Video: Shabazz Palaces – “Shapes And Movements 1”

Art house hip hop act Shabazz Palaces teamed up with Christian J Petersen for this video set to the music of “Barksdale Corners,” a song made specifically for the art magazine I Want You. The video, now titled “Shapes and Movements 1,” will be included in an exhibit called Bold Expressions: African American Quilts from the Collection of Corrine Riley at Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington.

Download the track here.

Video: Shabazz Palaces - "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)"

Experimental hip hop act Shabazz Palaces  dropped the latest video from their excellent 2011 LP Black Up. The airy, sunshine and flower-filled clip for' "Are You... Can You...Were You? (Felt)" was directed by Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and saw Futsum Tesgai acting as director of photography, enjoy below…

Listen: SBTRKT ft. Shabazz Palaces & Little Dragon – “Wildfire" (Drumma Boy Remix)

An unofficial collaboration from SBTRKT and Shabazz Palaces in the form of this Drumma Boy remix of underground smash hit “Wildfire” by SBTRKT. There have been some odd combinations as of late but this is probably one of the strangest with Shabazz Palaces providing some rhymes over Little Dragon’s vocal and key elements from SBTRKT’s original composition, enjoy below….

Shabazz Palaces - "An Echo From the Hosts That Profess Infinitum"

Shabazz Palaces are a experimental hip hop act formed by Butterfly, formally of Digable Planets, Their new lp"Black Up" is out tomorrow June 28th on Sub Pop and is well worth checking out.

The production on this LP is sick and is more akin to something on Anticon then classic Blue Note infused Digable Planets.

"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." via Sub pop's bio.

Enjoy one of the many choice cuts from the lp below entitled "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum"

Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum by subpop