Black Up (Explicit)

Shabazz Palaces

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Release Date:

2011-11-23

Record Label:

Sub Pop Records

7digital What we said: With Black Up, legendary rock label Sub-Pop have not only lost their hip hop virginity, metaphorically-speaking, they've gone tantric, releasing one of the most innovative rap offerings so far this year. It’s all the work of Shabazz Palaces, a Seattle-based trio fronted by Ishmael “Butter” Butler, previously of Cherrywine and the Grammy-winning jazz-rap outfit Digable Planets. There are nods to Butter’s musical past in tracks like the Flying Lotus-esque ‘Yeah You’ – which splices jazz percussion and brass with glitch-laden R&B – but mostly the outfit favour beds of murky electronics, brutal bass lines and claustrophobic, distorted lyrical flows. Highly impressive.

Track Number	Track Title	Track Length
1	free press and curl (Explicit)	4:16
2	An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum (Explicit)	3:15
3	Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt) (Explicit)	4:48
4	A treatease dedicated to The Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 questions, 1 answer) (Explicit)	2:46
5	Youlogy (Explicit)	3:59
6	Endeavors for Never (The last time we spoke you said you were not here.  I saw you though.)	2:51
7	Recollections of the wraith (Explicit)	3:35
8	The King's new clothes were made by his own hands	2:07
9	yeah you (Explicit)	3:21
10	Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) (Explicit)	5:10

Duration:: 36:08

℗ 2011 Sub Pop Records

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