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2000s era concept rap album about an intergalactic rap battling warrior in the year 3030. Best known for being Ice Cube’s cousin and his appearance in Gorillaz ‘Clint Eastwood’.
From pitchfork’s review in 2008:
“On Deltron 3030, he unravels an album-length narrative about the titular year, in which he's a superhero named Deltron Zero (a plot not entirely dissimilar from that of RZA's Bobby Digital). Armed with his two sidekicks, the Automator (here saddled with the unfortunate sobriquet "The Cantankerous Captain Aptos") and scratch mastermind Kid Koala (aka "Skiznod the Boy Wonder"), Deltron-Z combs the galaxy, supporting his secretive Earthling existence by participating in weird rap battles where one's rhymes summon psychic powers that physically damage the opponent.”
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The man that brought the Dungeon Family into the 2010s.
A master of melody and repetition
The creator of "Codeine Crazy"
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I'm not exactly recommending the music – the sound is very specific: punchline Detroit rap about scamming over sped-up '80s samples – so much as the total package persona. When I first stumbled on Babytron in 2019, I was drawn to his ridiculous references (Jimmy Neutron, Dennis Schröder), unpopular music videos shot in electronics departments and beginner's mustache, but also the YouTube comments saying that he looked like Drake Bell or speculating about his race. In the years since, he's gotten some good press and grown out his hair yet almost everything else is the same: tons of music, low-budget videos, rapid-fire Gen-Z Mitch Hedberg bars. He still doesn't have a Wikipedia page. When I saw him live earlier this year, someone asked me how old I was, because they were pretty sure I was the oldest person there. (I’m 34.) He headlined for like 25 minutes and missed about half of his verses because he was hitting a blunt. Stop saying that I'm offbeat if I match the tempo.
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The legend LL does the unthinkable and comes through with one of his best albums with Q-Tip of a A Tribe Called Quest on production. LL got his bars up and is blacking out throughout over impeccable beats. James Todd Smith has been making slap for 39 years and he’s not stopping now. “The Force” has been helping me power through life lately.
Nov 15, 2024
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