“3030” by Deltron 3030

"3030" comes from the self-titled 2000 debut by Deltron 3030, the hip-hop supergroup that teamed rapper Del the Funky Homosapien with producer Dan the Automator and DJ Kid Koala. The credits split the labor cleanly: Del wrote the words and delivers them, Dan composed, arranged, produced and mixed the track, Kid Koala works the turntables, and Teren Jones is listed among the writers too.

The album around it is a rap opera that plays out in a bleak 3030, with Del cast as Deltron Zero, a jaded mech soldier and computer genius who takes on a 31st-century New World Order, where oligarchs crush human rights and hip-hop alike, by winning one rap battle after another. Dan wraps it all in a thick, eerie atmosphere, and Del's rhymes swing from social critique to jokes to space-war heroics.

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