful. They also happen to look cool while doing that. So, while we don&amp;#039;t recommend baseball hats to all men, we did sit down with Mikey and Chuck in New York City to find out more about what makes their caps work for them. And what might, should you be so bold, work for you. ESQUIRE: Why do you guys like hats so much? MIKEY ROCKS: [laughs] I like hats because they cover up my hair when I don&amp;#039;t got a haircut. Also, you could add a little bit of extra flavor with them. You might have a favorite team... ESQ: I noticed you guys wear a lot of different teams&amp;#039; hats. Is it because you have a particular allegiance to them? MR: Nah, most of the time it&amp;#039;s more of an allegiance to that color for the day. It&amp;#039;s more of an accent piece. ESQ: You get Yankees fans coming up to you... MR: All the time. People ask you what teams you like, and they start asking you about players on that team, and I&amp;#039;m like, I don&amp;#039;t even know players on this team, man. I just got the hat on. ESQ: You wear any other types of hats? MR: Yeah, a couple different types. I like skull caps for the winter. Then you got snap-backs and hats like this [points to his hat, a yellow Polo] with the leather straps on them, and then you have regular baseball hats like the one [Inglish] has right there... ESQ: What do you think of other hats that are becoming popular again, like the fedora? CHUCK INGLISH: I&amp;#039;ve never been a fedora fan. MR: Yeah, it won&amp;#039;t work with my style per se, you know what I mean? I can&amp;#039;t really wear them. I don&amp;#039;t think I have the right type of head shape to pull it off. ESQ: Is it more about style or head shape? MR: It&amp;#039;s about the style. Because most of the time what I have on might not go with that style of hat, so then it&amp;#039;s like, it&amp;#039;s too much of a clash going on. Like you... Yeah, you could wear a couple different types of hats right now with what you&amp;#039;re wearing [a blue oxford and red chinos]. You could probably do the bowler if you wanted to. You got on boat shoes right now... ESQ: So if someone&amp;#039;s wondering how to wear a baseball hat, what do you say to them? MR: Size. There&amp;#039;s nothing worse than somebody with a hat sagging too far down over their head, and it&amp;#039;s like over your ears too much. ESQ: Where should it go, right above your ear? MR: Yeah, you got a line on your forehead where your hat drops down to, and you don&amp;#039;t wanna cross that, and you don&amp;#039;t wanna go too far above it, either, or else you&amp;#039;re gonna look kinda crazy. ESQ: Kind of an Urkel effect. MR: If you go too far back then it looks like you have a super-big head. If you go too far down then it&amp;#039;s all over your eyes. it. ESQ: Where do you guys get your hats? CI: Lids, if I need it fitted. MR: Yup, Lids is the place for baseball hats like he&amp;#039;s got on. ESQ: They do custom sizing? CI: They can pretty much do anything at Lids. They can stretch it out. You can also go to the New Era flagship store in New York. It&amp;#039;s actually really dope. It&amp;#039;s in Manhattan. The baseball hat for When Fish Ride Bicycles is from New Era. ESQ: Do you have any hat-wearing role models? MR: I used to like Fresh Prince. His hat selection was cool, man. Ole Will Smith, he used to rock his hats pretty good. At right angles. CI: Theophilus London. His hat choices are kinda badass, to the point where I start seeing hats and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Damn, that&amp;#039;s a Theophilus London hat.&amp;quot; If I look at a hat and I think, &amp;quot;Damn, that&amp;#039;s your hat,&amp;quot; you ushered that shit in. There ain&amp;#039;t been no artist dressing like that dude. That dude has that shit on lock. ESQ: Yeah, he has pretty great style in general. I never know where he gets everything. CI: He&amp;#039;s not gonna tell you, neither, you know what I&amp;#039;m saying? That&amp;#039;s dope, too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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