Del plots a comeback
Eight things I learned watching Del's new 11th Hour DVD.
(1) Del put the "nerd" in nerd rapper. His home is filled with all kinds of 40-Year-Old Virgin-esque detritus - video games, science books, computer parts, and what have you.
(2) Del doesn't smoke cigarette's, but he smokes bidis because he thinks they're better for you. But apparently they arent legal anymore(?).
(3) Del spends a lot of time at a local porno shop, where he's known as "Rollers."
(4) He cops hip-hop magazines and brocolli, among other things at Safeway. Some mornings, he'll eat a whole box of Eggos. Can anyone say "stoner?"
(5) Like a lot of '90s-era MCs, he has a stack of seventies music he listens to get into the vibe. You get the idea that weed adds to the vibe as well, but you don't see any pot-smoking at all on this DVD.
(6) The problem Del has been having putting together a new album put a strain on his relationship. His girlfriend, referred to in the film as "that crazy bitch," tried to kill him.
(7) Kids - albeit, Bay Area kids - will still show up to a Del in-store appearance. Mad people (all white, natch) are showing up to Hiero tour dates.
(8) Del is studying music theory and "composes" his shit on a computer as if he was Radiohead working on Kid A. The end product doesn't sound especially different from the rest of his oeuvre.
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