What’s even more awesome to me is that he seems to feel he was compensated fairly for it too - so many times we get stories of artists being stiffed out of proper recomp or squeezed dry; glad to hear “that paid for my house, man!”
That song started my Gorillaz fever like 13-14 years ago. Their new songs really kept me in the game, but Del performing nowadays his songs with them? Thats just insane! Im so happy Del enjoyed performing with them.
@@royliber3824 For sure, and he also did the DELTRON 3030 album w/ Dan "The Automator" Nakamura who also worked heavily w/ Gorillaz. Highly recommend giving it a listen if you haven't heard it. Excellent album!
Clint Eastwood is an amazing track, I remember as a kid I didn't listen to hip hop, but I knew there was something different about that track. The beat is sick, the rhymes are dope esp for a rap song that was on mainstream radio, it was unusual to hear good rhymes like that on the radio.
Wow, imagine someone talking to you about your big hit that paid your house and you still take that time to mention how happy you were that another artist got some exposure. This guy has the best attitude I've ever seen in the music business. No wonder he got his, well deserved! Very refreshing perspective and work ethic, now that is real success as a true artist.
Hiero & Del really did put together samples & loops that were so creative at that time. I remember constantly waiting for the next hiero or casual or Del single to drop just to hear it for the 1st time & be like mesmerized. Damn I miss my youth
Thats how I was with Hiero. I bought everything. They had the best remixes and b-sides. I drove to a different town outside of B-more where I lived just to get the Third Eye Vision CD.
I'm from LA, but you're right. The Bay never does get it's props it deserves. Really dope funky shit. LA low-key got some of that swag and funk from the Bay
Man I'm with you but I can name a gang of bay rappers I wanna see on Vlad before Joe Blow...Nickatina should be on here...at the same time maybe a few cats don't want this particular spotlight...
Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater, Dead Kennedy’s, Metallica, east bay punk like Operation Ivy, Rancid and Green Day, Funk music like Sly and Con-Funk-Shun, the earliest “explicit” rap (like NWA and Ice-t) always includes Too Short in the description, Mac Dre is still influencing rap to a huge degree today, and underground backpacker crews like Hiero, Hobo Junction and Living Legends....the bay has always put out influential music
To be honest, I wasn't even really fuckin' with west coast hip hop until I heard Del, Hieroglyphics and The Pharcyde. They opened me up big-time because that coast was mostly gangsta/pimp/gang culture type shit. Before we knew it, the Hiero logo was popping up all over the place.
Del humble af got so many ill records that put. Stamp on Ca hiphop . Been fucking with del and souls 4 ever. Ca stand up. Casual still dropping heat . Legends .
I wish Vlad brought up BothSidesOfTheBrain and how the Sauce gave it a weak ass rating... Shit was ahead of it’s time and as a Del/Hiero fan I was upset back then... And clearly still am. Hahaha.BothSides still my favourite Del album.Glad to see him do an interview here on VladTv.
I’m a huge Deltron Zero fan but I’ll be honest, I loved the hook of that song more then anything else. The art work was cool too but I’m not into anime so I really drinking get caught up in it like that. The hook was so joyful though
I see destruction and demise, corruption in disguise From this fucking enterprise, now I'm sucked into your lies Through Russel, not his muscles But the Percussion he provides with me as a Guide Y'all can see me now, 'cause you don't see with your eye You perceive with your mind; that's the inner So I'ma stick around with Russ and be a mentor Bust a few rhymes so motherfuckers remember Where the thought is, I brought all this So you can survive when law is lawless Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead No squealing, remember that it's all in your head
I don't care how good of a rapper you are you'll never spit a bar as ice cold as "feelings, sensations that you thought was dead, no squealing, remember that it's all in your head".
He really played a big part in the gorillaz discography back then but he's too humble to take the credit he deserves.... he a hall of famer at this point
