Hostile Reconnaissance

#25 - The Freddy Adu of rap

Those of us of a certain vintage will remember losing hundreds of hours of our lives to Champ Man (now known as Football Manager). One of the best players was a certain American named Freddy Adu. He was seen as a future superstar, but his real life career never got close to the hype. In this episode, we are suggesting our hip-hop 'Freddy Adus'. I'm not going to lie, Sunny might be upsetting some people here.

#24 - Tetsuo & Youth

A continuation of our series looking at the last great hip-hop album, we go in-depth with Lupe Fiasco's fifth studio album, Tetsuo & Youth. It's pretty clear is a concept album, and may not be on many people's lists, but as Sunny explains, there's a lot more to this album than it might seem. Join us on this episode to find out more. Includes message from our sponsors, Zencastr. Use our special link [https://zen.ai/qiDPNanD9fnM1xtY3kxCh0HOaBByiGWqMgiV2Qf1HNU] to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.

#23b - Bringing it back (part 2)

Here's the second of another two part podcast episode. This double episode is about tracks that brought us back, or made us fall in love with hip-hop again, when our passion had waned somewhat. Loads of great and unknown tracks mentioned, featuring artists such as Nas, Riz MC, and the UMCs. We recorded this episode in November 2022 and only just getting round to publishing it now. There's like another 5 or 6 recorded ready to go. We've got day jobs, families and other hobbies (like listening to music) to fit in. Why do we keep talking for so long? Fuck. In a weird twist of fate, we also stumbled upon another podcast, 'Bars, Rhymes and Life [https://open.spotify.com/show/4dYty1gMiaM97hsNmE6g9O?si=258eabac37204249]' who just so happen to steal our format: two guys, one sweary Asian, one white guy called Elliott, talking about hip-hop. Except these bastards are far more polished than us, and release to a proper schedule. At least our title isn't tautological. Hah, so we have that over them. Seriously, check 'em out, they're really good. The bastards.

#23a - Bringing it back (part 1)

Here's the first in another two part podcast episode. This time about tracks that brought us back, or made us fall in love with hip-hop again, when our passion had waned somewhat. Loads of great and unknown tracks mentioned, featuring artists such as Madlib, Nas, Joey Bad4$$, Danger Mouse, and some funky 70s tracks. We recorded this episode in November 2022 and only just getting round to publishing it now. There's like another 5 or 6 recorded ready to go. We've got day jobs, families and other hobbies (like listening to music) to fit in. Why do we keep talking for so long? Fuck. In a weird twist of fate, we also stumbled upon another podcast, 'Bars, Rhymes and Life [https://open.spotify.com/show/4dYty1gMiaM97hsNmE6g9O?si=258eabac37204249]' who just so happen to steal our format: two guys, one sweary Asian, one white guy called Elliott, talking about hip-hop. Except these bastards are far more polished than us, and release to a proper schedule. At least our title isn't tautological. Hah, so we have that over them. Seriously, check 'em out, they're really good. The bastards.

#22b - Numbers (Part 2 - <100)

Here is the concluding part of our numbers episode, where we counted down from a lot to a bit less. This one is from 100 downwards. In this episode, we countdown interesting numbers and associated hip-hop tracks. From Jay-Z's 99 Problems to 1nce Again by Tribe, we use any excuse to dredge up anything vaguely numerically-related. Sunny is definitely better with words than numbers; his counting got a little out of whack! Marcus' audio seems really weird in this episode, so apologies. We are having him replaced with generative AI as we speak, so life should be much better soon. As always, we have an associated Spotify playlist [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/261Vf2BzfuEzRQUfbaPM3u?si=d185f96a06c348e4]. Look out for the next episode where we look at tracks that brought back our love of hip-hop.