Review → Deltron 3030 – 3030 (2000)
Deltron 3030 - 3030
Del tha Funkee Homosapien is the main voice of the Deltron 3030 project, and is an underground rapper from California. Initially notable for being Ice Cube’s cousin, he made a name for himself with his intelligent rhymes that had more to talk about than the gangsta rappers of the time. After a trio of albums, he hooked up with Dan the Automator (Handsome Boy Modeling School, Gorillaz) and Kid Koala to form the supergroup Deltron 3030.
The Deltron album can be seen as a sort of proto-nerdcore. This is a concept album, concerning hip-hop in the year 3030. It stars Del as Deltron Zero, who describes such things as making contact with other lifeforms, mind upgrades, debilitating computer viruses, and an epic, intergalactic rap battle. Based solely on lyrical content, this is not anything approaching commercially-popular hip-hop; you wouldn’t expect to see a Deltron video on MTV (if they still played videos).