Oakland underground rhyme veteran Del The Funky Homosapien still gets busy. Today (April 20), the Hieroglyphics member teams up with producer Amp Live on the new LP, Gate 13. The album contains the ...

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Better than: The GZA’s show a few weeks at ago at The Loft, despite a less-hip-hop-friendly venue. Del tha Funky Homosapien raised eyebrows recently when he moved to a new label and was absent from ...

For several years, the whereabouts of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien were a complete mystery. Resurfacing on a few tours, including some with his Hieroglyphics brethren, Del spent the past six years ...

Del The Funky Homosapien got his first big break in 1991, when his cousin Ice Cube helped get him a record deal with Warner’s now defunct Elektra imprint. Things with the label didn’t pan out, but Del ...

Del the Funky Homosapien has contributed his share to the canon of hip-hop classics. His first two albums, the funk-infused I Wish My Brother George Was Here and the harder-edged, battle-rapping No ...

South Central Los Angeles, 1987: Teren Delvon Jones was staying at his aunt's house, visiting his cousin, O'Shea Jackson, whose rap name was Ice Cube. Across the street, Jones noticed somebody playing ...

Chuck D once famously called hip-hop the CNN of the Black community, the way people got the news. Is it still? If so, what is the news coming across, who is telling it most profoundly? I feel hip-hop ...

Del tha Funkee Homosapien has collaborated with Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School and The Coup. He’s had tracks featured in video games like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and movies like Beerfest. But ...

A funky, unsung (and still problematic) classic that helped break down barriers on the West Coast. Del the Funky Homosapien Injured by Drunk Driver in Colorado Del the Funky Homosapien Injured by ...