Going back to his days as a member of the Grammy-winning Digable Planets. Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler has had reputation for being exceedingly different; after all, Digable Planets were one of the more unique and forward-thinking acts of […]
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Shabazz Palaces continues Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler’s (of Digable Planets) reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description or categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was psychedelic, kaleidoscopic and […]
Formed by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, once of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces manages to continue Butler’s reputation for creating a brand of hip hop that’s so unique that it uncompromisingly defies easy description or categorization. In fact, on Black Up, […]
Formed by Ishmael “Butterly” Butler, of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces continues Butler’s reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description of categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was […]
Over the last ten or fifteen years or so, there’s been a trend within underground hip-hop to get increasingly psychedelic and outright weird – think of MF Doom, Kool Keith, Shabazz Palaces and others. The […]