Sold Date: June 25, 2021
Start Date: March 25, 2021
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Available again. In the early 90s hip hop took a turn and gangsta-style rap dominated, making waves off the West Coast that rattled throughout the world. The East Coast's dominance was descending despite the success and positivity of Native Tongues acts like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, who favored thought-provoking humor and cleverness over gangsta rap's grittiness and grim outlook. It was in this landscape that Oakland, CA’s Del The Funky Homosapien emerged in 1991, with his debut release "I Wish My Brother George Was Here". Cribbing equally from the East Coast's irreverence and wit, and the West Coast's P-Funk inspired production (the album was produced by Del’s cousin Ice Cube), Del's debut has rightly been heralded as a benchmark album for underground hip hop. "I Wish My Brother George Was Here" not only produced the underground classics "Dr. Bombay" and "Mistadobalina" (#9 on the 1992 Hot Rap Tracks Charts), but also set the scene for the success of the other less gangsta West Coast artists like The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship, and of course Del’s compatriots in Souls of Mischief. Above all else, Del is credited with injecting some much needed light-heartedness at a moment when it was truly needed. Since his debut Del has gone on to work alongside Gorillaz, Wu-Tang Clan, El-P, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and as a member of the acclaimed hip-hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and even with Dinosaur Jr.

Trackliste

A1 What Is A Booty
A2 Mistadobalina
A3 The Wacky World Of Rapid Transit
B1 Pissin On Your Steps
B2 Dark Skin Girls
B3 Money For Sex
B4 Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo
C1 Prelude
C2 Dr. Bombay
C3 Sunny Meadowz
C4 Sleepin On My Couch
D1 Hoodz Come In Dozens
D2 Same Ol Thing
D3 Ya Lil Crumbsnatchers