Shabazz palaces emerged two years ago with an air of carefully cultivated mystery. Lese majesty is not a launching pad for the groups fan base increasing propaganda. Shabazz palaces forerunner foray official video youtube. Endeavors for never the last time we spoke you said you were not here. I cant think of any album that sounds like black up, or really like anything ishmael butler has created while in shabazz palaces. Black is you, black is me, black is us, black is free. Put some red on it shabazz palaces remix put some red on it. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from shabazz palaces at the discogs marketplace.
This record falls short on too many levels especially when comparing it to palaces previous records this is no black up or lese majesty. The album was produced by knife knights at gunbeat serenade studio in outplace palacelands. Black up is the debut album of experimental hip hop duo shabazz palaces. Black up was one of those albums i knew id love before id heard any of its contents. New, new new new new wave its big how it get so bright the glitter deep made me rich my grand sparklers did not speak i. A treatease dedicated to the avian airess from north east nubis questions, 1 answer 2. You could find precedents for this stuff the amorphous wanderings of clouddead.
If bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in seattle instead of the atlas. Black up blijft me toch terugtrekken, ik kan het gewoonweg niet niet luisteren. Stream tracks and playlists from shabazz palaces on your desktop or mobile device. Shabazz palaces the don of diamond dreams spotlights. Black up is a short film that portrays a fever dream induced by the music of shabazz palaces. Shabazz palaces is masterminded by the mediashy palaceer lazaro, more commonly known as ishmael butterfly butler of 90. From the shabazz palaces 062811 release, black up itunes amazon. It was released on june 28th 2011 via sub pop records. Shabazz palaces albums always have layers to them and often require a little dissection. Shabazz palaces shirt shabazz palaces the don of diamond dreams black tshirt sub pop buy now. Ish butler now, if you talking bout it, its a show but if you move about it, then its a go now, if you talking bout it, its a show but if you move about it, then. Shabazz palaces an echo from the hosts that profess.
Daisuke duff this album will never go tired for me, so much to pick up on and unfold. Black up is the debut studio album by american hip hop duo shabazz palaces. Concerning the difference between the black revolution and the negro revolution well, im black the dominant shade, im an upgrade. Black is free black is you, black is me, black is us, black is free black is you black is you, black. The shabazz palaces and of light eps featured an mc going by the name. New, new new new new wave its big how it get so bright the glitter deep made me rich my grand sparklers did not speak i got more bank tha. It was released on june 28, 2011 in the united states on sub pop. Shabazz palaces samples, covers and remixes whosampled. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. Black up is the debut studio album by shabazz palaces, the duo consisting of palaceer lazaro formerly butterfly of digable planets and multiinstrumentalist tendai baba maraire. Shabazz palaces black up full album stream youtube. Shabazz palaces fast learner official video youtube. To be sure, his laidblack flow channels a vibe similar to the whocares attitude of those on the opposite side of the leftfield hiphop divide, but dont let that fool you.
By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our cookie policy. Palaceer lazaro formerly butterfly of jazz rap group digable planets and multiinstrumentalist tendai baba maraire, son of mbira master dumisani maraire. Black up, an album by shabazz palaces on spotify we and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. After 16 years of relative silence he did some guest spots and fronted a failed funkrap outfit, butler has accomplished the nighimpossible, successfully metamorphosing into the shadowy shabazz palaces, and with black up, creating a potential successor to cannibal oxs 2001 altrap masterpiece, the cold vein.
Black up is the best hip hop album of the 2010s yes, i know mbdtf. If you adhere to the corporeal limitations of space and chronology, its been roughly a decade since shabazz palaces first shook the ramparts with their debut stylistic revolution, black up which pitchfork named as one of the best of the 2010s, hailing it as an album of impossible vision. Like every shabazz palaces record that came before itto say nothing of ishmael butlers work with 319, knife knights, cherrywine, woke, and, famously, digable planets the don of diamond dreams is a brilliant, buoyant work of provocation and invocation from the rapperwriterproducer. Discover all shabazz palacess music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download.
Black up explicit by shabazz palaces on amazon music. If bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in seattle instead of the atlas mountains, this would be their album. Mimicking gods i was known on the throne with your own light of home fully charged from the stars on life through the cars i unwound on the moon on a chopless nightless. Black up is the new sonic move from shabazz palaces. Unparalleled by any musical act, shabazz palaces constantly pushes the limits of funk, hiphop, jazz, and world music, straying away from typical song structures in favor of more creative endeavors. Shabazz palaces samples, covers and remixes on whosampled. Shabazz palaces has always seemed to negotiate between the distant past and the distant future, as on 2017s 30 clip extension and its temporal channelsurfing between 1968, 1974, 2017. Corny niggas they comin for me yellin at me runnin at me mink coats pink throats. Black up is a wild ride, but butlers songwriting is not haphazard. It was recorded and produced by shabazz palaces at at protect and exalt labs, a black space in seattle, washington. Song an echo from the hosts that profess infinitum.
Black up by shabazz palaces, released 28 june 2011 1. It is a series of astral suites, recorded happenings, shared. Their newest album, the don of diamond dreams, is forthcoming april 17, 2020. The film features songs from shabazz palaces album black up on sub pop records, as well as various pieces of unreleased material.
Fast learner from the shabazz palaces album the don of diamond dreams release date. In most cases, the album adds nothing new and exciting to the evolution of shabazz palaces. With black up, the group has taken the ideas presented on those releases further, coming. Shabazz palaces black up lyrics and tracklist genius. Shabazz palaces black up official album short film. Yeah yous lowend bass and pattering rhythm are set in a claustrophobic digital loop, morphing raps jazz. Shabazz palaces black up official album short film duration. With black up, the group has taken the ideas presented on those releases further, coming up with a relatively short yet. Listen to shabazz palaces soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create seattle.
The production on many of the tracks sounds rushed and boring. Black up was the new sonic move in 2011 from shabazz palaces. Up in the airs that everything it takes we got an entrance baby you know how we bump no if, ands, or maybes all sparkles from the jump up and down, in and out, round and round we crazy just blastit yea yea yea, we racin towards freedom. In this case, the don of diamond dreams refers to butler himself. A few bars in, though, the arrival of an unexpected kalimba line really knocks you sideways.
The two promising debut eps shabazz palaces first released in 2009, shabazz palaces and of light, introduced what i felt to be a very interesting and unique take on experimental hip hop. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. This album is pretty much amazing, unlike anything you have ever heard before. Stream black up explicit by shabazz palaces and tens of millions of other. He asked me how you float all sharp and always have a fresh one and seem to know the answer to the most proverbial questions. Holy, wise, abstract, and contagious, don is intergalactic hiphop that burrows as deep down as. Two eps appeared, identified only by the arabic patches. Shabazz palaces, then, are hardly the hiphop nirvana and black up is no nevermind. Licensed to youtube by merlin sub pop records on behalf of sub pop.
Shabazz palaces remain so far ahead of their time, somewhere on this terrestrial slab of rock called earth, there are music fans still trying to parse the groups neardecadeold sub pop debut black up, reaching to find meaning in its parables and psalms, scrolling the cursor left to break down the breakdowns. Active since 2009, they have released four studio albums on sub pop. Corny niggas, they comin for me yelling at me, running at me mink coats, pink throats weak quotes, low hopes antidope, filthy. Shabazz palaces is an american hip hop duo from seattle composed of ishmael butler a. Remixes battles white electric shabazz palaces remix dross glop.