Cool Calm Pete is a Korean American

Korean American

Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...

 rapper

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 and producer

Hip hop production

Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...

 with a sometimes hypnotically slow, lazy-sounding rapping style. Pete was born in Seoul, Korea

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

 and raised in Queens, New York

Queens

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. Pete is one of the three members of the hip-hop group Babbletron. Cool Calm Pete's debut solo album Lost

Lost (Cool Calm Pete album)

Lost is the debut solo album by American hip hop artist Cool Calm Pete, released in the United States on July 12, 2005 on Embedded Records and later released in Europe on Definitive Jux...

was released in the United States on Embedded Music, and released in Europe on Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux is an independent record label based in New York City, United States. It was co-founded in 1999 by Jaime Meline and Amaechi Uzoigwe. The label was initially known simply as Def Jux, but in 2001, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name similarity...

. He has since released a 9 track EP entitled "Loosies," featuring several remixes of his older work. Cool Calm Pete has been profiled in major publications such as Urb, and XXL. Cool Calm Pete is known to be an avid New York Mets

New York Mets

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 fan. He can almost always be seen wearing a New York Mets fitted cap. Cool Calm Pete attended Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

 and received his BFA in fine art.

Discography

Albums

• Lost
  Lost (Cool Calm Pete album)
  Lost is the debut solo album by American hip hop artist Cool Calm Pete, released in the United States on July 12, 2005 on Embedded Records and later released in Europe on Definitive Jux...
  
  (Embedded Music - 2005)

EPs

• Loosies - Remixes and Other Oddities (Definitive Jux - 2007)

Singles

• "Black Friday (Cool Calm Pete song) Black Friday" (Definitive Jux - 2002)
• "Lost the Single" (Embedded Music - 2005)
• "Gitty Up Baby" (Definitive Jux - 2007)
• "Heart (Cool Calm Pete song) Heart" (Definitive Jux - 2009)

Mixtapes

• "The Food Theme." (Theme Magazine - 2009)
• "Over You." (Modern Shark - 2010)
• "The Ups & Downs." (Modern Shark - 2011)

External links

• Embedded Music page
• Definitive Jux - Bio
• Interview with ArtOfRhyme.com
• Over You Mixtape Download