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Shabazz Palaces - Forerunner Foray

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Best Albums Of 2023 41-50

Oneohtrix Point Never- Again

Lil Yachty- Let's Start Here

Nas- Magic 3

Anohini & The Johnsons- My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Water From Your Eyes- Everyone's Crushed

Marnie Stern- The Comeback Kid

Open Mike Eagle- Another Marvel Of Ghetto Engineering

Shabazz Palaces-Robed In Rareness

Kali Uchis- Red Moon In Venus

SPELLING & The Mystery School- SPELLING & The Mystery School

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SHABAZZ PALACES : Ishmael Butler ) DIGABLE PLANETS “ TRUGOY “ ( DAVE JOLICOER ) TRIBUTE #DELASOUL #PLUG2 #RESTINPEACE

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Shabazz Palaces: Take Me To Your Leader Feat. Lavarr The Starr Official Video

Shabazz Palaces shared the video for "Take Me To Your Leader," featuring Lavarr the Starr. Palaceer Lazaro sits in his spaceship, waiting for aliens to reveal their ruler. The leader never arrives, but Lazaro is clear about the existence of other life forms and galaxies. "Take Me To Your Leader" is from Exotic Birds of Prey, out now. 

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Music Is My Mistress (2017), directed by Kahlil Joseph and featuring Tracee Ellis Ross, Kelsy Lu and Ishmael Butler

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Omega Radio for February 11, 2017; #132.

Kool A.D. f. Loren Hell & Amaze 88 “Youth Speaks”

Unified Highway f. The Grouch & Zion I “Same Thing Coming”

Ho99o9 “Day Of Vengeance”

Elucid “House Keys”

Benny B. Blonco “You Can Make A Change”

Chynna Rogers “Flatline”

Range, The “Five Four”

Kaiydo “Jumpin’”

Drew Howard “You’re Not My Mans”

Benny B. Blonco “Globetrotters”

Goon Des Garcons “Back On The RD”

Time “World War Me”

Ephalent “Letter To A Hostage”

Elucid “Slumped”

Benny B. Bionco “Pray”

Show Me The Body “Aspirin”

SZA f. Kendrick Lamar “Babylon”

Bobby Raps & Corbin “Frozen Tundra”

Linafornia “Hi Shrimp”

Shabazz Palaces “The Mystery Of Lonnie The Don”

Elucid “Cap Weave”

Token “Self-Taught”

SpaceGhostPurrp “Movin’ Weight”

Linafornia “Brownies”

Denzel Curry “Ultimate”

Miss Red “No Guns”

Techno Animal “Dead Man’s Curse”

Lampgod “Papermate”

LNDN DRGS “Dope Sick”

Noname Gypsy “Yesterday”

Deluxe street sounds and beats.

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353: Digable Planets // Blowout Comb

Blowout Comb Digable Planet 1994, Capitol

Blowout Comb is the best rap album ever made, and I’ve listened to it hundreds of times, but I’d be lying if I told you I knew the name of every track as it comes on. It’s not that the tracks are same-y, so much as that the record has such an endless, unified groove. No matter how great an individual song is, no matter how much I’d like to hear it again immediately, I never want to disrupt the record’s flow—and besides, there are no skips on Blowout Comb. How do I get at the particular magic at work here? It’s something like this: most everything is so laid back, from the mix tucking the three emcees’ vocals under the frequently analog bass to the way its classic soul and jazz samples are used for texture rather than hooks, that you could loop almost any single track for an hour without it becoming grating. It’s not an album of standout quotables or an iconic persona or killer hooks—it’s one that makes life feel alright, beautiful, and connected to an ancient cool.

Which isn’t to say that it doesn’t knock: the production on “Dog It,” “Jettin’,” “Agent 7,” “Blowing Down” and “9th Wonder” kicks like a rhino’s subwoofer heartbeat, and even the chillest parts feel like floating in a funky aquarium. But the song that has always stood out to me is “Black Ego,” a blissed out seven-minute dream boldly placed at track two. Built on a fluttering sample from jazz guitarist Grant Green’s “Luanna’s Theme” and a Meters’ breakbeat, producers Ish Butler and Dave Darlington layer on live bass, vibraphone, and whispered backing vocals that match the exact hiss of the cymbal hits. The seams between the sampled and live instrumentation disappear, creating a track that feels like it is improvising right alongside the emcees, riding out with a tasty two-minute long jazz guitar solo. Even at seven-minutes, I’d happily play it over—but then the enticing sax loop that opens “Dog It” hits, and Blowout Comb keeps the party rolling on to the next one.

Way back on episode #13 of this series, I covered Black Up, Ish’s 2011 comeback record as Shabazz Palaces. A strange, futuristic album that delves so deeply into glitchy electronic production that it often barely scans as a rap album at all, Black Up is nonetheless a continuation of Blowout Comb’s vision of Black pride and the historical continuum of African American music. If Blowout Comb drew that history into one time-spanning Brooklyn block party, Black Up feels a bit like that party being recalled by a cyborg from an unimaginably advanced Afrofuturist timeline. Between the two, Ish Butler created two of the freshest and most original rap records ever made. He (and his colleagues in both Digable Planets and Shabazz) deserve more mention in any conversation about hip-hop’s all-time greatest visionaries.

353/365

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Shabazz Palaces’ Exotic Birds Of Prey

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2020

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Shabazz Palaces - Take Me To Your Leader (feat. Lavarr the Starr) - from Exotic Birds Of Prey

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find the diamonds underneath the subtlest inflections

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Shabazz Palaces - Myths Of The Occult (feat. Japreme Magnetic) 

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Shabazz Palaces Drop Video For Exotic BOP feat. Purple Tape Nate

Shabazz Palaces has revealed a video for "Exotic BOP" featuring  Purple Tape Nate the album's title track. Ishmael Butler stands tall like a king with a bird resting on his hand. The dreamy echo-heavy soundscape matches the visual and fits Shabazz Palace's penchant for creating cinematic moments instead of formulaic music videos. Butler's constant envelope-pushing bubbles up into a collage of interstellar trap music and techno. Exotic Birds Of Prey is available on CD, Vinyl, and streaming.  The rap legend is touring the United States this summer with his other group Digable Planets.