The concluding song on Deltron 3030, the sci-fi futuristic collaboration between mastermind Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lovage), Oakland rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien (Gorillaz, Hieroglyphics), and turntablist Kid Koala. This is the last song on the record with just a closing vocal track after it.

Deltron 3030 is a rap opera concept album set in a dystopian year 3030 where hip hop and free thought are outlawed. Del raps in his alter ego as Deltron Zero, a former cybermech soldier reclaiming the legacy of hip-hop through a series of intergalactic rap battles.

Seriously.

The overall track is Del’s plea to Oaklanders to remember their roots. Oakland is a city that is reminiscent of 3030’s own bleak landscape, rocked by oppression and violence. But it’s actually got a history of black intellectualism.

Memory Loss pulls its sick hook from Johnny Olivo’s Dame Una Sola Noche Para Amarte. The horns and drum beat are pulled from Piero Umiliani’s instrumental Piazza Di Siena.

The recurring chorus “people got the memory loss” is sampled from Del himself, in his 1990s track “Catch a Bad One”.