Eleventh Hour

Del The Funky Homosapien | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Definitive Jux
• ASIN: B0013FSV7U
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Songs Include : Raw Sewage / Bubble Pop / Back In The Chamber / Slam Dunk / Situations / Naked Fonk / Hold Your Hand / Foot Down / I'll Tell You / Workin' It / Last Hurrah / Start Up And Down / I Got You / Funky Homosapien

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars lackluster, March 14, 2008

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kinopku "!¿whut?!" (NYNY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eleventh Hour (Audio CD)

after waiting 7 years, i was expecting more. it's possible to listen to the album all the way through, so the music isn't horrible. but, you might prefer to listen to something else. del's flow seems to lack energy. the beats are just ok. gone are del's signature topical songs, where he is able to tell stories from the beginning to the end of a song. each and every song is about how mc's are wack except for him, and how people bother him in various ways. there are references to women in this album that do not seem befitting of a man in his mid-30's. there are a couple of highlight tracks. i, personally, like straight up and down. however, the album has a lazy feel to it. it isn't innovative like del usually is and can be. as a del fan from 1991, and after having waited 7 years for this album (i went to a concert in 2004 where del promised the soon release of 11th hour), this is not what i expected.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Del is a Hip-Hop genius, April 17, 2009

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Matthew M. Stone "MÅtthew Michæl" (NoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eleventh Hour (Audio CD)

Just bought it LOVE it...drop the pretentious bs and just sit back, bob your head, and enjoy it...Great hip-hop is so rare these days, and Del is GREAT.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the dopest......still pretty amazing though, March 14, 2008

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D. Waldron "Davos" (Anchorage, AK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eleventh Hour (Audio CD)

Del is getting a lot of flak for this album taking seven years to make. People were expecting epic things from this album, and the 11th Hour is far from epic.

That being said, this album has some tight cuts on it. The entire second half of the cd is amazing. His collabs with Khaos Unique and Lagybug Mecca are lyrically impeccable, and the production is totally solid. You can't mess with lines like these:

"I just come to bring you pleasure with funk, thats my forte, while others be sorbet"

"I spit some of this wickedness wisdom from, Oakland Cali, y'all slow pokes like broken athletes."

So is this Del's best album? Hell no! Personally I think his best album is Both Sides of the Brain (although he is amazing on everything he does with heiro). Still, this album is fantastic, minus a few throw away tracks. Worry not Del fans, he's still got the magic.