The legendary Richmond MC Del Tha Funkee Homosapien has come a long way since his first album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here. I didn't rate that album too highly, due to the heavy reliance on George Clinton samples overshadowing Del's lyrics. Del didn't either, and dropped cousin Ice Cube from production work on his second album.
Featured on tracks with Damon Albarn project The Gorillaz (Rock The House and Clint Eastwood) and the Dan The Automator project Handsome Boy Modeling School (Magnetizing, The PJays and The World's Gone Mad with Barrington Levy), Del has made an impact on the music world, even if mainstream listeners don't quite know who he is. To the underground rap fans, he is the man.
Del got better coverage after his fourth album Both Sides of the Brain and his side project with Dan The Automator, called Deltron 3030. The first album Deltron 3030 is amazing, and let Del give a one fingered salute to the conventional rapper. If you buy one album this year, let it be Deltron 3030...
Anyway, to 2008. With Del's first solo album in 8 years, called Eleventh Hour dropping on March 11, 2008 on his new label Definitive Jux. His move to Def Jux from his own label Hiero Imperium is considered a clever move. When talking about his move to Def Jux, Del commented: "I look at this as an opportunity to spread the gospel a little thicker." The second Deltron 3030 album is also dropping sometime in 2008, along with the fourth album with his collective Hieroglyphics. 2008-this is sure to be the year that Del Tha Funkee Homosapien makes it big.
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