2009: Formation and breakthrough In late February 2009, the popular music blog Pretty Much Amazing showcased five songs by the duo that were on their Myspace account. Shortly after, the group gained some following in the underground among music blogs and local colleges playing a notably packed show at
Swarthmore College and Middlebury College in April 2009. Pretty Much Amazing continued to occasionally release new songs from the duo and in November 2009 debuted the group's first free mixtape entitled
The Swelly Express. On April 28, 2011 during the first-ever MTV O Music Awards, Anamege broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap and Longest Marathon Rapping Record by freestyling for 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 22 seconds, stealing the throne from rapper M-Eighty, who originally broke the record in 2009 by rapping for 9 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds. Anamege had also beat Canadian rapper D.O. for Longest Marathon Rapping session, the previous record being for 8 hours and 45 minutes. The duo have had appearances in several video games, such as in the sports game
NBA 2K12 with their song "Here We Go" from their EP
The Preview, featuring rapper
Q-Tip of hip hop group
A Tribe Called Quest, as well as in
Madden NFL 12 with their song
"Mind Your Manners" featuring Swedish electropop duo
Icona Pop. Their single "
Opposite of Adults" was included in the racing game
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, in addition to being chosen as the goal song for
Team North America in the
2016 World Cup of Hockey as well. The singles "Happening" and "Shine" were included on the soundtracks to the movies
Sex Tape and
Sisters respectively.
2009–2010: The Swelly Express and Air Swell The Swelly Express was the debut mixtape from the duo. The mixtape quickly gained a music following from its online hit "
Opposite of Adults" (which includes a sample from
MGMT's song "
Kids").
The Swelly Express tells the story of the duo's rise in the music business and their experiences with record labels, it was first released and promoted through the music blog Pretty Much Amazing. The mixtape was praised by fans for the production style, including samples from
Passion Pit ("Truth"),
Tinie Tempah and
Pogo ("Expialidocious"). It also contains a guest appearance from
Black Thought of
The Roots. The songs "Opposite of Adults", "Truth", "Fresh Like Us", "All Things Go" (including a sample from Sufjan Steven's "Chicago"), and "Dream Chasin'" have been re-released for download via the
iTunes Store since the release of the mixtape. According to president Miles Leonard, they had been listening to the song "Opposite of Adults" in the office all summer when A&R manager Ollie Slaney said: "As we keep on listening to this maybe we should do something with it." featuring
Donnis and
XV. The duo also opened up for Tinie Tempah on his UK
Disc-Overy tour. Chiddy Bang have toured extensively throughout colleges nationwide and hit numerous festivals such as
Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Bamboozle, Bonnaroo, Wireless Festival, Glastonbury and Electric Forest Festival.
2011–2012: Peanut Butter and Swelly and Breakfast Peanut Butter and Swelly is the third mixtape by the duo. It was released on May 27, 2011 as a prequel to their upcoming debut album
Breakfast. It consists of 15 tracks featuring fellow rappers including
Trae tha Truth,
Casey Veggies and
Mac Miller as well as singer eLDee the Don and electronic music duo
The Knocks. The mixtape contains many references to Anamege's Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap. The duo initially planned a late summer release for their debut studio album
Breakfast in 2011. This was later changed to November 2011 and again to the following year in February 2012 when they opted to release a single from the album,
"Ray Charles", instead. The album was released ahead of schedule on February 22, 2012, at midnight via iTunes and is available in the Google Play Music Store, iTunes, and Walmart. The first single
"Mind Your Manners" premiered on June 29, 2011, and includes samples from Swedish pop band
Icona Pop. The single is also on the soundtrack for the
EA Sports video game
Madden NFL 12. On February 8, Chiddy Bang released a snippet of the song "Breakfast" as a teaser for the album. An "Exclusive
Spotify Freestyle" was released on February 17 with cover art similar to that of the album
Breakfast. A series of "Mind Your Manners" remixes, including one with
Travie McCoy, were released later in 2012 in the form of two EPs (one featuring a previously unreleased song titled "Twisted").
2013–2020: Baggage Claim, Noah Beresin's departure, and Adventure Records On June 18, 2014, it was announced that Beresin would be stepping back as an artist and focus on his producing. Anamege announced that he would be releasing a mixtape in late September called
Baggage Claim, and released the first single, "Breathe", on August 19, 2013. Anamege released a second single on September 12, 2013, titled "HeartBeat" (featuring Two Guyz). On October 9 Anamege announced via Twitter that Baggage Claim would be released October 11, "Dropping baggage claim on Friday!". It was subsequently pushed back to October 16, 2013, and the release date is now September 2014, he announced this via SKEE radio on the show Another Dirty Night Radio, and also via Twitter saying a mixtape would drop late summer. Anamege ended up delaying the track again, and on February 22, 2015, he confirmed on Instagram that the "album"
Baggage Claim will come in the spring of 2015. Also on the same day, Anamege posted on Facebook to say that he was "90 percent done with my album!". He also said that he "even managed to put together a few surprises". However, to this day,
Baggage Claim remains unreleased. In 2015, Anamege either created his own record label, or was signed to one, by the name of 'ADVENTURE RECORDS' in Pennsylvania which was filed at the chamber of commerce as a Domestic Limited-Liability Company on July 21, 2015. This label has been credited as both the copyright and phonographic rights holder for all of Chiddy Bang's releases since then. However, Chiddy Bang did not release any music in the years 2013-2016 until returning with a trio of singles in 2017: "Been a While", "Same Old Thing" (produced by Russ), and "Came a Long Way" (featuring BeWill). Another trio of singles was released in 2018: "Does it Hurt?", "TLC", and "Ride", but the artist again ceased to release music in either 2019 or 2020.
2021–present: Singles, Lunch, Keep the Change, and Saved by the Swell Two singles titled "Guava" and "Down" came out in 2021, followed by a total of 13 single releases in 2022 leading up to Chiddy Bang's long-awaited sophomore album
Lunch in January 2023, followed two and a half months later by
Keep the Change on April 7, 2023 and
Saved by the Swell in November 2023. Numerous singles were released throughout 2023 along with the trio of albums. Chiddy Bang then started 2024 by adding two more singles to his discography, "Need You" in January and "Back and Forth" in March. ==World Freestyle Record==