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07-21-2007, 12:53 AM
http://smokingsection.rawkus.com/TSS/?p=1680
TSS: What’s going on Del?
Del: What’s happenin?
TSS: Good to finally connect. You don’t have a cell phone?
Del: Nah…I don’t talk on the phone. I got a Sidekick, but I ain’t paid the bills so it’s cut off.
TSS: Ha. OK. I’m with Smoking Section, I don’t know if you know us but we…
Del: No I heard of y’all. I seen y’all online for sure doing your thing.
TSS: Yeah, thanks. I think we have the freshest content out there, but you know a lot of our draw is musical download. What do you think about that?
Del: How I feel about it? I feel like this man: It’s cool because a lot of shit you can’t get no more or you might have on cassette, know what I’m saying, or you might have the CD and can’t find it. It’s just that much easier to download it at that moment, or if you want to check something out, know what I mean, before you get it, to see if it is worth your merit or whatever. I don’t mind it on that level, but there’s a lot of cheapos out there who think they can just download shit and never buy a fucking record.
TSS: I have to agree. The way I see a lot of artists reacting is people are starting to put a lot of records, mixtapes out there for exclusive download on the internet. Have you ever thought about doing something like that?
Del: I was going to do an album called Achilles Heel and I was going to give the motherfucker away online for free. This is before this downloading shit even happened like now, this was like five or six years ago.
TSS: What happened to it?
Del: Nothing. I still got the songs. Shit man, I got to focus and finish my fucking album. I just stopped thinking about the motherfucker basically.
TSS: Where are you right now? How is the tour going? What is the structure of this tour?
Del: I’m basically trying to hit up shit I ain’t hit in a while. Canada, um, Alaska is basically where I’m at. Just came out of Alaska…we in Canada now.
TSS: Does all of your sound – an American sound or a Bay sound – translate into the context of the Canadian experience?
Del: I would imagine everyone experiences hip hop in their own way. They [Canadians] feel it for sure. I was out there, they was hyped, they was hyphy, they loved it. I ain’t got no complaints about how they received me. I don’t know how they receive everyone else, but while I was out there they showed me hella love. Which is good because it was a pain in the ass to get out there. Both Canada and fucking Alaska especially because flight after flight after flight, I was a madman when I got out there. In Canada, you can’t cross the fucking border without them looking up your bootyhole. When you do get out here they show you a lot of love because they know what it takes to get out here.
TSS: Yeah, I heard you got hassled crossing the border.
Del: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, they got to do that. They got to be some dicks about it. They don’t like us. They want their shit to be theirs. They don’t want us assholes for the US coming up here, they’re like don’t come. Feel me? That’s them at the border feel me? They always going to be like that. I don’t like it at all. I want a motherfucker to kiss my ass.
TSS: You listening to any Canadian hip hop right now?
Del: A little bit.
TSS: I was listening to the new Kardinal mixtape which is fire.
Del: We were listening to that on the road. Swollen Members is my people. Sauks [Saukrates] you know what I’m saying. You hear Sauks now and then because he is down with Redman.
TSS: You’re a big gamer. I don’t know if you have much time on the bus to mess with the new gaming systems out there.
Del: Not really man. I’m pretty much in production mode all the time. I got video games. I buy ‘em all. I don’t get a chance to play ‘em though. I got 360. I got fucking the Nintendo Wii. I got the main shit that’s clean. I buy the games, but I never get a chance to get on them and play them because I’m always trying to make some music, get new sounds or whatever. I’m a grown man now. Still LOVE video games though.
TSS: My roommate just got that Wii.
Del: It’s lightweight for the little kiddies. But you know Nintendo is hyped. None of this shit wouldn’t even be out if it wasn’t for Nintendo you know. They brought the whole shit back. It’s a workout though.
TSS: I feel like it’s a workout for kids who don’t go outside anymore.
Del: You could definitely say that. But kids be going outside, it seems like it ain’t like that though. There is just way more shit to keep you inside now like if you ain’t athletic you know what I’m saying.
TSS: Speak on 11th Hour, the new one.
Del: 11th Hour about to come out, know what I’m saying. Looks like I’m possibly fucking with El-P you know for the release of this through Def Jux. I’ve known El-P for a long time. That’s my boy man. Looks like it’s going down like that.
TSS: I didn’t know that.
Del: I didn’t know that neither. We just came to that conclusion.
TSS: The new El-P is crazy.
Del: Of course. That motherfucker is crazy. But 11th Hour is my best work to date. It’s a Del album so don’t expect to be listening to no crazy space shit or none of that shit. If you want that you got to listen to Deltron. This is strictly about me, how I get down, my real world shit and I how I get through it. I don’t just leave it as ‘this is what’s affecting me, I hate it,’ you know, I got solutions to get through shit. I don’t just sit there and complain about shit, I try and figure out a way to move through it whether it’s the right way or not. Sometimes it might not be the right way, you know what I’m saying? Sometimes I got to fuck someone up. That’s just too bad for whoever is in my way. Its survival, if I got to survive I don’t think about nobody else. But I try to be cool. I try to be approachable. I ain’t trying to fuck nothing or nobody up for no real, real, real, good reason. Someone’s got to be a major roadblock for me to start wilin’ out, it’s got to be going on for a minute. That’s basically what you got on the album. I tried to keep it at that. I tried to keep it on what is Del really about, what type of music do I really be feeling. Instead of trying to squeeze in everything Del is interested in on one album which is what I feel I have done a lot of times. I think that isn’t fair to the listeners. It’s too much, you don’t get a chance to see what Del is about. Ima do it like this, I’m going to centralize what Del is really about, and that other shit I am going to save for other projects I got.
I got another project I finished with A-Plus from Souls of Mischief and AAGEE. Both of ‘em got a production company called Compound7. They just did an EP for me called LED that’s Del spelled backwards. That one is finished.
Deltron, hmm…I started writing a little bit of it. The album is done basically musically. I got to take the time to write it. I got to be in a certain state of mind to write that shit. When I wrote the first Deltron, all I did was play video games all day, watch cartoons all day, read comic books all day, and explore shit all day. At this point I’m grown, I don’t have time to do that no more. I got family I got to take care of. Got to take care of myself. Got a lot of shit to do. Some of it is catching up, playing all the damn time. Sometimes I am like ‘damn if I had only been working a little bit instead of goofing off all the time, maybe I wouldn’t have to work so hard now.’ So Deltron is going to take me getting into the mindstate to finish it. I have already figured it out though. I’ve got it ready to spin out into action figures or cartoons or comic books or whatever. I left it open-ended like that.
TSS: A lot of our readers I know like to produce. I know you keep a heavy hand in all your production. What are you working on now and what are the tips you like to pass to others?
Del: One thing is that I never think I am so dope that I can’t read nothing about sampling or something about hip hop production or something that say “hip hop” on it. Some people are like “that’s wack. I ain’t even trying to read it. This ain’t real hip hop” [mocking voice]. I think sometimes people get fooled into thinking that if it is a guide that says “hip hop” on it, like it’s like damn near “Electric Breakdance, get the record here now by so and so” [in a funny telemarketers voice, ha].
TSS: Thank you Del. Really good talking with you for the first time.
Del: No doubt. One love.
That's pretty weird. I would have thought for sure that this album, like all other hiero releases, would be through hiero imperium. Whatever though, just as long as I have that shit in my hands October 2nd!!
TSS: What’s going on Del?
Del: What’s happenin?
TSS: Good to finally connect. You don’t have a cell phone?
Del: Nah…I don’t talk on the phone. I got a Sidekick, but I ain’t paid the bills so it’s cut off.
TSS: Ha. OK. I’m with Smoking Section, I don’t know if you know us but we…
Del: No I heard of y’all. I seen y’all online for sure doing your thing.
TSS: Yeah, thanks. I think we have the freshest content out there, but you know a lot of our draw is musical download. What do you think about that?
Del: How I feel about it? I feel like this man: It’s cool because a lot of shit you can’t get no more or you might have on cassette, know what I’m saying, or you might have the CD and can’t find it. It’s just that much easier to download it at that moment, or if you want to check something out, know what I mean, before you get it, to see if it is worth your merit or whatever. I don’t mind it on that level, but there’s a lot of cheapos out there who think they can just download shit and never buy a fucking record.
TSS: I have to agree. The way I see a lot of artists reacting is people are starting to put a lot of records, mixtapes out there for exclusive download on the internet. Have you ever thought about doing something like that?
Del: I was going to do an album called Achilles Heel and I was going to give the motherfucker away online for free. This is before this downloading shit even happened like now, this was like five or six years ago.
TSS: What happened to it?
Del: Nothing. I still got the songs. Shit man, I got to focus and finish my fucking album. I just stopped thinking about the motherfucker basically.
TSS: Where are you right now? How is the tour going? What is the structure of this tour?
Del: I’m basically trying to hit up shit I ain’t hit in a while. Canada, um, Alaska is basically where I’m at. Just came out of Alaska…we in Canada now.
TSS: Does all of your sound – an American sound or a Bay sound – translate into the context of the Canadian experience?
Del: I would imagine everyone experiences hip hop in their own way. They [Canadians] feel it for sure. I was out there, they was hyped, they was hyphy, they loved it. I ain’t got no complaints about how they received me. I don’t know how they receive everyone else, but while I was out there they showed me hella love. Which is good because it was a pain in the ass to get out there. Both Canada and fucking Alaska especially because flight after flight after flight, I was a madman when I got out there. In Canada, you can’t cross the fucking border without them looking up your bootyhole. When you do get out here they show you a lot of love because they know what it takes to get out here.
TSS: Yeah, I heard you got hassled crossing the border.
Del: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, they got to do that. They got to be some dicks about it. They don’t like us. They want their shit to be theirs. They don’t want us assholes for the US coming up here, they’re like don’t come. Feel me? That’s them at the border feel me? They always going to be like that. I don’t like it at all. I want a motherfucker to kiss my ass.
TSS: You listening to any Canadian hip hop right now?
Del: A little bit.
TSS: I was listening to the new Kardinal mixtape which is fire.
Del: We were listening to that on the road. Swollen Members is my people. Sauks [Saukrates] you know what I’m saying. You hear Sauks now and then because he is down with Redman.
TSS: You’re a big gamer. I don’t know if you have much time on the bus to mess with the new gaming systems out there.
Del: Not really man. I’m pretty much in production mode all the time. I got video games. I buy ‘em all. I don’t get a chance to play ‘em though. I got 360. I got fucking the Nintendo Wii. I got the main shit that’s clean. I buy the games, but I never get a chance to get on them and play them because I’m always trying to make some music, get new sounds or whatever. I’m a grown man now. Still LOVE video games though.
TSS: My roommate just got that Wii.
Del: It’s lightweight for the little kiddies. But you know Nintendo is hyped. None of this shit wouldn’t even be out if it wasn’t for Nintendo you know. They brought the whole shit back. It’s a workout though.
TSS: I feel like it’s a workout for kids who don’t go outside anymore.
Del: You could definitely say that. But kids be going outside, it seems like it ain’t like that though. There is just way more shit to keep you inside now like if you ain’t athletic you know what I’m saying.
TSS: Speak on 11th Hour, the new one.
Del: 11th Hour about to come out, know what I’m saying. Looks like I’m possibly fucking with El-P you know for the release of this through Def Jux. I’ve known El-P for a long time. That’s my boy man. Looks like it’s going down like that.
TSS: I didn’t know that.
Del: I didn’t know that neither. We just came to that conclusion.
TSS: The new El-P is crazy.
Del: Of course. That motherfucker is crazy. But 11th Hour is my best work to date. It’s a Del album so don’t expect to be listening to no crazy space shit or none of that shit. If you want that you got to listen to Deltron. This is strictly about me, how I get down, my real world shit and I how I get through it. I don’t just leave it as ‘this is what’s affecting me, I hate it,’ you know, I got solutions to get through shit. I don’t just sit there and complain about shit, I try and figure out a way to move through it whether it’s the right way or not. Sometimes it might not be the right way, you know what I’m saying? Sometimes I got to fuck someone up. That’s just too bad for whoever is in my way. Its survival, if I got to survive I don’t think about nobody else. But I try to be cool. I try to be approachable. I ain’t trying to fuck nothing or nobody up for no real, real, real, good reason. Someone’s got to be a major roadblock for me to start wilin’ out, it’s got to be going on for a minute. That’s basically what you got on the album. I tried to keep it at that. I tried to keep it on what is Del really about, what type of music do I really be feeling. Instead of trying to squeeze in everything Del is interested in on one album which is what I feel I have done a lot of times. I think that isn’t fair to the listeners. It’s too much, you don’t get a chance to see what Del is about. Ima do it like this, I’m going to centralize what Del is really about, and that other shit I am going to save for other projects I got.
I got another project I finished with A-Plus from Souls of Mischief and AAGEE. Both of ‘em got a production company called Compound7. They just did an EP for me called LED that’s Del spelled backwards. That one is finished.
Deltron, hmm…I started writing a little bit of it. The album is done basically musically. I got to take the time to write it. I got to be in a certain state of mind to write that shit. When I wrote the first Deltron, all I did was play video games all day, watch cartoons all day, read comic books all day, and explore shit all day. At this point I’m grown, I don’t have time to do that no more. I got family I got to take care of. Got to take care of myself. Got a lot of shit to do. Some of it is catching up, playing all the damn time. Sometimes I am like ‘damn if I had only been working a little bit instead of goofing off all the time, maybe I wouldn’t have to work so hard now.’ So Deltron is going to take me getting into the mindstate to finish it. I have already figured it out though. I’ve got it ready to spin out into action figures or cartoons or comic books or whatever. I left it open-ended like that.
TSS: A lot of our readers I know like to produce. I know you keep a heavy hand in all your production. What are you working on now and what are the tips you like to pass to others?
Del: One thing is that I never think I am so dope that I can’t read nothing about sampling or something about hip hop production or something that say “hip hop” on it. Some people are like “that’s wack. I ain’t even trying to read it. This ain’t real hip hop” [mocking voice]. I think sometimes people get fooled into thinking that if it is a guide that says “hip hop” on it, like it’s like damn near “Electric Breakdance, get the record here now by so and so” [in a funny telemarketers voice, ha].
TSS: Thank you Del. Really good talking with you for the first time.
Del: No doubt. One love.
That's pretty weird. I would have thought for sure that this album, like all other hiero releases, would be through hiero imperium. Whatever though, just as long as I have that shit in my hands October 2nd!!