Chidera Anamege also known as Chiddy Bang makes up this musical endeavor, forming as a group in 2009, Chiddy Bang now contains one individual with a steady hold on Hip Hop.
Originally Chiddy Bang consisted of another member; Noah Beresin also knows as Xaphoon Jones but he departed in 2013 so that he could focus his attention on producing.
Chiddy Bang began gaining attention after they received mass publicity on social media websites such as MySpace when their songs were featured on the popular music blog Pretty Much Amazing. This gained them a growing fan base of college kids and even led to them having a packed out show in Swarthmore College in April 2009.
In 2009 Chiddy Bang released their first ever mixtape titled "The Swelly Express" this hip hop music was well received by their fan base and contained 18 songs including skits. The song "Opposite Of Adults" contains a sample from "Kids" a song by MGMT. This song was incredibly successful and even managed to land itself a place on the charts; entering the top 10 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Songs and the top 20 within the UK official Singles chart.
In 2011 after the success of their song "Opposite of Adults" Parlophone/EMI gathered an interest in the duo and this resulted in them signing them with plans to release a full length album.
Chiddy Bang have worked alongside many artists including Tinie Tempah; in which they opened for the artist on his "Disc-overy tour".
After releasing their debut album "Breakfast" Chidera has announced that he would be working on the mixtape for Chiddy Bang titled "Baggage Claim".
Chidera currently holds the Guinness World Record for the Longest Freestyle Rap and the Longest Marathon Rapping record as he has rapped for 9 hours 15 minutes and 15 seconds.
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