Gorillaz revved up their North American tour last week and last night at San Francisco’s Chase Center, there were a lot of surprises in store. Before the next Gorillaz album, Cracker Island, comes out ...

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 ...

The lead single from 2001’s Gorillaz, the self-titled debut from Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett’s virtual band, “Clint Eastwood” peaked at No. 4 on the U.K. Singles Chart, No. 57 on the ...

Gorillaz released their eighth studio album, Cracker Island, on Friday, 24th February. Three days later, the Damon Albarn-led virtual group shared the album’s deluxe edition featuring five additional ...

Finally, someone let Del The Funky Homosapien out of his cage. In 2001, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz project released their self-titled debut album. Two of that LP’s tracks had guest verses from the loopy ...

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 ...

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In 2000, the trio of rapper Del The Funky Homosapien, producer Dan The Automator, and DJ Kid Koala got together to form a nerd-rap supergroup called Deltron 3030 and to release a classic self-titled ...

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 ...

Twenty years hardly seems enough time to cover every creative alias of Teren Delvon Jones, the funky Homo sapiens better known as Del. In 2001, at his 10-year mark, the Hieroglyphics vet and Handsome ...

Teren Delvon Jones, aka Del the Funky Homosapien, is an American rapper from Oakland, California. Jones is the cousin of rapper and actor O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson.