I was a young black skater growing up in the burbs of L.A. which had very few black people at the time and then Del and Hiero came out and hit the skater community like a storm. All the skaters instantly loved Hiero and put their music in all the skate videos. They literally made me feel awesome to be both black and a skater at the same time which was something I had struggled with socially for years because before then skating was seen by most people as only a white boy punk rock thing.
Takes me back to 91/92 ,way to young to drive. My bro had tight ass Stepside truck with a system. Sitting in the garage bumping Pissin On Your Steps relentlessly. All the way up to Deltron3030, Del is one of the dopest & most underrated MC's in hip hop history.
Dude, you interviewed this perfectly! Two things...you cut him off when he was going to talk about Del not really liking the 'funk' thing, but you doubled back to it and asking about the Hammer diss. Thank you!
From UK, discovering Del / Hiero was unlocking vibes i never knew existed. They were elite tier skills yet relatable, experimental but traditional. Written or freestyle or production or live show they had it down. Hiero are in their own league just like all the greats.
Heiro was borderline underground just slightly below mainstream hip hop. Anyway, the golden age of underground West Coast hip hop has a special place in my heart. This interview was great.
This brother Dante deserves a true award🏆 The Stories is off the chain,... DEL👑 was the Leader of the New School for Real Battle Emceeing on the West Coast💯 - DEL's👑 2nd Album "No Need for Alarm" gave birth to many Cipher MC's💯! #FACTS #HIERO👑 #WestCoast #KDAYLosAngeles
I've watched all of these episodes and this is some of the best content you'll find anywhere about hip-hop. You're a great interviewer and Dante Ross is a legend. Great work! 👍🏽✌🏽
Albuquerque mid to late 90s was a great skate blunt hiphop scene...Hiero, Souls, Del, BukueOne, Pharcyde, Empty Pockets (Burque), J5, Dialated Peoples, soooo many more were caught on tour. Extra Prolific!
Hiero’s my fam. I had Del’s album before it came out. My East Oakland block loved it. Especially a song on there called “Slug my Honeydip”. That was our joint right there he also had a ill song called “Ruddabega Porridge”. I feel where Del messed up is the weird album cover and album title, and the weird visuals. Had Del kept his image , concepts, and visuals streets oriented the album would done better. The music content was on point, but everything around the project was too odd for the streets to get behind it. I liked his 2nd album, but there’s only so much you can hear a rapper rapping about rapping and their lyrical super powers. Although Casual’s best songs are rapping about rapping . Casual is my folks and I still was amazed by “Turkey and Dressing”…the flow on that song is still about 100 years ahead of today’s times.
Jboogie u gotta remember Del was artist Interms of artwork wise. His mentality was just strictly from the Bay. I told Del when I was hella young , that u gonna do something that gonna be globally renown. It turn out it was the Hiero symbol. Del was our Bay Ultra magnetic MC . He did numerous things for us , he's he not the norm either. He only artist that I think of from the town that can do Lench Mob, YoYo Hiero & Gorilla then Deltron 3030.
Just got introduced to your channel🫡🫡🫡 Exceptional HOST🫡 imperative questions👍Segway snippets are fantastic👍Just overall PERFECTION in your presentation. Definitely a fan now & will be checking your content. MAJOR SALUTE to this platform. Fantastic‼️
As a 12 year old boy in New Zealand when 'I Wish My brother George Was Here' came out I couldn't play it enough (everyone I knew thought that I was weird). Today as an old 45 year old fart now living in the Czech Republic I still can't get enough of it. Sadly I've never seen Del live, hopefully one day but I won't hold my breath that he'll come to this part of the world.
It's funny, because my 23 year old loves Dels' second record (so do I) but I couldn't sell him on the first one. He just didn't see it as something he'd play a lot (unlike some 90's stuff I introduced him to) Looking back, I think I loved the first record more for what it represented to me at the time (as a kid in Oakland, who definitely wasn't gangsta) Del became my instant hero. But even then, I remember being thrown off the first time I put the Cd in and heard "What Is A Booty". Not that I didn't love PFunk, but Low End Theory had just dropped, so the bar was set in the stratosphere...and it was just a weird musical choice, in my eyes... I still fooled with it HEAVY. But looking back now, I probably played No Need 50 times to Georges 1...minus 2 or 3 songs.
I actually prefer the first album....it showcases Del's storytelling more...and his stories are on par with some of the greats. His second album is more freestyle and lyrical based
@@TheSupremeDunk He was literally raised in it, so I think his ear is a bit more tuned. But yeah, he rarely goes back past 91-90. For example, he loves Tribe and WU, but never really latched on to Rakim or Kane etc... Go figure 😂
The quirkiness of the first album is what I loved about it, along with the story telling, different soundscapes and Del’s strong lyrical performance. I was a big fan of Cube, but I was glad that Del carved out his own niche while being a member of Cube’s crew (Lench Mob). The remixes and vinyl b-sides were dope as well. Now, when the second album dropped, I was blown away. It was a darker album, but the lyrical performance and the jazz samples used were a nice departure. Something that Hip Hop sufferers from that other genres necessarily don’t, allowing an artist to challenge himself/herself and give us a new project that doesn’t sound like the previous project. I’m a fan of all of Del’s albums for different and distinct reasons.
25:05 I think it's what Dante said. If you were "alternative" at the time, you were getting the "De La" lable tossed at you 😂 On the Roots first album (Organix, not D.Y.W.M.!?!?!) Black Thought rhymes about something similar "...but I got a Soul, of my own" Hell, even De La didn't want to be compared to De La by the second album. The DAISY thing was Dead 😂
Good thing people. dont have that thing Del opened up 'Catch A Bad One' with, or we wouldnt even have this episode. Here's to not always being right!!! Salud!!!
Before they were Souls, they were called Heiros in the bay,, the demo was leaked and everyone knew,,,, thhe Taxi song i guess was never cleared , but that one was ill,,, Groove Merchants on Haight ST.... ,,LOL,,, good riddance
Hmmm? What line? I know on 'Check It Out' it's not so much a shot. But he says "why waste time in rhymes? I get straight to the point. Like I HATE when funk's in a joint..."
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I was a young black skater growing up in the burbs of L.A. which had very few black people at the time and then Del and Hiero came out and hit the skater community like a storm. All the skaters instantly loved Hiero and put their music in all the skate videos. They literally made me feel awesome to be both black and a skater at the same time which was something I had struggled with socially for years because before then skating was seen by most people as only a white boy punk rock thing.
Big shout out to anybody listening to this. Y’all are good heads, stay up.
Peace peace ✌️✌️
you too
Can’t stop watching these Dante Ross interviews. Literally revealing hip hop history secrets
How are these videos not getting more views. loving the history lessons.
Seriously these are amazing
I think they get more listens on Spotify
That part!
Totally agree. But sometimes, it's better when there's a smaller audience🤫 We get to become better historians and hoard the gems🤣
Just found it haphazardly today!
No need for alarm is the most important album from that era
Del is one of the few who speaks like he's lived the streets then spits like a scholar. So fucking dope
Takes me back to 91/92 ,way to young to drive. My bro had tight ass Stepside truck with a system. Sitting in the garage bumping Pissin On Your Steps relentlessly. All the way up to Deltron3030, Del is one of the dopest & most underrated MC's in hip hop history.
True say
Man, Dante lived a life and a half! Love to hear it.
Dude, you interviewed this perfectly! Two things...you cut him off when he was going to talk about Del not really liking the 'funk' thing, but you doubled back to it and asking about the Hammer diss. Thank you!
From UK, discovering Del / Hiero was unlocking vibes i never knew existed. They were elite tier skills yet relatable, experimental but traditional. Written or freestyle or production or live show they had it down. Hiero are in their own league just like all the greats.
No Need for Alarm was like .. for cats in the Bay.. that was untouchable. It put Bay Area rap on the map for sure.
Absolutely
Ya that album is solid start to finish no skipping any tracks
I was in high school in LA at the time. No Need for Alarm was in my walkman 24/7. That's all I played.
One my fave album from Del probably the best Album🧩😎. I like Both Side of the Brain more sonically.
Heiro was borderline underground just slightly below mainstream hip hop. Anyway, the golden age of underground West Coast hip hop has a special place in my heart. This interview was great.
Awesome 😎 interview KINGSHIP 👑💪🏾
Del is my GOAT
Just, Wow. These stories take me back to a better and simpler time. Thanks for this.
This brother Dante deserves a true award🏆 The Stories is off the chain,... DEL👑 was the Leader of the New School for Real Battle Emceeing on the West Coast💯 - DEL's👑 2nd Album "No Need for Alarm" gave birth to many Cipher MC's💯! #FACTS #HIERO👑 #WestCoast #KDAYLosAngeles
Fascinating, love it.
I've watched all of these episodes and this is some of the best content you'll find anywhere about hip-hop. You're a great interviewer and Dante Ross is a legend. Great work! 👍🏽✌🏽
I guarantee you the club he’s talking about was Mr. floppy’s by Laney college. Pretty sure I hopped the fence with you guys that night.
THANK YOU SO MUCH MIKE AND DANTE
Groove Merchant 🔥🔥🔥
Albuquerque mid to late 90s was a great skate blunt hiphop scene...Hiero, Souls, Del, BukueOne, Pharcyde, Empty Pockets (Burque), J5, Dialated Peoples, soooo many more were caught on tour. Extra Prolific!
...freestyle fellowship, hobo junction, ,etc.
Hiero’s my fam. I had Del’s album before it came out. My East Oakland block loved it. Especially a song on there called “Slug my Honeydip”. That was our joint right there he also had a ill song called “Ruddabega Porridge”. I feel where Del messed up is the weird album cover and album title, and the weird visuals. Had Del kept his image , concepts, and visuals streets oriented the album would done better. The music content was on point, but everything around the project was too odd for the streets to get behind it. I liked his 2nd album, but there’s only so much you can hear a rapper rapping about rapping and their lyrical super powers.
Although Casual’s best songs are rapping about rapping . Casual is my folks and I still was amazed by “Turkey and Dressing”…the flow on that song is still about 100 years ahead of today’s times.
Wow 😮.
Real talk
Jboogie u gotta remember Del was artist Interms of artwork wise. His mentality was just strictly from the Bay. I told Del when I was hella young , that u gonna do something that gonna be globally renown. It turn out it was the Hiero symbol. Del was our Bay Ultra magnetic MC . He did numerous things for us , he's he not the norm either. He only artist that I think of from the town that can do Lench Mob, YoYo Hiero & Gorilla then Deltron 3030.
I love this stuff!!
I love how homeboy says I got people in the Bay and THE WORLD know what he talking about!!❤❤❤❤
Just got introduced to your channel🫡🫡🫡 Exceptional HOST🫡 imperative questions👍Segway snippets are fantastic👍Just overall PERFECTION in your presentation. Definitely a fan now & will be checking your content. MAJOR SALUTE to this platform. Fantastic‼️
37:13 Future Development
Absolutely amazing interview
These are great stories. Thank you guys
Great interview 👍 brings me back!
Damn shame these vIds don't have more views. Good info and history.
For me East Coast has that jazzy vibe and my West Coast folks had the funk sound. I loved all that stuff from before 2pac & Biggie beef.
Please interview Saafir of Hobo Junction Please and peace from south africa.
I agree with this 🎉🎉🎉
Excellent interview
wow Dante linked Domino with Hiero
I always thought Del was 7 feet tall until I saw him on the Hieroglyphics 20th anniversary tour a couple years ago
Haha...and Del is like 5'3...
Great hip hop story about the greatest hip hop crew
That's dope asf you got to see em live
Burnt is a is my fondest memory. Thanks to plan-b for the nost influential skate vids and also gave us heiro...
As a 12 year old boy in New Zealand when 'I Wish My brother George Was Here' came out I couldn't play it enough (everyone I knew thought that I was weird).
Today as an old 45 year old fart now living in the Czech Republic I still can't get enough of it.
Sadly I've never seen Del live, hopefully one day but I won't hold my breath that he'll come to this part of the world.
I wake up at two to compose everyday. Done it for seven years now.
Thank You
Great interview
Love this
It's funny, because my 23 year old loves Dels' second record (so do I) but I couldn't sell him on the first one. He just didn't see it as something he'd play a lot (unlike some 90's stuff I introduced him to) Looking back, I think I loved the first record more for what it represented to me at the time (as a kid in Oakland, who definitely wasn't gangsta) Del became my instant hero. But even then, I remember being thrown off the first time I put the Cd in and heard "What Is A Booty". Not that I didn't love PFunk, but Low End Theory had just dropped, so the bar was set in the stratosphere...and it was just a weird musical choice, in my eyes... I still fooled with it HEAVY. But looking back now, I probably played No Need 50 times to Georges 1...minus 2 or 3 songs.
87-91 hiphop is a hard sell to anyone who didn't actually LIVE that period...
I actually prefer the first album....it showcases Del's storytelling more...and his stories are on par with some of the greats. His second album is more freestyle and lyrical based
@@TheSupremeDunk Definitely. The second album was pretty much rapping stream of consciousness (except for Wrong Place and Boo Boo Heads).
@@TheSupremeDunk He was literally raised in it, so I think his ear is a bit more tuned. But yeah, he rarely goes back past 91-90. For example, he loves Tribe and WU, but never really latched on to Rakim or Kane etc... Go figure 😂
The quirkiness of the first album is what I loved about it, along with the story telling, different soundscapes and Del’s strong lyrical performance. I was a big fan of Cube, but I was glad that Del carved out his own niche while being a member of Cube’s crew (Lench Mob). The remixes and vinyl b-sides were dope as well. Now, when the second album dropped, I was blown away. It was a darker album, but the lyrical performance and the jazz samples used were a nice departure. Something that Hip Hop sufferers from that other genres necessarily don’t, allowing an artist to challenge himself/herself and give us a new project that doesn’t sound like the previous project. I’m a fan of all of Del’s albums for different and distinct reasons.
28:42 My favorite hip-hop album of all time
25:05 I think it's what Dante said. If you were "alternative" at the time, you were getting the "De La" lable tossed at you 😂
On the Roots first album (Organix, not D.Y.W.M.!?!?!) Black Thought rhymes about something similar "...but I got a Soul, of my own"
Hell, even De La didn't want to be compared to De La by the second album. The DAISY thing was Dead 😂
Dope content!
Anybody know the sample from Opio's verse from Burnt?
That's long been a mystery
Yo!!! He shouts out my V-TOWN cuddy Mac Mall and that sahob hill side legend Celly Cell!!
YEE 😎
When is the MC Paul Barman episode gonna happen?
Datnte's HARD TO THE LEFT campaign made the 90's!❤
Thank Youse is my jam.
Dope series title " What Had Happened Was, " lol usually a phrase you hear before somebody tell you some fantastic bullshit 😂
Good thing people. dont have that thing Del opened up 'Catch A Bad One' with, or we wouldnt even have this episode. Here's to not always being right!!! Salud!!!
Sunny Meadowz is my favorite ❤️
📣 YOU SHOULD DO ONE WITH DANTE ABOUT THE REASON DE LA WASN'T ON SCENARIO AND THE ALLEGED BEEF BETWEEN THEM AND QUEST
De la n tribe had a beef ??
Handsome Boy Modeling School - deL ripped priNce PauL 's beat.
Oh ya that song with De la n Del is a bangerr
The rap style of Hiero and Del influenced Outkast who rapped completely like them on their first album Southernplaya...
24:35 Coincidentally Hammer became "funky headhunter".
Mike. You have a podcast?
There was another skate video to make your mind up by Souls...omg 🤯
I didnt know, Kwame, the boy genius was Del's manager.
real!
Bobcat was Boogiemen too
"I wish my brother George was here" is a shout out to Bugs Bunny isn't it?
💯
I think it’s a bugs bunny quote, but I remember hearing Del say in an interview that his “brother George” was meant to be George Clinton.
💚🤞
He's right tho. the Bay used to have some amazing energy. Now even Oakland is lame
I'm pretty sure the word is supposed to be "mainey" at 49:40 not mangy. Mainey is definitely Bay Area slang.
Right...
🎧🔥
Before they were Souls, they were called Heiros in the bay,, the demo was leaked and everyone knew,,,, thhe Taxi song i guess was never cleared , but that one was ill,,, Groove Merchants on Haight ST.... ,,LOL,,, good riddance
💯
how tfno one have a video camera? I want to hear these cyphers lmao 😂
Pissin on yer steps
I guess he forgot to talk about Extra Prolific and why he got kicked out
😂
I use to own their debut album. It was alright yet no where near as dope as Souls of Mischief’s 93 Till Infinity.
Who's the New Yorker?
Car Hart is clearly a NY thing
Show is 🔥🫡Donta MF ROSS
Felt like del was taking shots at cube on “you’re in shambles “
Hmmm?
What line?
I know on 'Check It Out' it's not so much a shot. But he says "why waste time in rhymes? I get straight to the point. Like I HATE when funk's in a joint..."
should of ask when did they clone him
Del got cloned ??
Bay area hip hop was the best.
Dante is a scrub.
Please interview Saafir of Hobo Junction Please and peace from south africa.