Will Cool Kids Release Their Full-length Before Hell Freezes Over?
By Jon Graef in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 24, 2011 7:40PM
When they released their debut EP The Bake Sale in 2008, trunk-rattling retro-rap duo The Cool Kids made an immediate splash. The lyrical content, with its talk of pagers, gold, and black mags, threw back to hip-hop's golden age, while the beats had enough bomb-ass bass to knock the gold teeth outta ya.
Soon thereafter, a full-length, titled When Fish Ride Bicycles, was promised. Because of label difficulties, though, The Cool Kids could not deliver, instead releasing two follow-up mixtapes: 2009's Gone Fishing and last year's Tacklebox. (Hell, if this pattern kept going, they might have stumbled upon Trout Mask Replica as a title entirely by accident).
Now that we're close to entering the third month of 2011, Bicycles, the Chinese Democracy of hipster rap, has a release date and a label. According to a news release, the fine folks at Mountain Dew will release Fish on their Green Label Sound label in Spring 2011.
While you spit out the corn syrup-derived beverage out of your mouth in disbelief, check out a new Cool Kids track, "Bundle Up," which you can download or stream below.
For an in-depth look at the relationship between The Cool Kids and Green Label Sound, the folks hosting this new track, check out Miles Raymer's article from a couple of years back.