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 Del the Funky Homosapien

How are you feeling man?

Del the Funky Homosapien: I'm feeling good man. I'm just laying down a bit. We just did the Craig Ferguson show yesterday with Stone Mecca.

How was it?

Del the Funky Homosapien: It was tight. Stone Mecca is raw. They play for RZA and they are tight. We did my single "Working It". They basically replayed "Working it" with a live band. If you heard the song you're kind of like how are they going to do this? How is a band going to play this? They played it dude. You know that video game stuff that's running through the background over and over? The guitar player played that. It was off the hook dude. It comes on tomorrow.

First off, why was there such a long delay between albums for you?
Del the Funky Homosapien: I was just trying to handle my business pretty much. Part of it was I was studying music theory but that wasn't a big part of it. That probably could have been handled and dealt with easily but I had to do that while I was dealing with toxic people. The type of people that you let them in your life and then you can't get them out your life know what I mean? [Laughs] You do anything you can to get them out your life and they still don't want to go. I was dealing with that for like five years. I was also learning new technology and learning things about mixing and stuff. Pretty much switching my whole M.O. from what it was before having to go to the studio and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to record a record to now being able to do it at home.

That definitely makes it easier. What type of technology have you been using?

Del: Honestly I just fool with my Mac mostly. I got Appleton Live and I use it on my Mac. That's pretty much my whole production right there. Make beats in Live, record vocals in Live and mix sometimes in Live. I do everything in Appleton live. I've got other stuff too like MPC's and all that. I got like the little portable MPC, got the MPC 500 and I've got the MPC 1000. I mean I have a house full of instruments sitting aside. At this point it's so much easier to fool with the computer and it has everything I could possibly want. I get to do things I wanted to do on the MPC but it would take hella longer or I wouldn't be able to do it at all.

This new knowledge you've acquired, is it something you put in effect with this album?

Del the Funky Homosapien: I started it a while ago. Now that I know music theory and I know how music works, I was able to put more thought into the type of music I wanted to make. Overall I tried to keep it funky. Because I didn't know the climate of music when I came out and I didn't want to go to overboard with the funk cause I still have a lot of dedications to Hip Hop. I didn't want to go all the way to the other side. So some of the stuff I kept basic Hip Hop and the other stuff I tried to funk it up a little bit, so it's a little bit of both. Sometimes I'm touring. It took a while before I was able to just think about it and decide what I should do.

Who else helped out with the album?
Del the Funky Homosapien: K.U. helped me out, Opio did a joint for me and J-Zone did a joint for me. Ladybug Mecca iss rocking on a song with me called "I Got You."

How old is the material on 11th Hour? Do you have a lot of songs recorded that didn't make any projects?
Del the Funky Homosapien:  A lot of the songs that are on 11th Hour are up-to-date and fairly new. Some of them were from before. I had a hard drive crash and everything I had for 11th Hour was gone so I had to start over. So all the 11th Hour stuff is fairly new. There might be a couple of songs on there that are old; like "Hold Your Hand" is older.

Wow. I know those drives crashing had to hurt. I bet you have a bunch of externals now to insure back ups. [Laughs]

Del the Funky Homosapien: [Laughs] Yeah man, I mean I need to back up session on disks man. Even though they are not indestructible they don't crash.

How'd you connect with Def Jux and do you think you share a similar audience with the other artists on the label?
Del the Funky Homosapien: Def Jux I hooked up with primarily because I knew EL-P from the beginning. Those are my folks. I needed a way to put this album out now and I didn't want to wait another year or so. I had already been putting it off for a couple of years and people where starting to be like, "Okay your shit's coming out? It's not coming out? Alright man fuck it." You know what I'm saying? [Laughs] I was like I need a way to get this album out so I decided to fool with Def Jux. I knew they had a little opening and it was all good. I like the way EL-P does his thing. I seen him build it up from the start till now. So I decided to holler at him. It has worked out pretty good so far. That was the main reason I wanted to go with Def Jux cause I needed that push. I needed some kind of machine and I knew they had a machine over there that operates good. It's not like I left Hieroglyphics or I don't mess with Hieroglyphics anymore. It's nothing like that at all. As a matter of fact we are pretty much finished with the new Hieroglyphics album now.

Can you give us the scoop on Hieroglyphics and the new album?

Del the Funky Homosapien: It's pretty much finished. We've got about 12-13 songs. I know cats are going to try to add other stuff and I know they are not sold on it just yet but it's there. Opio has three volumes of his Vulture's Wisdom that he did with Architect; part one was just mastered the other day I think. So that will be coming out pretty soon. Pep Love is coming out pretty soon with Reconstruction. LED is about to come out which is DELspelled backwards. Compound 7 and I did that. It's an EP. Compound 7 is A-Plus and Aagee as a production team. There's a lot of different things we are working on. We have a bunch of artist that we've been putting out. There's this one cat named Knobody that we put out. He's hella tight and he's from the Bay. He's a straight spitter, no nonsense. We put out Musab and a couple of other groups.

We got a chance to hear Knobody spit a little spoken word piece in Boston it was tight. Since you recorded the album before working with Def Jux, do you think you'll work on something with El-P or other Def Jux producers and artists in the future?

Del the Funky Homosapien: I'm trying to work on this DEL-P joint with EL-P. We have a concept for it. Instead of calling it an EP we're going to call it a DEL-P.[Laughs] You know he's kind of busy, but he be wanting to chill. [Laughs] I be like, "Okay whenever you make some beats just shoot them to me." Lately I've been writing everyday and I'm working on my next album. My next album is going to be called Funkman. That's my next Del the Homosapien album.

Will you be working on another Deltron album in the future?
Del the Funky Homosapien: Yeah I have that half way done lyrically. The music is done. Kid Koala and Automator finished the music a while ago. It's just up to me to finish writing. I got like 6-7 written between me running around trying to do all this stuff. Get back home, finish Funkman up probably and write some more for Deltron. 

What kind of frame of mind do you have to get into to crank out projects like this?

Del the Funky Homosapien: I feel like if I don't do it like that I'm not going to be able to survive. I'm already past my Hip Hop expiration date. I'm lucky enough to be noticed at this point, so I better be working. The younger cats are coming in and they are working. Plus you know the industry is all messed up. So you have to do twice as much stuff. It's also just my M.O. everyday. I live and breathe music. Stay on the computer working on stuff, working on stuff everyday, sun up till sun down. I got my computer on right now. I'm working on some shit here. I'm at a hotel somewhere and I got my microphone with me and everything. I want to go home for a minute for personal issues but once I have that out the way I can't let that gap be there again. I'm not used to anything like that. I'm used to knocking stuff out all the time. That was a moment in my life I had to just see what it feels like to be unorganized. It's a trip and it made me appreciate the way I had it before.

What's the tour and video status for the album?
Del the Funky Homosapien: The video for "Working It" has been out for a minute. It premiered on MTVU's The Basement with Pete Rock and I think they are playing it on MTV2 as well. So it's getting a lot of love. It's on youtube too or whatever. We are doing spot dates right now and I'm trying to wrap up these other projects. I don't really want to be out on the road for long intervals. Just something real quick so I can put some money in my pocket and let people know the album is out and at the same time come back home and handle my business.

I know that's right, are you going to cop that new GTA coming up?

Del the Funky Homosapien: If I see it. If I see it I might get it honestly I don't have time to play video games as much as I used to. I spend most of my time trying to work on shit. I mean I do have video games at the house and I stood in line to get Super Smash Brothers Raw. I stood in line for like three hours to get it. So I be playing that sometimes on the Wii. I also got an X-Box but I be working man.

Anything else you'd like to add?
Del the Funky Homosapien: I just want to say peace to everybody and check out the album. It's tight. It was released March 11th and it's out now so go and get yourself one.


Drew & Andy