Del the Funky Homosapien

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the middle of his legendary run as an A&R at Elektra Records, Dante signed Del The Funky Homosapien, the teenage cousin of Ice Cube and founding member of the Hieroglyphics Crew. Their partnership saw the release of Del's first two albums, "I Wish My Brother George Was Here' and 'No Need For Alarm'. We hear the story of the emergence of the Oakland MC and the rise of his legendary crew.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Tony Allen audio and I'm open mic eagle and my microphone probably sounds a little
0:13.0	bit different than what you're used to hear it recording this intro in a hotel room currently
0:20.0	on a UK tour we just played Birmingham tonight and yes what this means is I should have
0:24.6	done these intros a long time ago so this is what we get we get me in a hotel room
0:29.3	we're talking about season three episode nine of what had happened was in this
0:34.7	episode we speak with Dante Ross about one of the greatest MCs of all time
0:40.6	Del the funky homo sapien Dante signed Del they released his debut album
0:47.6	which my brother George was here and a deal that involved ice cube and they
0:52.7	released his second album no need for alarm and in between those two albums Del's
0:57.8	crew Hyrule started to blow up fuel by the hit 93 till it's all an interesting
1:06.0	story as always and Dante lays it out for us adding on to a season where we've
1:13.4	heard incredible stories about Pete Rock and CL smooth MF Doom brand new
1:17.6	being Queen Latte for Day last soul we're very fortunate to have a legend has
1:24.5	been so many places and seen so many things this is the stony island audio
1:30.8	podcast network I'm open Mike Eagle and I'm in a hotel room let's get to this
1:37.1	episode also check us out on YouTube there's full episodes of what had happened
1:41.2	was liking subscribe on there and rate and review on here it helps the robots
1:48.6	love us open Mike Eagle this is season three but it happened was episode nine
1:55.9	Del the funky homo sapien
1:59.2	welcome this is open Mike Eagle this is season three what it happened was y'all we
2:04.5	got another very special guest with us he needs no introduction but if you
2:08.7	ever read the line of notes on classics from all kind of folks you know who we're
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