I’ve been neglecting my CFB fam but what better time to slide back in with a throwback what with Bliz’s buzzworthy Schooly D Mix in fresh circulation and my right calf muscle still twitching from all of the B-Boy dancing I did at the ridiculously epic “The Year is 1988” party this past weekend? Thanks to both, I’ve taken a break from April’s sudden electro-pop obsession to come back home to my beloved old-school hip-hop. The first song I had to look up was “Mistadobalina,” by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (who I had no idea was Ice Cube’s cousin). Check it out:
Cute and catchy song, but “fraudulent foe with the strength of Hercules/the way ya on my dick must really hurt ya knees” is the perfect example of a lyric that I didn’t pick up on in 1991 when this song came out. Aside from exchanging his “Tha Funkee” for the linguistically preferable “The Funky,” Del hasn’t changed his style much. He just dropped the album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) last month – it’s free and even comes with written lyrics, which I find pretty odd but at least I’ll catch his next hip-hop quotable if there’s one to be had. I’ll leave that for y’all to judge.
“Disguises come in all sizes and shapes/notice the facade of the snakes”
“with jeans and a dirty white hoodie, seems like he wouldn’t be a snake, but would he?”
that was the very first hip hop “cassingle” I ever bought… it had some remix on it that started with your choice quotable. my brother had fun prank calling the girls in his class he didn’t like and leaving it on their answering machines.
you didn’t know he was Ice Cube’s cousin? did you not ever listen to the whole album “I Wish My Brother George Was Here”? Cube is all over it! Especially “Hoods Come in Dozens”.