Cool & Dre are a team of hip hop producers from Miami, Florida, consisting of Marcello "Cool" Valenzano and Andre "Dre" Christopher Lyon. The duo started their own record label, Epidemic Records. They signed a contract with Jive Records in 2003 concerning the distribution of their first artist, Dirtbag.[citation needed] In August 2010, the duo officially partnered with Cash Money Records. In April 2011, the duo signed a deal with Interscope Records through Cash Money (the first time Cash Money is under another Universal label), also to distribute their label Epidemic Records. http://www.twitter.com/coolanddre http://www.coolanddre.com http://www.rateyourdemo.com http://www.dirtyroyalty.com http://www.kroseonline.com http://www.myspace.com/officialcoolanddre