Video: Haitian Usher (picked by Gym Class Heroes)

Travis McCoy talks about how producer Cool of Cool & Dre turned him onto one of his favorite YouTube videos.

While working in a Miami studio with Cool & Dre -- who produced a number of tracks on his band's new album, The Quilt -- Gym Class Heroes frontman stumbled across a YouTube favorite, thanks to a tip from Cool.

Gym Class Heroes: High Rollers

Pop success. Tabloid romance. Blunt-clouded bus rides. From the Las Vegas desert to a Warped Salt Lake City, Matt Diehl charts the raucous rise of emo-rap sensations Gym Class Heroes.
Photographed for SPIN by Ben Watts

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas are in notably short supply during Gym Class Heroes' show in late June at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. "I've had problems with pharmaceuticals for ten years, and I stand in front of you four and a half months sober, and I feel good as fuck!" exclaims frontman Travis McCoy to the roaring crowd.

New Gym Class Heroes Album Out Sept. 9

Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump, Busta Rhymes, and Daryl Hall to guest on GCH's third album to date, entitled The Quilt.
Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy / Photo by Erika Goldring

The blossoming relationship between mouthpiece Travis McCoy and Hall and Oates legend Daryl Hall has come full circle with Gym Class Heroes' The Quilt, the New York-based act's follow up to 2006's As Cruel a

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