British hip hop duo to reunite nine years after their split in hopes to bring some optimism to 2024 By Laura Parkin For Mailonline Published: 10:02, 16 August 2024 | Updated: 10:34, 16 August 2024 e-mail 7 shares 2 View comments Rizzle Kicks are set to reunite with the duo announcing this week they hope to bring some optimism to 2024. Jordan 'Rizzle' Stephens and Harley 'Sylvester' Alexander-Sule, first shot to fame in 2011 with the release of their debut single followed by a string of high profile festival shows that cemented their place in the UK music scene. The pair went their separate ways after the release of Slurp! in 2016 but have now revealed they will be making a return in a bid to save the year.
Sharing an update to Instagram on Thursday, Jordan and Harley were seen listening to one of their old hits, Down with the Trumpets, before putting a new cassette tape into a boombox. 'We’re back,' they captioned the clip. Rizzle Kicks are set to reunite with the duo announcing this week they hope to bring some optimism to 2024 Jordan 'Rizzle' Stephens and Harley 'Sylvester' Alexander-Sule, first shot to fame in 2011 with the release of their debut single (pictured in 2014) Addressing their reunion on his podcast, The Red Carpet Treatment , Jordan said: ‘I think our music has aged very well and I think that we, this is my guess, we are reminiscent of a time in British history, 2012, which was pretty optimistic.
‘We had the Olympics, pre-Covid, pre-Brexit, pre-Trump, pe.