Pissin' on your steps.
It’s no Both Sides of the Brain or No Need for Alarm, but Del has released his new album – Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) fo’ free – $0, nil, nada. While it’s hard to argue the quality of free music, it’s not bad. Not fantastic, but not bad. I’m actually going to get a chance to see the Funkee Homosapien on Sunday, and I’m pretty excited for that. At worst, it’s another album for your music collection – you do have a music collection, right?
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I love that hes still making music, but I have a very hard time figuring out where hes coming from these days. I listened to a few tracks of this new album and, like its predecessor Eleventh hour, feels very far from anything I can connect myself with. Whether its been figurative or literal, all of his past albums have had a high replay value for me over the past ~10 years of my life due to the fact that I could for the most part “smell the shit he was steppin’ in”. Maybe because I don’t smoke blunts anymore or maybe it is an intentional move on his part to shake an undesired fan-base (See: Young white males who make websites named after video game characters and those who post on said websites), but its hard for me to achieve that same sense of levity when bumpin’ his new stuff that was once felt those oh so many years ago of my smoke blown adolescence.
/end rant
I’m going to check him out Sunday because the tiggets are $12, but last time I saw him was like two years ago, and he had two points in his show where he just started unnecessarily freestyling. Yeah, he’s good at it, but it loses it’s edge if it’s done too much. I imagine it’s different for someone who grew up around the same general area Del did and seeing him go more “main stream”, and then having people like myself who grew up around Amish farms and coal factories listening to him.