1 State of the Nation

This just seems to be an intro for the album, sounds like on old sci-fi movie.

2 3030

So it sounds like this is going to be a concept album that plays out like an older styled sci-fi plot using scores reminiscent of 50s 60s 40s, I don't know, just older era sci-fi movies. This song is kind of like an introductory scene that is meant to show us the protagonist who's name is Deltron Zero and where this takes place which is in the year 3030 assumed to be on Earth because of the Nasa skit at the beginning. So it sounds like this guy was a soldier that retaliated against a government that lies to it's people and is very strict and controlling. I guess he was locked up in prison for speaking against the system then easily escaped through a portal where on the outside he plans to fight this system with his magical cyber wizardry and the sweet sweet power of hip hop. Over all it does feel like a movie so far.

3 The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza

This is another skit where we are informed of a rap battle that is going down. It seems like culture in 3030 seems to have recycled the slang of 80s hip hop culture. Interesting.

4 Things You Can Do

I'm not sure if this song is supposed to be him battle rapping or just bragging, but in my head it plays out as both. So he goes to this club where the battle raps are happening and he schools it and shows everybody in this little club or pub or bar that he is the biggest bad ass around. The way the beat plays reminds me of some kind of underground club like the one in Star Wars filled with criminals and all kinds of shady individuals. I wasn't really liking that sample on the chorus at first but it ended up being not as annoying by it's second round up. The spacy scratching at the end really adds to the mysterious and possibly cynnical nature of the pub he's in.

5 Positive Contact

On this song he also seems to be bragging about is skills as a galactic warrior and all of the grand things he can do traversing the great beyond as he also goes into detail about the measures he takes to avoid being captured by the government that he is rebelling against. The way this fast paced beat plays makes me imagine that this shady club he was in was raided by soldiers and he had to flee the scene and escape being killed or captured which he succesfully does as he leaves the planet.

6 St. Catherine St.

So it seems after escaping, again in my head, he lands in a place on the planet or a different planet this is really ghetto, perhaps some kind of black market where dubious indivuduals keep trying to sell Deltron Zero items.

7 Virus

Alright, so this song establishes why he entered this black market area, it seems he has seeked out some sort of advanced hacker that he probably got the name of at the bar earlier in the album, because he wants to create a computer virus to take down every system thus crippling the evil government who's power seems to rely on this network. He also issues a warning to everybody else that the results of this virus will also effect them to so they need to prepare to be with out technology as he does it.

8 Upgrade (Brynmar College Course)

So this one starts with a robot voice I assume to be an advertisement of a college from that time and it seems like he's using the library of his college not only to gain information on how to battle his foes and build a virus, but he's also backing up all the data stored with in so all of this knowledge doesn't get lost do to the virus. The song it's self is him talking about the importance of educating yourself.

9 New Coke

So back into the slums from witch Deltron Zero lives you hear old people being old whiny bitches complaining about how things changed and hating on the bassy music the people play there.

10 Mastermind

So this song is the rapper giving the producer props, who is going under the alias Automater. I imagine Automater to be the hacker that Deltron Zero seeked out in the beginning and this song is a montage of the two taking the information they got from the library and putting it to use by programming the virus and building weapons and **** like that.

11 National Movie Review

This is a skit talking about a movie, it's inturruption seems almost like a half way point commercial advertising other movies kind of like a drive through intermission or something. I don't like it, it's intrusive.

12 Madness

This song starts out describing a future not too unlike 2017 where everybody wants to be a rapper, DJ or producer. He goes on to describe the living situation in his city and how people act there. It plays out in my head as if he was in a verbal altercation with somebody in his hood that disagrees with his ideals of rebellion.

13 Meet Cleofis Randolph The Patriarch

This is a strange skit that seems to introduce a sweet yet quirky character who offers the protagonists chocolate ships. Perhaps somebody who witnessed the tension mentioned prior and chose to introduce himself to the two rebels afterwards.

14 Time Keeps On Slipping

This is another song where Deltron Zero brags about his ability and ties it into rap. I imagine this to be where Deltron and Automater gear up and prepare a rebellion to battle against the oppressors. It's notable that the hook on this one was really annoying.

15 The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Microsoft Inc.)

I don't know what was said in the skit, it's in a different language, in my head it's a news cast spreading propaganda of the rebels being a terrorist organization.

16 Turbulence (Remix)

This song goes into detail on the type of life these people live under their oppressors and how shady people can act in these times of desperation, how they have destroyed their planet so bad that aliens won't even visit their planet. To me it sounds like a final rally before they jump into their starships and fly out for a climactic battle where they will introduce the virus to the main frame or something.

17 The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza Part 2

This is another advertisment for a rap battle where this time women will battle children. Sounds like a double entendre for the final battle against the evil empire as if they are speaking in code over the radio so the government won't find out.

18 Battlesong

In this song they travel to different planets and battle with different foes using the whole battle rap double meaning to describe the events that happen here. After defeating these foes who in my head are military leaders he uses found information to travel to where I assumed they'd go in the first place, the main base where the computer that needs the virus is at.

19 Love Story

Nope, I guess he becomes some kind of hero for battling all of these dudes from around the galaxy, he gets cocky, then gets fired from his job, then meets some fine chick with a 3 cheek booty and one eye and tries hitting on her. I'm so lost now, my personal narrative is destroyed.

20 Memory Loss

Another song about the hostile conditions on his home planet and how it seems like people are just trying to forget their problems or forget what it was like growing up or forget past disasters as if they never happened to become more compliant with the ****ty government but I can't help thinking that perhaps Deltron Zero and Automater forgot to use that ****ing virus.

21 The Assman 460 Speaks

The outro plays that is the same speach as the intro. Almost as if it means to imply that the idea of tyranny and corrupt government and the uprising of it's fed up civillions is an endless cycle that keeps on going.

The album it's self is more of a discription of who Deltron Zero is and the conditions of how life is in this time and I think it's meant to parallel how Del The Funky Homosapien feels in current society using hip hop metaphors. Where Del provides rap skills it's matched with the skills of Deltron's cyber sorcery or what not. Even though the intrumentation of the album gives it a cinematic feel, there really is no true consistent story through out the album to mach it that I picked up on and I obviously tried to force one. Though disappointing, it does happen to give each song more purpose outside of the context of the concept album. I did enjoy this project for what it is and thanks to the recommender but it's not something I'd actively seek out too often. Tying down albums with a concept like this typically kills the replay value for me unless it's concept has some kind of meaning that speaks to me deeper than this one did. I typically don't like this beat style where they use old film samples like that but it really didn't bother me too much because he used them in a way where it didn't get old and boring, he kept a certain type of energy that kept each track alive rather than having them fall dead as what typically happens.