Five years ago yesterday (July 12, 2011), The Cool Kids released When Fish Ride Bicycles. After a separation spanning nearly the half-decade since, the Chicago, Illinois duo announced it has reunited. Today (July 13), producer/MC Chuck Inglish and rhyme partner Sir Michael Rocks confirmed their reunion on social media.

Since the Top 100 album (released on Mountain Dew’s Green Label), Chuck released three solo albums, as Mikey released 2014’s Banco. In that time, Rocks also briefly signed with Curren$y’s Jet Life imprint. Both MCs worked with a host of contemporaries, including Mac Miller, Freddie Gibbs, and Rapsody.

The Cool Kids Are Back Together, And Return In Style With Two New Songs (Audio)

Founded in the mid-2000s, The Cool Kids would initially sign with A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold Records (Danny Brown, Run The Jewels, Kid Cudi) at the start of the label. Releasing single “88” b/w “I Rock,” the retro-themed Windy City outfit would later EP, The Bake Sale on XL Records (Adele, M*I*A, Tyler, The Creator) in 2008.

In early 2014, The Cool Kids released two songs at random. However, in April of ’15, Mikey told an interviewer that the ’00s group was “never coming back.”

On Twitter, both halves of the group expressed their excitement. Chuck alluded to madness surrounding the national events in July inspiring him to call his partner.

IM READY https://t.co/nAijaNZS9v

— Banco Populair (@SirMichaelRocks) July 13, 2016

I called Mikey and realized nothing would feel better than us being the originators again.

The Cool Kids are back forreal.

— CHUCK INGLISH 20/3 (@Chuckisdope) July 13, 2016

The Hiatus is over. We missed being us.

We refuse to let people down and not be the actual group. We been through too much.

— CHUCK INGLISH 20/3 (@Chuckisdope) July 13, 2016

So prepare for things to go back to they were suppsosed to be.

The Cool Kids together is what is right in the world. It’s on. P

— CHUCK INGLISH 20/3 (@Chuckisdope) July 13, 2016

I can’t say I’ve felt more complete as an artist than to be back with my brother to give the world what we started.

— CHUCK INGLISH 20/3 (@Chuckisdope) July 13, 2016

We really felt like we hadn’t really finished what we started.

They took our styles and ran off.

We coming back for it all.

— CHUCK INGLISH 20/3 (@Chuckisdope) July 13, 2016

Rapsody – Round Table Discussion ft Mac Miller & The Cool Kids (Audio)

Both artists have solo projects before resuming the official Cool Kids catalog.