Angel Del Villar II (born September 24, 1980), better known by his stage name Homeboy Sandman, is an American rapper from

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, New York, United States.

Career

Homeboy Sandman recorded and released his first EP, ''Nourishment'', in March 2007. His debut album, entitled ''Nourishment (Second Helpings)'', was released in August 2007. In early 2008, Homeboy Sandman's work began to be featured on underground radio programs the Squeeze Radio Show on WKCR 89.9 FM and the Halftime Radio Program on WNYU 89.1 FM in New York. In June 2008, he was featured in Source Magazine's "Unsigned Hype" column. His second album, ''Actual Factual Pterodactyl'' was acclaimed upon its release in August 2008. The album received an entry in '' XXL''s ''Chairman's Choice'' column, which praised Homeboy Sandman's "sharp lyrics and irresistibly melodic flow, which, together, form an elastic instrument few MCs can match." Actual Factual Pterodactyl received critical acclaim in a multitude of other print and online publications, including Blender Magazine, Beyond Race Magazine, Okayplayer.com and MSN.com. At the end of 2008, Homeboy Sandman was named "Best Hip Hop Act in NYC 2008" by New York Press. Recently his music has received rotation on NYC's Power 105.1 FM and Hot 97.1 FM, the city's #1 Hip Hop and R&B radio station, as well as airplay on Spitkicker Radio (Channel 65 on XM Satellite Radio), DJ Premier's "Live From HeadQCourterz" (Sirius Satellite Radio's #1 ranked Hip Hop show) and BBC 1Xtra's Hip Hop M1X (Hosted by DJ Sarah Love). In addition to his studio releases, Homeboy Sandman has garnered attention for his live performances. From January 2008 to August 2009, Homeboy Sandman served as the host of “ALL THAT! Hip Hop, Poetry and Jazz” at the

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, New York City’s longest running open mic session (originally hosted by Hip Hop icon

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). He has performed at the biggest hip hop shows around the country, including the

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(SXSW) music festival in

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, the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival in Brooklyn, New York, the

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hip hop festival in

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, the A3C Hip Hop Festival in

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and New York City's

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. Homeboy Sandman has recorded video interviews with other performers at his live shows, which are captured in his YouTube video series "Homeboy Sandman ''presents'' Live From..." In addition to his own releases, Homeboy Sandman has appeared on records by other artists, frequently with members of the AOK Collective, with whom he is affiliated. He recently appeared on Fresh Daily's 2009 album ''The Gorgeous Killer: In Crimes of Passion'' and the 2008 album ''For Your Consideration'' released by P.SO (formerly P. Casso). Homeboy Sandman collaborated with both Fresh Daily and P.SO for the song "Get On Down," which is featured on ''Sonic Smash'', the album released in 2009 by music producer

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. Homeboy Sandman has also laid down tracks for a series of features with RIDES Magazine. The track that Homeboy Sandman created for the Loud.com challenge, "Gun Control," was cited as one of the Top 25 Songs of 2009 by Hot 97 DJ

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. On June 1, 2010, Homeboy Sandman released his third album, ''The Good Sun'', which features production from 2 Hungry Bros,

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, Thievin' Stephen, DJ Spinna, Psycho Les (

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) and Core Rhythm, among others. The first single from ''The Good Sun'' was "Angels with Dirty Faces," produced by

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. In September 2010, Homeboy Sandman released his first official video for ''The Good Sun'' for the track, "The Essence". In late 2010, Homeboy Sandman was featured as the coach in an episode of MTV's ''

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'', which premiered in October 2010. In August 2011, Homeboy Sandman signed with

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and released his debut project, ''Subject: Matter EP'', with the California-based record label on January 24, 2012. Homeboy Sandman released his second EP with Stones Throw Records, titled ''Chimera'' in April 2012 and on September 18, 2012 released his debut full-length LP with Stones Throw entitled ''

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''. The album featured production from

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, J57, 6th Sense, RTNC and long-time production partners 2 Hungry Bros., along with label mates

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and

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, amongst others. In 2014, Homeboy Sandman released the EP, ''White Sands'', which was produced by Paul White. Nate Patrin of ''

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'' commented that the producer and rapper had "a mutually beneficial set of styles" in a positive review. In that year, Homeboy Sandman released the album, ''

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''. In the wake of the Donald Sterling scandal, Homeboy Sandman wrote for

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an op-ed called "Black People are Cowards," which attracted more than 1.3 million views in the first seven days of its publication. In 2015, Homeboy Sandman released a collaborative EP with

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, titled ''Lice''. In 2016, he released the album, ''

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'', which included Edan-produced "Talking (Bleep)". In that year, he released a collaborative EP with Aesop Rock, titled ''Lice Two: Still Buggin. In 2019, Homeboy Sandman announced he had signed a new deal with Mello Music Group and released the new single "West Coast" produced by Aesop Rock to celebrate the new label signing. Homeboy Sandman’s first album on Mello Music Group, “

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,” was released on October 18, 2019.

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was handled entirely by Mono En Stereo. ''Dusty'' garnered positive reviews from

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writer Paul Simpson praised Mono En Stereo's soundscape of "laid-back, ambling jazz and funk grooves" for complimenting Sandman's "conversational, matter-of-fact rhymes" throughout the album, concluding that "''Dusty'' is another winning set of pointed observations from Sandman, who effortlessly unloads his thoughts without seeming like a burden on the listener." Homeboy Sandman followed up “Dusty” with his 2020 album “Don’t Feed The Monster” produced by Quelle Chris. “Don’t Feed The Monster” was listed in NPR’s top 50 albums of 2020. Homeboy Sandman would later receive a pair of awards for music videos that accompanied the album. He received a

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for “Monument” (directed by Pavel Buryak) in 2021 and later won Best Foreign Documentary at Rome Film Awards 2022 for ''Don’t Look Down'' Video (directed by Robert Mayer aka Photo Rob). At the beginning of 2021, Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman released their single “Ask Anyone,” which was featured on FIFA 21 soundtrack. Following the release Homeboy Sandman announced his EP Anjelitu which was produced entirely by Aesop Rock. Released in August 2021, Anjelitu marked Homeboy Sandman’s third studio project on Mello Music Group.

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highlighted Anjelitu as one of the best Hip-Hop projects of 2021.

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would later give praise to “Go Hard” from Anjelitu. At the end of 2021, Homeboy Sandman garnered unexpected attention after

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saluted the emcee as “One of my favorite rappers” on Instagram live. Homeboy Sandman's tenth studio album, ''There in Spirit'', was released on February 25, 2022. That same year, he released the mixtape ''I Can't Sell These'' for free on

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, due in part to an inability to clear the various samples used in the music. Music critic

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soon hailed it as "the finest album of one of hip-hop's most prolific careers", giving it an "A" grade. Homeboy Sandman revitalized his acclaimed Anjelitu EP, by releasing the Anjelitu Deluxe which included two new tracks as well as Aesop Rock’s instrumentals from the project. In 2022, Rhymesayers released all three of Homeboy Sandman and Aesop Rock’s Lice albums on digital streaming platforms. Homeboy Sandman’s Deca-produced eleventh studio album “Still Champion” was released on November 11, 2022 following the pair’s 19-stop co-headlining tour. “Still Champion” reached #24 on the iTunes Hip-Hop charts and Riff Magazine included the project in their top 20 Hip-Hop albums of 2022.

Personal life

Del Villar's father and mother were born in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico respectively. His father

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as a

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before becoming an attorney. He graduated from the

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with a

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degree and went on to accept a scholarship to attend

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before dropping out to focus on music.

Discography

Albums

* ''Nourishment (Second Helpings)'' (2007) * ''Actual Factual Pterodactyl'' (2008) * ''The Good Sun'' (2010) * ''

'' (2012) * ''

'' (2014) * ''

'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2017) * ''

'' (2019) (w/ Mono en Stereo) * ''Don't Feed the Monster'' (2020) (w/

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) * ''Anjelitu Deluxe'' (2022) (w/

) * ''Still Champion'' (2022)

EPs

* ''Nourishment'' (2007) * ''Subject: Matter'' (2012) * ''Chimera EP'' (2012) * '' Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent'' (2013) (w/ El RTNC) * ''All That I Hold Dear'' (2013) (w/ M Slago) * ''White Sands'' (2014) (w/ Paul White) * ''Homeboy Sandman Is the Sandman'' (2014) (w/

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) * ''Lice'' (2015) (w/

) * ''Lice Two: Still Buggin (2016) (w/ Aesop Rock) * ''Lice Three: Triple Fat Lice'' (2017) (w/ Aesop Rock) * ''

Humble Pi ''Humble Pi'' is a collaborative studio album by Homeboy Sandman & Edan. It was released on Stones Throw Records on October 26, 2018. Music videos Music videos were created for "Grim Seasons", "#Neverusetheinternetagain", and "The Gut". Critica ...

'' (2018) (w/ Edan) * ''Anjelitu'' (2021) (w/ Aesop Rock) * ''There in Spirit'' (2022)

Mixtapes

* ''There Is No Spoon'' (2008) (w/ DJ BabeyDrew) * ''Orphans'' (2013) (w/ DJ Jav) * ''Tour Tape'' (2015) * ''LoveLife'' (2017) * ''I Can't Sell These'' (2022)

Singles

* "King of Kings" (2010)

Guest appearances

* 2 Hungry Bros. - "Parallel Perpendicular" from ''My Crew's All Thinner'' (2009) * P. Casso - "Best in Show" from ''For Your Consideration'' (2009) * Fresh Daily - "Starter Pistol" from ''The Gorgeous Killer: In Crimes of Passion'' (2009) *

- "Thirst" (2009) * Mr. Beatz - "The Cipher" from ''Spit Therapy'' (2010) * Ciph Diggy - "Synchronized Rhymin" from ''Untitled Wave'' (2010) * Jonny October - "Brooklyn Bards" from ''The Wheelhouse'' (2010) *

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- "Fitness" from ''Undivided Attention'' (2010) * DJ Spinna - "Get On Down" from ''Sonic Smash'' (2010) * Mick Boogie x Terry Urban - "Intro" from ''Le Da Soul: 20 Years of De La Soul'' (2010) * J.J. Brown - "Up to No Good (Remix)" from ''Connect the Dots'' (2010) * Paul White - "A Weird Day" from ''Rapping with Paul White'' (2011) * Mr. SOS – "O!" from ''Cassette Verité'' (2011) * Illus - "Free" from ''For Adam'' (2011) *

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- "The Great Escape" from ''

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'' (2012) * Gensu Dean - "Ramesses" (2012) * Evitan - "Let the Horns Blow" from ''Speed of Life'' (2012) * Jaq - "Hear This" from ''Escape from Radio Prison'' (2012) * Rabbi Darkside - "Clotheslines" from ''Prospect Avenue'' (2013) * Paper Tiger - "The Sting" from ''Laptop Suntan'' (2013) * Paul White - "Find a Way" from ''Watch the Ants'' (2013) *

and

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- "Crooks in Castles" from ''

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'' (2013) * J-Live - "Hang On Tight" from ''Around the Sun'' (2014) * L'Orange - "Mind vs. Matter" from ''The Orchid Days'' (2014) * L'Orange and

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- "Ignore the Man to Your Right" from ''The Night Took Us In Like Family'' (2015) *

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- "Perspective" from ''A Lesson Unlearnt'' (2015) * Deacon the Villain - "Little Drummer Boy" from ''Peace or Power'' (2015) * Finale - "Just Due" from ''Odds & Ends'' (2015) * The Difference Machine - "Smoke" from ''The 4th Side of the Eternal Triangle'' (2016) * Dillon & Paten Locke - "Hamsammich" from ''Food Chain'' (2016) * Sammus - "Weirdo" from ''Pieces in Space'' (2016) * Gensu Dean - "Where Is the Love" from ''RAW (Refined Alkaline Water)'' (2016) * Onry Ozzborn - "Wine" from ''Duo'' (2016) *

- "Pendulum Swing" from ''

Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often ''Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often'' is a solo studio album by American rapper and producer Quelle Chris. It was released via Mello Music Group on February 10, 2017. The seventeen-track record featured guest appearances by the ...

'' (2017) *

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- "Wonderful" from '' Known Unknowns '' (2017) *

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- "HORSE" from '' Latrinalia '' (2021) * Aesop Rock & Blockhead - "All Day Breakfast" from '' Garbology '' (2021)

References

External links

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