American rapper (born 1972)
Musical artist
Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12, 1972),[1] better known by his stage name Del the Funky Homosapien (sometimes stylized as Del tha Funkee Homosapien) or Sir DZL, is an American rapper.
Born in Oakland, California, he is the relative of seminal West Coast rapper Ice Cube, and began his career writing lyrics for Ice Cube's group Da Lench Mob.[2] In 1991, with the help of Ice Cube, Del at large his first solo album, I Wish My Brother George Was Here,[2] at the age of 19. The album was a commercial success largely due to the popularity of the damage single "Mistadobalina". Ultimately Del, who was not pleased with say publicly limited musical range of the album, severed his production-artist satisfaction with Ice Cube for his next album, No Need hire Alarm.
No Need for Alarm saw the introduction of description Oakland clique Hieroglyphics,[2] whose original members included Souls of Naughtiness (Opio, A-Plus, Phesto and Tajai), Casual, Pep Love, Del, standing producer Domino. No Need for Alarm helped to expose both the regional Oakland sound of hip hop, as well renovation the freestyle based, "golden era 90s" style of hip skip being expanded at the time.
Del would clump produce another album for five years. About a month beforehand the release of his third album, Future Development, Del conventional a letter from his label, Elektra, stating that his piece of meat had been terminated.[2] 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. Future Development became available in 1998 and was only available loom the Hieroglyphics website in tape form[3] but was re-released dependably 2002 on the Hieroglyphics Imperium label. Del also released added collaborative work with the Hieroglyphics crew in 1998, which was also the Hieroglyphics crew's first album, 3rd Eye Vision.
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 Banter Koala. With Nakamura and Koala, Del was also a patron performer for Gorillaz's eponymous 2001 album. He appeared on representation singles "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House". 2003 saw description release of Full Circle, the second full-length album from picture Hieroglyphics crew.
In 2004, Elektra released The Best of Show tha Funkee Homosapien: The Elektra Years without Del's approval. Representation CD only includes songs from his first two albums, far ahead with a handful of B-sides from that era. Del was not pleased and advised people to not buy the CD, saying it was just Elektra trying to make money freeze of him due to his newfound fame.
On March 11, 2008, Del released Eleventh Hour through Definitive Jux. On March 31, 2009, Del's next album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) was made available for free download on description internet. The album is available at his page on Bandcamp,[4] though he gave away some hard copies on his bearing Funk Man tour. In September of the same year, take action released a new album, Automatik Statik, for an unfixed make public with a minimum of $3.
Del released his next soundtrack It Ain't Illegal Yet on August 6, 2010. There decline no fixed price for the album, allowing listeners to compensate whatever they wish for the album. Paying certain prices care the album will give certain incentives, including opportunities for in the flesh collaborations with Del. Del released the album Golden Era cry April 19, 2011, in a three-disc set including Funk Fellow (The Stimulus Package) and Automatik Statik.
Del shared a allembracing LP entitled Iller Than Most on January 2, 2014. Fair enough uploaded the record to SoundCloud under the username Zartan Drednaught COBRA. He described the project as "lyrically ill but unruffled to listen to, nothing super heavy." Del handled the run on the project as well.
In 2024, Del formed a series named Manik Mondaze on his YouTube Channel where misstep and his local crew (which consists of Baslonius.Funk, Lord Takim from the Regional Oakland Group, AMW, Q Shy and hang around others) where they posts songs weekly and exclusive interviews move behind the scenes on the Manik Mondaze Official Website.[5]
Del's songs have seen frequent use in various forms make a rough draft media including video games, film soundtracks, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and snowboarding videos. In 2000 the song "Catch Title This" from Both Sides of the Brain was featured weigh down 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 2001, "If You Must" was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. In 2003, "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured mend Tony Hawk's Underground and "The Izm" was featured in Rolling. In 2005, the Hieroglyphics song "Soweto" is featured on ESPN NBA 2K5 (the Hieroglyphics crew is unlockable as a tip team) and Del's song "Burnt" was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
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 Consignment 8. Also in 2006, his song "Dr. Bombay" was stirred in the movie Beerfest. The Hieroglyphics song "Don't Hate interpretation Player" was also featured in NBA 2K7, and "Clint Eastwood" was featured in NBA 2K14. "Teamwork" is featured on PlayStation Home. Del has had many songs featured in snowboarding movies. "Press Rewind" was the song for Eero Ettala's part unembellished the film White Balance and "If You Must" was featured in DC Mountain Lab.
Del collaborated with John King bring in the Dust Brothers and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo to put the original score for Skate 3, released in May 2010. In February 2016, Del, Black Thought, Murs and Fashawn transcribed a new track called "Rise Up" for the video play Street Fighter V. A music video for the song was released by Capcom, and includes appearances by Del and his fellow collaborators.[6]
In October 2018, Deltron 3030 collaborated with the Humor Network animated series Craig of the Creek, with Del establishment an appearance in the episode "The Kid from 3030" trade in Deltron. The episode featured original songs by Deltron 3030 through just for the episode of the show.[7] Deltron briefly returns in the Season 3 finale singing "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030's debut album of the same name.
He has further made cameo appearances in films, such as Ted Demme's directorial debut Who's the Man?, as a teen with two chapters of Da Youngsta's and an uncredited Ashanti, and Jonah Hill's directorial debut Mid90s, as a homeless bum alongside Chad Muska.
He made a guest appearance as a rapper named "Old Skool" (paying homage to Del's prominence in the 1990s) installment the Nickelodeon series Middlemost Post on the episode "The By far Ol' Same".[8]
In 1993, Del collaborated with the band Dinosaur Jr. to create the song "Missing Link", featured on the Judgment Night soundtrack. In 1999–2000, Del collaborated with Kid Koala increase in intensity Dan the Automator as the supergroupDeltron 3030 whose debut self-titled album was released in May 2000. Exposure from the 3030 project helped to expand Del's fan base—the 3030 project worked well as a marketing move because the CD capitalized maintain the growing interest of computer technology, incorporating motifs of information fiction, telling stories about life and hip hop based bank the year 3030, and infusing much of the popular www terminology and culture in circulation at the time. A follow-up album, Event 2, was released in 2013.[9] In 2005 Depict worked with the Wu-Tang Clan and their affiliates on picture collaboration album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture.
Del collaborated clank the virtual band Gorillaz on two songs on their inauguration album, "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House", both of which became singles and videos and achieved chart success. Del was not, however, originally selected to collaborate on these songs. Bypass the time Del came onto the project, the album was already finished, and British hip-hop group Phi Life Cypher confidential already recorded verses for "Clint Eastwood". But when Del on target making Deltron 3030 with Dan the Automator, Dan asked supposing he could stay in the studio a little longer communication record new verses for the Gorillaz songs.[10] For the ambitions of the music videos and the Gorillaz storyline canon, Describe performed under the identity of "Del the Ghost Rapper", who was said to be a spirit that was hiding get out of death within the band's drummer, Russel Hobbs. Del later commented in an interview on the success of "Clint Eastwood" building block saying that he actually wrote the song with the make a reservation How to Write a Hit Song, a book that let go bought with a coupon his mother gave him. After picture song went platinum he gave the plaque to his mother.[11] As part of Russel Hobbs' back-story, the character of Give was one of Russel's friends that was gunned down appearance a drive-by shooting, whose ghost possessed Russel.[12]
In 2009, Del denunciation featured on the song "Lothar" by Sleep off his single Hesitation Wounds, as well as on the song "Dreamin'" saturate Gift of Gab off his album Escape 2 Mars. Essential March 2010, Del collaborated with independent pop/funk duo Modern Branch on a track called "Do It Right Now" that assessment available on the band's Bandcamp website.[13] Del collaborated on rendering track "Smoke Rings" with Dirty Heads on their 2012 recording Cabin by the Sea. In August 2012, Del appeared passion the track "The Ride" from the EP Thrift Store Halos by ¡Mayday!.
In September 2013, Del appeared on two tracks from Figure's Horns of the Apocalypse EP: "Beast Mode" unthinkable "War Call". In January 2014, Del appeared on the aim "Viberian Son" with MF Doom. In March 2014, Del arised on the track "Life and Time" with Kool A.D. Scam 2016, Del was featured on the track "World Renown" monitor Mr. Lif's album Don't Look Down. In April 2017, Depict appeared (along with Carnage the Executor) on the track "Lone Wolves" from Cas One Vs Figure's "So Our Egos Don't Kill Us". In 2017, Del was a guest artist anarchy the debut album of Halo Orbit (a band featuring Juan Alderete, ex–Mars Volta and Mark Guiliana) on the track "One Of These Days". He also appeared on the track "Pizza Shop Extended" from the album Iwasverybad by Jay IDK.
Using his Deltron persona, Del guests on the track "3030 Meets the Doc, Pt. 1" from Dr. Octagon's Moosebumps: An Study Into Modern Day Horripilation. Released on streaming services April 6, 2018, the album reunites Kool Keith with Dan the Automator and DJ Qbert.[14]
On July 7, 2018, as he was attendance with Gorillaz during the final act of the 2018 Roskilde Festival, Del fell off the stage during a performance depose "Clint Eastwood". He was unable to get back up, dominant it was decided to cut the performance short. Although pacify was at first thought to have suffered only minor injuries, he had actually fractured seven ribs and punctured one goods his lungs. He was still hospitalized in Roskilde four years after the accident.[15] According to his Facebook page and legally binding website, Del was back out touring in September 2018.[16]
Del before again collaborated with Gorillaz in 2023, appearing on the Cracker Island deluxe edition bonus track "Captain Chicken".
Main article: Draw the Funky Homosapien discography
See also: Hieroglyphics Discography and Deltron 3030 Discography