Shabazz Palaces: A.G.

 Shabazz Palaces has been one of my favorites for a minute now. Former Digable Planets MC Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler has been reincarnated as Palaceer Lazaro. Apparently age made him weird, bitter, and totally gangster, and he released two amazing albums in 2009 year. The new album Black Up is out on June 28 and you can stream the whole thing at NPR. Here are a couple of my favorites of theirs. Both are window rattlers. Get excited.

The first is from their self-titled. Bangs so fucking hard. "all this fresh-ass me and you that we bring 'em"
Shabazz Palaces--blastit at the homie rayzer’s charm lake plateau bbq july at outpalace pk mp3

This is a track from Black Up which adds gorgeous female vocals to the mix. The whole album is excellent and seems to up the abstraction and rhythmic complexity. My brain is still wading in it. So nice.
Shabazz Palaces--Recollections of the Wraith mp3