When Fish Ride Bicycles
When Fish Ride Bicycles is the second major record and debut studio album of the American hip hop duo The Cool Kids, released on July 12, 2011 by Green Label Sound Records. The album features the collaborations production, from Chuck Inglish (one half of the duo), The Neptunes, and Travis Barker, along with appearances from Bun B, Ghostface Killah, Travis Barker, and Asher Roth. This is the first studio recording of the group after the mixtape Tacklebox, in the beginning of 2010. The song Swimsuits is used on a Mountain Dew Commercial.
Development
When Fish Ride Bicycles was announced to be 92% complete on February 16, 2009 by Chuck Inglish on their blog. Numerous delays kept pushing the album back and a majority of the original material was released on the Gone Fishing and Tackclebox mixtapes.
Reception
When Fish Ride Bicycles received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews." The album title was a trending topic on Twitter.
Podcasts:
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by Cool Kids
When Fish Ride Bicycles
by: Cool Kidswho told you that you can sit with the
computer weird niggers still can't figure it out, though!
got in door, got out door, we clean the clothes, clean
inside .with the stereo!
i dug holes trying to grow my seats,
i dug like the back of a scream, man!
you got designs on the back of your jeans,
they steam and i'm cold as a
come and fresh out the freezer, i'm
the only third grader in the school would beat me.
you took it from me, is funny as
sleepers can't sleep if it's money in the mattress,
a lot of niggers still sunning from their taxes and bills.
we will recognize each other, man! damn!
go ahead, i got it harder than the
chorus:
bundle up, bundle up,
you gotta bundle up!
bundle up, bundle up,
i said you gotta bundle up!
you said it's gonna be cold today,
from the city and the frozen lakes!
bundle up, bundle up,
you gotta bundle up!
they said you gotta bundle up!
you said it's gonna be cold today,
from the city and the frozen lakes!
this glass is half full of
brand new audition nigger, i can't twice!
dose, my dose don't look right!
i came that you know
and i'm not just saying
who can fit what we're carrying in here, we won't!
now let me pose for this photo!
is me standing out in the snow with my condom right!
would that sound appropriate, means i'm getting hot,
and now giving how cold is been
that we're the hottest that you've seen in the minute come,
and we ain't going green like global warming!
but i do get that organic license on me!
blowing on california
full shoppersis calling,
lady. honey with the spoiler, away game white, baby blue
my.. is michigan and metro detroit,
chicago where i guess it's a little colder.
chorus:
bundle up, bundle up,
you gotta bundle up!
bundle up, bundle up,
i said you gotta bundle up!
you said it's gonna be cold today,
from the city and the frozen lakes!
bundle up, bundle up,
you gotta bundle up!
they said you gotta bundle up!
you said it's gonna be cold today,
from the city and the frozen lakes!