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Cousin of renowned rapper Ice Cube, Del began his career writing lyrics for Cube's backing band, Da Lench Mob.The album was a commercial success, largely due to the popularity of the hit single, "Mistadobalina".Ice Cube for his next album, No Need for Alarm.Souls of Michief, Casual, Domino, and Pep Love.Rather than the use of multiple funk samples, including those of Pfunk, No Need for Alarm features a bold, classic hip hop sound, often referred to as an updated Oakland version of Boom Bap, which is a certain archetypal hip hop sound, and because Del and his crew represents Oakland.The album No Need for Alarm is still considered one of the greatest albums ever to come out of Del, Heiroglyphics, or Oakland, and is highly regarded as one of the all time classic albums of hip hop.The instrumental pressings of this record is considered the "holy grail" of hiphop instrumental albums, due to the quality of production on the album and also due to its extremely limited pressing.Due to touring, mundane activities, and frequent psychedelic drug use, it would be another five years before the release of his third album.Del also released another collaborative work with the Hieroglyphics crew in 1998, 3rd Eye Vision, it was the Hieroglyphics crew's first album.The 3030 project was marketing genius because the CD capitalized on the growing interest of computer technology, incorporating motifs of science fiction, telling stories about life and hip hop based in the year 3030, infusing much of the popular internet terminology and culture in circulation at the time.Del later commented in an interview on the success of "Clint Eastwood" by saying to the interviewer that he actually wrote the song with the book "How to Write a Hit Song," a book that he bought with a coupon his mother gave him.This article or section may contain poor or irrelevant examples.Articles should only contain pertinent examples.You can edit the article to add more encyclopaedic text.See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for further suggestions.In 2000, the song "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in the game Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX.In 2001, the song "If You Must" was featured in the game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.In 2003, the song "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in the game Tony Hawk's Underground.In 2006, the song "Catch A Bad One" was used in the game Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.Hieroglyphics song "Don't Hate the Player" was also featured in NBA 2K7.According to an interview with Del on the latest edition of the Hierocast, Hiero's official podcast, progress has been made on 11th Hour and the beats and the cuts for the sequel to Deltron 3030 are complete.He also did an Interview on The Breakdown a show on ItsHipHop.Current status on Del's new albums is that 11th Hour will be released first, with the new Deltron album, Deltron Event II being released afterwards.Both albums are expected to be released in 2008.Del's signing recently in a cryptic myspace blog post.On November 6, 2007 there was a post on the Definitive Jux website that stated Del had signed with Definitive Jux.Del's impact on the music world did not end with his solo work of even the albums his label released.At the beginning of the new millennium Del branched out and through his work with Dan the Automator on the Deltron 3030 record and later with the Gorillaz multi platinum first album (and on which he voiced the hit single, "Clint Eastwood"), Del continued to push the boundaries of the art of MCing and proving that talent and versatility could make rap relevant outside the traditional boundaries of genre.Del tha Funkee Homosapien.External links
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Short biography of Del
ItsHipHop.This page was last modified 09:07, 4 February 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Bootsy's Rubber Band is a very close second.Sounds LikeMy sound is Del's own sound, but I got a wide range of influences!Bay is known for typically, although it's related.Hiero went on the road and toured incessantly in support of the album for much of 1998.Finally ready to unleash a new record on the world, Del comes with BOTH SIDES OF THE BRAIN.Seventeen tracks of pure Del.HORT GOODFELLAS ALBUM IN STORES APRIL 1.Just heard workin it and foot down for the first time, and i've got to say that i can't wait for the 11th hour!Any chance you're coming to Colorado Springs with the rest of Hiero on the 22nd and if not any time soon?Why you wanna get funky with me?!Very anxious to be blessed by Deltron II and The 11th Hour!The Funkyhomosapien, can't wait for the Def Jux drop.Del, I made a new beat this morning, jsut fuckin round.Oregon Green is duh scene if ya know what I mean.Yo, you need to come throught Chicago!We are dying for a show!Show Chi town some love!TRA35________here's a virtual hook.Keep doin' you, fam, it's dope.Greetingz from Potsdam City!Rollin with the Caravan..."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Never underestimate the Funky Homosapien's impact on hip hop,
especially Northern California hip hop.Before his first album, the majority of Bay Area hip hop mimicked the style of the legendary Too Short and various other gangstas and thugs.Subject matter generally concerned such enlightened topics as pimps and hos, bammer weed, and shooting and killing.Del still records prolifically, as he has for the past ten years.Pepsi Smash
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Who's Next?Cousin of renowned gangster rapper Ice Cube, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (real name Teren Delvon Jones) was born in Oakland, CA, on August 12, 1972, and got his start with Ice Cube's backing band, da Lench Mob.Biography: Cousin of renowned gangster rapper Ice Cube, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (real name Teren Delvon Jones) was born in Oakland, ...Want More Del tha Funkee Homosapien?SiteCatalyst code version: H.Plugin: Days since last Visit 1.You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on
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1,062,602 plays scrobbled on Last.Del was born Teren Delvon Jones, August 12, 1972, in Oakland, California.Da Lench Mob and made his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here, with support from his cousin in 1991.In 1996, Del was ready to release his Future Development album.Because of the problems with Elektra, Future Development was available only on cassette via the Hieroglyphics website for a time, until its eventual widespread release on CD in 2002, six years after its proposed release date.Add this track to your playlist
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Why You Wanna Get Funky...Cousin of renowned gangster rapper Ice Cube, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (real name Teren Delvon Jones) was born in Oakland, CA, on August 12, 1972, and got his start with Ice Cube's backing band, da Lench Mob.Cousin of renowned gangster rapper Ice Cube, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (real name Teren Delvon Jones) was born in Oakland, CA, on August 12, 1972, and got his start with Ice Cube's backing band, da Lench Mob.Asylum, Del's debut release, I Wish My Brother George Was Here, was issued in 1991 and produced by Cube and like most rap at the time, featured numerous samples of Parliament Funkadelic classics from the '70s.Funk sounds were dropped in favor of a more sophisticated, almost jazzy sound.Create a configuration object and add the keywords to the conf.When he performs at the Middle East Downstairs on October 20, alongside Houston's Devin the Dude, Del will return as an older, wiser funkee homosapien.It's cool for a while but then that person is going to overstay their welcome.It was genius, but a little weird.He continued to produce steadily through the '90s, releasing albums No Need for Alarm and Both Sides of the Brain while building a cult following with his extended Hieroglyphics family.If you're tight, you'll be tight.It's got to be more and better stuff than the next dude because music now is so disposable.I'm not waiting anymore. |
