Golden Era (Del the Funky Homosapien album)

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Golden Era
Del tha Funkee Homosapien Golden Era.jpg
Studio album by
Del the Funky Homosapien
ReleasedApril 19, 2011 (2011-04-19) [1]
Genre Hip hop
Length41:54
Label The Council [1]
Del the Funky Homosapien chronology
It Ain't Illegal Yet
(2010)		Golden Era
(2011)		Root Stimulation
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The A.V. Club C+ [4]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [5]
Okayplayer 89/100 [6]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
RapReviews7/10 [9]
Spectrum Culture3.6/5 [10]

Golden Era is the ninth solo studio album by American hip hop musician Del the Funky Homosapien. It was released by The Council in 2011. The CD edition comes with two bonus discs: Automatik Statik and Funk Man. It peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, [11] as well as number 65 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [12]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76% based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Kiel Hauck of PopMatters gave the album 6 stars out of 10, saying, "Golden Era, like so much of Del's previous work, captures the feeling of a simpler yet better time in hip-hop, before the glitz and glamour, the high dollar music videos, and the painful overuse of that detestable thing called Auto-Tune." [8] He added: "Regardless of if you were hoping for more from Del in his latest offering, Golden Era is a good summer album and a reminder of all of the things you loved about hip-hop growing up." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Break the Bank"3:41
2."Calculate"3:24
3."Double Barrel"3:53
4."Makes No Sense"3:51
5."One Out of a Million"3:46
6."Pearly Gates"3:42
7."Raw"3:40
8."Upside Down"4:00
9."Descending"3:13
10."Fallout"3:55
Automatik Statik (CD edition bonus disc)
No.TitleLength
1."DZL Funk"3:43
2."Dammit"3:22
3."For Those Who Know"3:30
4."Weapon X Militant"4:37
5."From A-to-Z"4:01
6."Guaranteed"4:06
7."Monkey Wrench"4:11
8."I Got Whut U Need"3:27
9."Make an A** of Urself"4:13
10."Sheen and Glow"5:25
11."Super Cool"4:07
Funk Man (CD edition bonus disc)
No.TitleLength
1."Get It Right Now!"4:53
2."And They Thought That Was Hell"5:12
3."Fit Like a Glove"4:43
4."Go Against the Grain"4:23
5."Hardcore Punks Can't Take It"3:52
6."I'm Smellin' Myself"5:06
7."King of Fighters"5:42
8."News Alert"4:16
9."Simple Satisfaction"3:04
10."Sometimes I Gotta Get Stupid"3:44
11."Straight from the Big Bad West Coast"5:29
12."The Land of Funk"5:14
13."Young Adrenaline"4:29

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [11] 28
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [12] 65

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  4. ↑ Rabin, Nathan (April 26, 2011). "Del The Funky Homosapien: Golden Era". The A.V. Club . Retrieved September 26, 2018.
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  6. ↑ Reynolds, Jason (April 7, 2011). "Del the Funky Homosapien". Okayplayer . Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  7. ↑ Harvell, Jess (April 29, 2011). "Del the Funky Homosapien: Golden Era". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 Hauck, Kiel (July 12, 2011). "Del the Funky Homosapien: Golden Era". PopMatters . Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ Juon, Steve (March 22, 2011). "Del the Funky Homosapien :: Golden Era :: The Council". RapReviews. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  10. ↑ Hanover, Nick (May 17, 2011). "Del the Funky Homosapien: The Golden Era". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
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