Hey Champ: From the Windy City to LA

Welcome to Younghollywood. com. Hey, what's up guys? It's Tracy Bear and I'm at the Gibson showroom with Haychimp. We're backstage. They just put on an awesome show. Everyone just was rocking out. What's talk about your sound? How would you describe it?

It's a mixture of Electro, Dance music, rock music, a lot of things thrown in the mix. We all started playing when we were, you know, five, what, six. But we lads. Yeah, very we lads.

You guys are from Chicago. How'd you guys get started?

Jonathan and I played in the band when we were little kids. He went to school with Pete. After college, we met back up, Jonathan and I in Chicago. And we were like, man, we need to find a synthesizer player. And he's like, I know this guy Pete.

So you're the unofficial member because you came later. Or how did that happen?

He was still in college. We wanted to pull him out of senior year, but he was like, I have to finish. I have to finish college. He went to Princeton.

Where did Haychimp come from?

Literally my sister came up with it. Like I was trying to come up with a name and she said it. It's kind of like we have this cheeky attitude and it's also no one starts a normal conversation with Haychimp. It's always like, I'm going to let you down right now kid, or or I have something really like cheeky to say. Yeah, the name Haychimp started when I was like 10 years old in fourth grade, I was kind of a fat kid and I couldn't I couldn't

You were the fat kid?

No, I was I wasn't the. I just had a little chub chub on me. I couldn't really I couldn't really do the rope, like the high rope thing. So I but I kicked ass. I was amazing at the sit reach. So that's when my gym teacher was like, Haychimp. I know it was this.

Lupe Fiasco discovered you guys.

It was really weird. Apparently, a friend of ours from our hometown showed Lupe a video of of us playing live because, you know, Jonathan's a really kick ass drummer. Oh, come on. So, basically what happened was he um Lupe basically called. Hey, I'd like to hear some more music and we're like, okay, you want us like write a track for you or something. And then within two weeks, I quit my job. We were on the road with Lupe Fiasco. He was super cool and like he got us to that next level and now here we are pretty much lived all the dreams. So we have to invent new dreams now. Like I want to bust made out of diamonds.

What was the moment you actually realized you guys were blowing up?

We're not playing for Jonathan parents again. So I guess we're good. Our biggest fans probably. It's probably the Lollapalooza thing when it wasn't just our family. We opened up the main stage of Lollapalooza. At first we were a little bit nervous. We're like, oh well, we were just happy to be there regardless. And you know, we see the parents, the friends coming in and then all of a sudden we go backstage and come on there's a few thousand people rocking with us and it was really important because it was a local show. So that was kind of the first big experience we've had in our hometown.

So your song, Hold Dust Girl, that was the song that they were discovered by Lupe Fiasco. I feel like it makes no sense. So how did you come up with those lyrics?

Uh, well, it actually makes a ton of sense. Tracy, thank you very much. Hey, we're Haychimp from Chicago, Illinois. And we are backstage having a party. And we are you're seeing us on Young Hollywood. Peace.