Noah Beresin and Chidera Anamege are pretty normal kids. Except for the fact the hip-hop duo, better known as Chiddy Bang, has a record deal with British label EMI.

Chiddy Bang played to a sold-out show at Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom last night, following a set of mash-ups by The White Panda, an up-and-coming group.

The end of October will mark an eventful year for Chiddy Bang. It released its first mixtape through the blog Pretty Much Amazing at about this time last year — a move that soon catapulted it from a relative unknown to a key part of many college party playlists.

Fittingly, Chiddy Bang’s members are the same age as many who attended yesterday night’s show; Beresin (also known as Xaphoon Jones) and Anamege (Chiddy) are both 20 years old.

During yesterday night’s performance, Chiddy Bang’s tender age showed as Anamege moved frenetically across the stage. Beresin invited members of the crowd to pick topics for Anamege to freestyle about, leading to students shouting out suggestions such as “College Park,” “pandas” and “Yom Kippur.”

Engaged and hands raised, audience members cheered as Anamege smoothly rhymed his way through the suggestions.

It all began when the twosome met at Drexel University.

Beresin and Anamege made music together, played shows and eventually started talking to labels. Then, they dropped out of school. Today, they are touring all over the place.

“We have rap and we have hip-hop and electronic and afrobeat and pop and soul and club music and all kinds of different stuff going on,” Beresin said.

In short, Beresin makes the beats and Chiddy does the rapping.

Beresin takes samples that run the gamut from Sufjan Steven’s “Chicago” to Cee Lo Green’s surprise summer hit, “F**k You”. Chiddy Bang signing to label United Kingdom label Parlophone, which is a sub-label of EMI Records, resulted in a mixtape, Air Swell, catered to European fans.

Chiddy Bang’s mixtapes are a significant part of its success. The group churns them out almost at the speed of Lil’ Wayne. Despite having two records in the works, The Preview in October and The Swelly Life sometime in 2011, Chiddy Bang is working on a mixtape due out in the winter called Peanut Butter N’ Swelly.

Downloadable mixtapes, the band’s bread and butter, contributed largely to the duo’s rise to fame, Beresin said.

“We’re kind of like birthed from the womb of Mother Internet,” he said. “Patterns of music and the way we listen to music is determined by word of mouth, and the two biggest weapons for this [are] the Internet and blogs and everything like that and also places where lots of young people are all put together in one place, like colleges.”

Although some may call into question the originality of its music, many find the songs very catchy. In a blogosphere filled with artists who make music of other music — such as Girl Talk, Hoodie Allen and The White Panda — Chiddy Bang brings a different element with its remixes topped with Chiddy’s raps.

The White Panda, despite arriving only a half-hour before the show due to a plane delay, gave the crowd something to dance to before the headlining act took the stage. With mash-ups that included a track incorporating Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” into Outkast’s “Rosa Parks,” students seemed to enjoy the opening act.

For Tess Holland, a sophomore art and English major, the entire show was a great time.

“I thought it was amazing,” Holland said. “It was so fun; the crowd was so hyped. Everyone was really excited, and they played a lot of good songs.”

Chiddy Bang ended its performance with the song that may have introduced much of the audience to the group: “Opposite of Adults”, a takeoff on MGMT’s hit single “Kids.”

Despite their success, the members know they still have a ways to go.

“We’re still trying to figure ourselves out, I guess, we were kind of making music too fast to really think about it, you know what I mean?” said Beresin.

But, they’ve got plenty of time. After all, they are just kids.

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