Sticking to Oakland, and the Hieroglyphics crew for the today’s look at Hip-Hop 1993-1994, here’s “Wrong Place” off of Del the Funkee Homosapian’s 1993 album, “No Need for Alarm”. Built around a woozy, heavily phased guitar loop from the B.T. Express’ “What You Do In The Dark”, this track finds Del in his “stoney jester in a world not his own” mode.

“No Need For Alarm” was Del’s follow-up to the Ice Cube-produced “I Wish My Brother George Was Here” and ended up being his final album on Elektra, who unceremoniously dropped him just prior to the release of “Future Development”. Del continued to get progressively more brilliantly freaky with his independence, developing his distinctive trippiness that led to his stellar collaborations in the Dan the Automator-related projects Deltron 3030, Handsome Boy Modeling School (with Prince Paul) and Gorillaz (with Damon Albarn).