The Cool Kids Open Up Their “Tacklebox” (Mixtape Listen & Download)

As we promised yesterday, retro hip-hop rockers The Cool Kids dropped their new mixtape 'Tacklebox" last night and I have to say, it's fresher than a Ziploc. True to form, producer Chuck Inglish has compiled a top-to-bottom collection of stripped down, bass and snare heavy beats while Mikey Rocks jumps on the mic alongside Chuck to deliver (mostly) dope verses. There's "mixtape of the year" talk in the air, which if of course crazy talk (did we already forget "F**k a Mixtape"?), but I'm already ready to call this one of the best of the tear.

And this is technically a "prelude" to their long-awaited debut album "When Fish Ride Bicycles", but that's kind of like saying that "The Chronic" was a prelude to "Detox". Think it over, that simile's deeper than you might realize at first (pats self on back).

Download links and mixtape preview are underneath the tracklist:

1. Fishing Lessons (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
2. Flying Kytes (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
3. Freak City (Produced by Chuck Inglish & Old Young)
4. Neat ft. Tennille
5. Going Camping (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
6. Volume II (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
7. Birthdays (Produced by Ski Beatz)
8. Great Outdoors (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
9. Strawberry Girl (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
10. Systems (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
11. Good Afternoon (Produced by The Productionix)
12. Parking Lot (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
13. Summer Nights ft. Tennille (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
14. Los Angeles Leakers Outro (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
15. Gettin' Flick (Produced by Chuck Inglish)
16. Volume II (Remix) ft. Like of Pac Div (Produced by Chuck Inglish)

Download "Tacklebox" via MediaFire

See what's inside The Cool Kids' tacklebox right now and check out two of the mixtape's top tracks, "So Neat" and "Flying Kites"