Shabazz Palaces – Exotic Birds of Prey (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:01 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap
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Shabazz Palaces release two new mini-albums, Robed in Rareness and Exotic Birds of Prey. Shabazz Palaces is masterminded by Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets), whose relentless drive to reimagine hip-hop – even as he enjoys his fifth decade on Earth – remains undiminished. Exotic Birds of Prey furthers the modus operandi of Robed in Rareness: a respectful eye on the past, an embrace of an ever-evolving present, with its feet firmly planted in the future. Where Robed warped sounds like shoegaze and ambient music into the Shabazz Palaces multiverse, Exotic cross-pollinates these elements with twisted electro and funk vibes.
Read moreShabazz Palaces – Robed in Rareness (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:03 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Hip-Hop
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Shabazz Palaces is masterminded by vocalist and producer Ishmael Butler, whose unstinting drive to reimagine hip-hop – even as he enters his fifth decade on Earth – remains undimmed. With Robed In Rareness, there’s a respectful eye on the past, an embrace of an ever-evolving present, and its feet are firmly planted in the future. It features collaborations with the likes of Seattle’s Royce The Choice and Porter Ray, Colorado Springs’ O Finess, Bronx’s Geechi Suede (of Camp Lo), and Butler’s son, the incomparable Lil Tracy.
Read moreShabazz Palaces – Quazarz Vs. The Jealous Machines (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:15 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: Rap, Hip-Hop
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Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines is one of two new albums by interstellar hip-hop enigma Shabazz Palaces, aka Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire. The result is a thrilling excursion, possessing an otherworldly ambience and substance you’ll spend months decoding, every spin yielding something new.
Read moreShabazz Palaces – Black Up (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:06 minutes | 389 MB | Genre: Rap, Hip-Hop
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Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.
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