Every man, woman and child loves Bay Area pioneer of rapping Del The Funky Homosapien, even if they don’t know it (he was the voice that made Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s brilliant pop experiment Gorillaz a rich fake cartoon band, for anybody out there with no idea). Who would have expected at the dawn of the ’90s that cousin Ice Cube would be the innocuous family film teddy bear and Del would be the genius emcee returning periodically to lay a whimsical, abstract and vicious tongue lashing on wackness in its various forms, particularly pertaining to the rhythmic word rhyming? That would have had to have been a very specific psychic.

Less than a year after Def Jux stepped up to release Eleventh Hour, Del is returning in April with a new abuluum called Funkman, which you’ll notice is a much shorter way to say his name. If that ain’t enough to get the undie fanboys salivating, and it is, it is also worth noting that he is dropping hints of an impending re-emergence in 31st century android character as Deltron Zero, the robot he played on the classic Deltron 3030 with funk support from the Automator and Kid Koala. And, ladies and gentlemen, as if that wasn’t enough, Del is doing even Radiohead one better.

Funkman will not be a name your price release (a model popularized by Radiohead on In Rainbows). The new Del The Funky Homosapien release will be available on his website starting April 7 for the low, low price of free. Go ahead and click that last sentence just to get yourself excited. You’ll find he already has a few Leak Pack promos up for your free, legitimate downloading pleasure. The man is giving it all away for the cause of a funkier world, and dammit we need that now!