shabazz palaces

Black Up remains one of our favorite albums of the last decade, so it goes without saying that we're pretty psyched about this: riZe vadZimu riZe, the triumphant debut LP from Shabazz Palaces member Tendai Maraire, aka Chimurenga Renaissance, is out today on Brick Lane Records, and this is the beautiful complementary visual accompaniment for the album, filmed in Zimbabwe...

im feelin all emo about this.. — FLYLO (@flyinglotus) December 10, 2013 @flyinglotus you're crashing mediafire 4 me you butt!! — ryan (@ryanhemsworth) December 10, 2013 Flying Lotus just dropped a folder of unreleased "ideas+drafts+loops" on his twitter, featuring collabs with Shabazz Palaces, Earl, and more. Download it fo...

from the looking comes the seeing. my big cousin ricky used to blast this out the corvette dippin up germantown ave in philly rocking a t-shirt that read "sworn to fun loyal to none" -- Ish

C'mon man what is this?! a most brilliantest hardest composition ever. The Q'boro killers came classic. -- Ish

i had a cassette player that would flip over at the end to play the other side. daily op stayed endlessly flipping. -- Ish

saw omar perform at montreaux jazz festival during reachin' tours. he got on stage at 5am and murdered it. in brixton last year in a jamaican record store saw a flyer for him with a valentines day performance i know that was the move. Omar the Great -- Ish

Charles mingus is a favorite of my dad Big Reg. he used to talk about and listen to this cat often. he would talk about this movie all the time, he love when, in a later scene mingus bust the shotty through his ceiling. -- Ish

this album i was submerged in, Fully. -- Ish

To celebrate the vinyl reissue of Digable Planets' incendiary, ahead-of-its-time classic Blowout Comb, we're extremely honored to hand over the keys to one of our favorite artists of all time, DPs (and now Shabazz Palaces) visionary Ishmael Butler...