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Militant Vinylist Presents Hieroglyphics mixtape

 

Intro

Souls of Mischief - That’s When Ya Lost

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo (Remix)

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Made In America (SD50 Mix)

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Made In America (Whoopi’s Mix)

Souls of Mischief - 93 ‘Til Infinity

Souls of Mischief - Let ‘Em Know

Del The Funkee Homosapien - No Need For Alarm

Del The Funkee Homosapien - No More Worries

Casual - We Got It Like That

Souls of Mischief - Never No More (Seville Mix)

Souls of Mischief - Make Your Mind (Rock On Mix)

Souls of Mischief - Batting Practice (Original Mix)

Souls of Mischief - Souls of Mischief

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Catch A Bad One

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Dr Bombay (Remix)

Hieroglyphics - All things

Souls of Mischief - Disseshowedo

Extra Prolific - In 20 Minutes

Souls of Mischief - Times Ain’t Fair

Souls of Mischief - Dirty D’s Theme

Pep Love & Jay-Biz - Get ‘Em Up

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Hoodz Come In Dozens (SD50 Remix)

Souls of Mischief - Good Feeling

Extra Prolific - First Sermon

Souls of Mischief - What A Way To Go Out

Souls of Mischief - Chaos And Turmoil

Souls of Mischief - Ya Don’t Stop

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Games Begin

Del The Funkee Homosapien - The Undisputed Champs

Casual - I Didn’t Mean To

Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew

Hieroglyphics - You Never Know (Domino Remix)

Souls of Mischief - Bumpshit

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Eye Examination

Souls of Mischief - Anything Can Happen

Souls of Mischief - Fa Sho Fo Real

Extra Prolific - Go Back To School

Extra Prolific - Never Changing

Souls of Mischief - Tell Me Who Profits

Souls of Mischief - Do You Want It?

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Battle Of The Shadow

Casual - Jackers and Breakers

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Stress The World

Casual - That’s How It Is

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Checkin’ Out The Rivalry

Pep Love & Jay-Biz - Can I Kill Em’

Pep Love & Jay-Biz - Everyday Of The Week

Hieroglyphics - One Life One Love

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Wrong Place

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Wrong Place (Remix)

Del The Funkee Homosapien - Boo Boo Heads

Casual - Fear No Evil

Souls of Mischief - A Name I Call Myself

Pep Love & Jay-Biz - Days Of Blueness

Casual - Me O Mi O

Souls of Mischief - Freshdopedope

Extra Prolific - Brown Sugar

Pep Love & Jay-Biz - The Blues

Souls of Mischief - Cab Fare (‘95 Remix)

Souls of Mischief - Cab Fare

Souls of Mischief - No Man’s Land

Extra Prolific - In Front Of The Kids

Casual - Follow The Funk

Uglypitch Records Presents The World Meets : Hieroglyphics

 

Here is the 4th episode of the "The World Meets" series paying homage this time to the legendary Hieroglyphics crew.

Hieroglyphics - Hiero Oldies Volume 1 (LP) - 2020

 

LP - 2020 - Hieroglyphics Imperium

 The Hiero Oldies Volume 1 is a collection of early works from the Oakland-based Hieroglyphics crew featuring Del The Funky Homosapien, Casual, Pep Love and Souls of Mischief, which was originally released on CD & Tape in 2001 and is now available for the first time on wax.  

A1 - Souls of Mischief
A2 - It Gets No Better
A3 - What Do You Say?
A4 - Gotta Lotta
A5 - Every Day Of The Week
B1 - Let it Ride
B2 - Step To My Girl
B3 - Where They At?
B4 - Nowadays
B5 - Reckless/Hush

Release Date : January 29th 2021

Pre-Orders : Fatbeats / HHV  

Flippin' Da Trax - Rap Pages November 1993

From Rap Pages - November 1993 - Scans courtesy of Fred Thecle 

Hieroglyphics in Rap Pages - 1993

From Rap Pages - July 1993 - Scans courtesy of Tim Burton 

Take It Personal Ep 50 : The Official Hiero Tribute

"If you’re going to Hiero Day, EPISODE 50 is going to enhance your experience exponentially. If you aren’t attending, this is the next best thing. We interviewed Del, Domino, Casual & Tajai and we’ve got stories for days! We talk about Del doing shrooms with Q-Tip to Casual freestyling with Pharoahe Monch at the Gavin. Of course, we touch on Casual vs. Saafir and the impact it had on battle rap. We find out Ice Cube wasn’t a fan of Gang Starr and thought Kool Keith was too weird (ya don’t say?). Del explains what it was like not only being cousins with Ice Cube, but their musical similarities and his involvement earlier on in his career. We learn about Del’s feelings towards the Gorillaz, while Domino breaks down just about every Hiero collaboration imaginable. We talk I Wish My Brother George Was Here, ’93 Til Infinity, No Need For Alarm, Fear Itself, Like It Should Be and No Man’s Land. We discuss their rap dominance prior to being dropped by the label. Tajai’s breaks down his feelings towards the group’s sophomore album and the importance of each album sounding different.

Special guests Slug, Murs, Apathy, J-Zone, The Grouch & Breakbeat Lou also share their feelings on the Hiero collective and lace us with some of their fondest memories of the music. You’ll hear many gems and plenty of "LOL" moments, as well as plenty rewind moments on our Official Hiero Tribute show.

EPISODE 50 can be a fast burn or a slow one, we just hope the burn lasts forever because Hiero is forever!" - Take It Personnal Radio 

1.     Del - DEL Meets The Dummies

2.     Souls of Mischief - That's When Ya Lost

3.     Souls of Mischief - That's When Ya Lost (Remix)

4.     Del - No Need For Alarm

5.     Del - Wack MC's

6.     Souls of Mischief - Let 'Em Know

7.     Del - The Undisputed Champs feat. Q-Tip, Pep Love & Jay-Biz

8.     Casual - That's How It Is

9.     Casual - That's How It Is (Remix)

10.   Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity (Remix)

11.   Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity

12.   Hieroglyphics - Oakland Blackouts

13.   Hieroglyphics - You Never Know

14.   Hieroglyphics - Make Your Move feat. Goapele

15.   Hieroglyphics - Make Your Move feat. Goapele (9th Wonder Remix)

16.   Hieroglyphics - Miles To The Sun

17.   Extra Prolific - Go Back To School feat. Pep Love

18.   Extra Prolific - In 20 Minutes

19.   Casual - I Didn't Mean To (Remix)

20.   Casual - I Didn't Mean To

21.   Del - Wrong Place

22.   Del - No More Worries feat. A-Plus, Snupe & Casual

23.   Casual - Me-O-Mi-O

24.   Casual - Me-O-Mi-O (Domino Remix)

25.   Del - Catch A Bad One (Remix)

26.   Del - Catch A Bad One

27.   Del - Mistadobalina

28.   Del - Mistadobalina (Remix)

29.   Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood feat. Del

30.   Souls of Mischief - Spark (RJD2 Remix)

31.   Casual - Turkey & Dressin'

32.   Pep Love - Crooked Angles

33.   Pep Love -The Fight Club

34.   Hieroglyphics - Respect Deez

35.   Casual - I Gotta (Get Down)

36.   Souls of Mischief - Rock It Like That

37.   Del - Worldwide

38.   Souls of Mischief - Disseshowedo

39.   Souls of Mischief - Live And Let Live

40.   Souls of Mischief - Cab Fare

41.   Souls of Mischief - What A Way To Go Out

42.   Del - Burnt feat. Hieroglyphics

43.   Del - Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo

44.   Casual - Father Figure

45.   Casual - Same O.G.

46.   Kool DJ EQ - Three Emcees feat. Xzibit, Del & Casual

47.   Prince Ali (Mahershala Ali) - The Majors feat. Planet Asia, Keith Murray & Casual

48.   Hieroglyphics - After Dark

49.   Souls of Mischief - Where The Fuck You At?

50.   Deltron 3030 - Mastermind

51.   Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact

52.   Gorillaz - Rock The House feat. Del

53.   Del - Dr. Bombay

54.   Casual - Later On (Remix)

55.   Extra Prolific - Cash Money feat. Casual

56.   Extra Prolific - First Sermon

57.   Del - Miles To Go

58.   Del - Thank Youse

59.   Del - Phoney Phranchise (Domino Remix)

60.   Hieroglyphics - Classic

61.   Del - Time Is Too Expensive

62.   Pep Love - Act Phenom

63.   Souls of Mischief - Lalala

64.   A-Plus - Californication feat. Del

65.   AmpLive - Video Tapez feat. Del

66.   Del - Jaw Gymnastics feat. Casual

67.   Del - Eye Examination

68.   Souls of Mischief - Unseen Hand

69.   Souls of Mischief - Never No More (Remix)

70.   Hieroglyphics - The Who (A-Plus Remix)

71.   Del - Sleepin' On My Couch

VA - The Daisy Age 2xLP - 2019

2xLP - 2019 - ACE Records 

"It wasn’t really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that briefly permeated pop, R&B and hip hop. The name was coined by Long Island trio De La Soul; they claimed D.A.I.S.Y. stood for “da inner sound, y’all”, but then De La Soul said a lot of things. Playfulness and good humour were central to their 1989 debut album, which cast a long, multi-coloured shadow. The 90s, it promised, would be a lot easier going than the 80s.

In Britain, the timing for De La Soul’s “3 Feet High And Rising” couldn’t have been better. The acid house explosion of 1988 would lead to a radical breaking down of musical barriers in 1989. Just 18 months earlier, snobbery had been so rife that Bomb The Bass’ ‘Beat Dis’ was faked as a US import (pressed in the States, then imported back) to get club play; by the summer of ’89, however, something as previously unhip as Chris Rea’s ‘Josephine’ could become a dancefloor hit and indie veterans Primal Scream would be reborn as space-seeking Sun Ra initiates and still taken seriously. Ecstasy was largely responsible, of course, and its associated look – loose clothing, dayglo colours, smiley faces – chimed with the positivity of rising New York rap acts the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul, both at the heart of a growing collective called Native Tongues.

What was so new about De La Soul’s sound? Previously, sample material for hip hop had been almost exclusively taken from 60s and 70s soul and funk, especially from James Brown and his extended family – Bobby Byrd, Maceo Parker, Lyn Collins, the stuff of purists. The freewheeling collage of “3 Feet High And Rising” gleefully raided the non-U catalogues of Billy Joel and Hall & Oates; soul heroes Wilson Pickett and the Mad Lads were now abutting such unlikely material as the Turtles’ ‘You Showed Me’ and French Linguaphone lessons. The Invitations’ sweet, Drifters-like ‘Written On The Wall’ provided the hook for De La Soul’s first single ‘Plug Tunin’’ which, along with follow-up ‘Potholes In My Lawn’, referenced “the daisy age”. With the album including a cover of Bob Dorough’s ‘Three Is The Magic Number’ from Schoolhouse Rock – a song every American kid knew from Sunday morning TV – the essence of Sesame Street was everywhere.

By 1989 hip hop had made major inroads in Britain with rock fans (via Run DMC) and pubescent teens (the Beastie Boys), while NME writers had voted Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back” the best album of 1988. Still, it had an air of exclusivity, with Tim Westwood its mirthless UK gatekeeper. De La Soul were also fans of Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and Run DMC; they were fans in general, and threw their love of music into the blender, giving more time to melodies and mind-expanding samples while most contemporary rap records still revolved around the biggest sounding beats.

Above all, De La Soul were welcoming. They had grown up with their parents’ eclectic musical taste, a TV culture grab bag, and black radio stations that played Hall & Oates and Steely Dan alongside the Spinners and Brass Construction. They had also attended the same high school as producer and Stetsasonic member Prince Paul who, intimidatingly, was two years above them. He knew their faces but it wasn’t until he heard a demo of ‘Plug Tunin’’ that he realised they were all on the same wavelength; working with their rough sketch, Paul added a sample from Billy Joel’s ‘Stiletto’ into the mix.

In 1990, the third Native Tongues act to release an album was A Tribe Called Quest, and “People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm” was heavily indebted to “3 Feet High”’s airy nature. The Native Tongues’ charismatic aura spread west to the Bay Area’s similarly minded Hieroglyphics crew (Del Tha Funkeé Homosapien, Souls Of Mischief); Canada’s Dream Warriors used the “3 Feet High” colour palette and, borrowing Count Basie and Quincy Jones riffs, scored a brace of major UK hits; Naughty By Nature were mentored by Native Tongues heroine Queen Latifah, while Londoner Monie Love was also adopted by the collective, resulting in her Grammy-nominated ‘It’s A Shame (My Sister)’.

A Tribe Called Quest’s second album, “The Low End Theory”, would pick up the baton, giving a platform for and inspiration to Leaders Of The New School (who included future superstar Busta Rhymes) and the abstract technique of Brand Nubian. Meanwhile, the Jungle Brothers’ second album, “Done By The Forces Of Nature”, was in essence a concept album about Africa, fusing hip hop with jazz, doo wop, soul, Harlem – a new direction for the Native Tongues, away from ‘Multiplication Rock’, bubble writing and the gently psychedelic.

As hip hop rapidly became a bigger commercial concern, rights owners smelt money and – for the rest of the 90s – made sample clearance unfeasibly expensive. Robbed of their pick-and-mix approach, some Daisy Age-era acts moved towards consciousness and a jazz-leaning live feel, which down the line would lead to the rise of Arrested Development, and beyond them the Fugees and the Roots; meanwhile, on the West Coast, the gut-churning violence and misogyny of Dr Dre’s “The Chronic” took rap to a whole new commercial level. Neither direction, sadly, would involve much use of Sesame Street, Turtles samples, or magic numbers." - BOB STANLEY

 Vinyl (Gatefold) & CD format are available for Pre-order.

Release Date : End of August 

Interview : The House List - Ep. 93 - Opio (Souls of Mischief)

"We triangulate our minds with the one and only Opio Lindsey on this week's epic episode. Known across globe for his work as master freestyler/rhyme-weaver with the definitively distinctive voice in Souls of Mischief and Hieroglyphics, our talk deeply delves into his story within the framework of their works and the many new endeavors in his catalog. This is a special treat for any hardcore fan. Recorded back in Brooklyn on a hot Sunday afternoon. It is a FULL ON coincidence that this is our 93rd episode of The House List podcast. My goal is to get to 100,000 streams on SoundCloud by the 100th show - so please help re-post!" - Peter Agoston 

West Side Story

From Hip Hop Connection - March 1994 

Album Review : Extra Prolific - Like It Should Be - 1994

LP - 1994 - Jive 

From Rap Pages - September 1994 - Scan courtesy of Frederic Thecle 

Del the Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni​-​Verses LP - 2018

LP - 2018 - Parallel Thought  

"Remember the old-school Marvel Team-Up comic book which paired, say, Spider-Man with Thor, Wolverine with the Human Torch, or the Hulk and Daredevil? In the spirit of those classic collaborations, Gold Dust announces Parallel Uni-Verses, a joint effort between Hieroglyphics founder Del The Funky Homosapien and original Artifacts emcee TameOne. Produced entirely by Parallel Thought, the album’s ten tracks return to a time when inventiveness, creativity, funky beats - and, above all, lyricism - ruled hip-hop" - Parallel Thought


Originally dropped digitally in 2009, the album "Parallel Uni​-​Verses" will be available soon on limited edition Purple Smoke Infused Vinyl. 100 Copies only, shipping date : February 2nd 2018

Pre-Orders  

Souls Of Mischief - Soul Destroyers - HHC 1995

From Hip Hop Connection - December 1995 

Most Slept On Albums - Stress Magazine 1997

From Stress magazine Issue#10 - 1997 - Scans courtesy of Max The Keeper

Flippin' Da Traxx : Del Tha Funky Homosapien - No Need No Alarm

LP - 1993 - Elektra 

From Rap Pages - November 1993 - Original Scan by Frederic Thecle  

From Oakland to Egypt and Beyond - The Source 1994

From The Source - February 1994 - Scans by Babylon Falling  

Read the Interview Here 

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Kool DJ EQ Feat Xzibit, Del The Funky Homosapien & Casual ‎- Three Emcees - 1997

12" - 1997 - Industry Records 

Kool DJ EQ Feat Xzibit, Del The Funky Homosapien & Casual ‎- Three Emcees - 1997

Album Review : Del The Funky Homosapien - No Need For Alarm - 1993

LP - 1993 - Elektra 

-= From HHC - December 1993 =- 

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