Hieroglyphics Deciphered

Easily as prolific as Wu-Tang, Oakland’s Hieroglyphics collective have a staggering back-catalogue. But where to start? <b>Phesto</b> gives us a few ideas…

Feature by Phesto | 29 Jan 2010

Hieroglyphics – You Never Knew (3rd Eye Vision)
This is a crew track, but it’s not in the normal mode of a crew track where you would have each rapper freestyling about any old thing. This song speaks to Hieroglyphics and the way we see ourselves and it shows that we know how to construct a good song!

Souls of Mischief 93 ‘til Infinity (93 ‘til Infinity)
With 93 'til, I think it has a feeling about it that’s very representative of youthful energy and when we first came out that’s what we were all about. Souls of Mischief; even our name implies that. We took the negative energy that was all around us and turned it into something positive.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien Catch a Bad One (No Need for Alarm)
Lyrically, this is just a dope track and Del is on point. My man Casual made the beat, which is sick; with the layered cellos…I don’t think anything sounded like that before this track came out.

Montezuma's Revenge by Souls of Mischief is released via Hiero Imperium on 8 Feb.

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