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Jonah hill samba red12/28/2023 ![]() In 2006, "Catch a Bad One" was featured in Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure and "At the Helm" featuring Hieroglyphics was featured in Tony Hawk's Project 8. In 2005, the Hieroglyphics song "Soweto" is featured on ESPN NBA 2K5 (the Hieroglyphics crew is unlockable as a bonus team) and Del's song "Burnt" was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. In 2003, "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Tony Hawk's Underground and "The Izm" was featured in Rolling. In 2001, " If You Must" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. ![]() In 2000 the song "Catch All This" from Both Sides of the Brain was featured in the game Street Sk8er 2, "Jaw Gymnastics", featuring Casual, was featured in Knockout Kings, and "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX. In other media ĭel's songs have seen frequent use in various forms of media including video games, film soundtracks, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and snowboarding videos. He described the project as "lyrically ill but fun to listen to, nothing super heavy." Del handled the production on the project as well. He uploaded the record to SoundCloud under the username Zartan Drednaught COBRA. Del released the album Golden Era on April 19, 2011, in a three-disc set including Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) and Automatik Statik.ĭel shared a free LP entitled Iller Than Most on January 2, 2014. Paying certain prices for the album will give certain incentives, including opportunities for personal collaborations with Del. There is no fixed price for the album, allowing listeners to pay whatever they wish for the album. In September of the same year, he released a new album, Automatik Statik, for an unfixed rate with a minimum of $3.ĭel released his next album It Ain't Illegal Yet on August 6, 2010. The album is available at his page on Bandcamp, though he gave away some hard copies on his supporting Funk Man tour. On March 31, 2009, Del's next album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) was made available for free download on the internet. On March 11, 2008, Del released Eleventh Hour through Definitive Jux. Del was not pleased and advised people to not buy the CD, saying it was just Elektra trying to make money off of him due to his newfound fame. The CD only includes songs from his first two albums, along with a handful of B-sides from that era. In 2004, Elektra released The Best of Del tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years without Del's approval. ![]() 2003 saw the release of Full Circle, the second full-length album from the Hieroglyphics crew. He appeared on the singles " Clint Eastwood" and " Rock the House". With Nakamura and Koala, Del was also a guest performer for Gorillaz's eponymous 2001 album. Two years later, Del released his fourth solo album, Both Sides of the Brain, as well as Deltron 3030 which was a collaborative work with artists Dan the Automator and Kid Koala. Del also released another collaborative work with the Hieroglyphics crew in 1998, which was also the Hieroglyphics crew's first album, 3rd Eye Vision.ĭel performing in Red Deer, Alberta in 2006 Future Development became available in 1998 and was only available on the Hieroglyphics website in tape form but was re-released in 2002 on the Hieroglyphics Imperium label. Together with his crew, Del established his own independent record label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings, which primarily consists of an expanded Hieroglyphics roster and a few other artists with whom the group collaborates on a regular basis. About a month before the release of his third album, Future Development, Del received a letter from his label, Elektra, stating that his contract had been terminated. No Need for Alarm helped to expose both the regional Oakland sound of hip hop, as well as the freestyle based, "golden era 90s" style of hip hop being expanded at the time.ĭel would not produce another album for five years. No Need for Alarm saw the introduction of the Oakland clique Hieroglyphics, whose original members included Souls of Mischief (Opio, A-Plus, Phesto and Tajai), Casual, Pep Love, Del, and producer Domino. Ultimately Del, who was not pleased with the limited musical range of the album, severed his production-artist relationship with Ice Cube for his next album, No Need for Alarm. The album was a commercial success largely due to the popularity of the hit single " Mistadobalina". In 1991, with the help of Ice Cube, Del released his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here, at the age of 19. Music career 1988–1997: Early life and beginnings īorn in Oakland, California, he is the cousin of seminal West Coast rapper Ice Cube, and began his career writing lyrics for Ice Cube's group Da Lench Mob. ![]() Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12, 1972), better known by his stage name Del the Funky Homosapien (sometimes stylized as Del tha Funkee Homosapien) or Sir DZL, is an American rapper. ![]()
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