From this lair, Butler and Tendai Maraire have beamed out their own singular vision of rap to the world. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Avant garde, cerebral and at times utterly baffling … Shabazz Palaces in Seattle. We don’t feel like we’re different from them: we’ve just got a different style.”For Butler, Shabazz Palaces is a second act. Beyond the technophobia, there are warnings in Shabazz Palaces’ new works about the subtle (and not so subtle) messages Donald Trump is delivering to any Americans who don’t fit into the president’s narrow world view. Then, when they see that other people don’t really accept that any more, they need to whip them into shape.”So for all the futuristic, interplanetary obsessions, is Shabazz Palaces’ music actually rooted right here on planet Earth?

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2017 06:00 UTC