Shamans of deformed hip-hop from Seattle are finally with us! The unique avant-rap duo powered by a third of legendary Digable Planets are coming to Šiška with their fresh last year’s album Lese Majesty, which has climbed to the Top 50 in 2014 of many world’s media references. Palaceer Lazaro, the man at the center
Shamans of deformed hip-hop from Seattle are finally with us! The unique avant-rap duo powered by a third of legendary Digable Planets are coming to Šiška with their fresh last year’s album Lese Majesty, which has climbed to the Top 50 in 2014 of many world’s media references.
Palaceer Lazaro, the man at the center of the enigmatic Seattle avant-rap project Shabazz Palaces, is otherwise known as Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, one third of the boho-rap trio Digable Planets and frontman of the alt-hip-hop group Cherrywine. (He’s also the cousin of fellow Rising artist Gonjasufi.) But he’d prefer not to talk about any of that. In fact, he’d prefer not to talk at all.
Shabazz Palaces make a clanking, discordant form of rap much colder and harsher than anything Butler ever made with Digable Planets or Cherrywine. Drums hit at irregular intervals, John Carpenter synth-smears bubble up from nowhere, and tracks follow their own internal logic, voices tripping over and interrupting each other. But as heady and experimental as these tracks may be, they still work as straight-up headknock rap music, as visceral as anything on the new Young Jeezy mixtape. It’s smart, tough music.
Herein bumps and soars Lese Majesty, the new sonic action of Shabazz Palaces. Honed and primal, chromed and primo. A unique and glorified offering into our ever-uniforming musical soundscape. Lese Majesty is a beatific war cry, born of a spell, acknowledging that sophistication and the instinctual are not at odds; Indeed an undoing of the lie of their disparate natures.
Don’t miss Shabazz Palaces’ first live performance in Slovenia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFrCb03-OI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNXxd3yYDaM
