Google Artist of the Week: Shabazz Palaces
Each week, Magnifier selects an Antenna Google Artist of the Week. These are our favorite artists, and are handpicked by our team of music experts. All the music on Magnifier can be added to your Music Beta library for free.
It’s a wonder that Shabazz Palaces exist at all. The group led by Palaceer Lazaro – formerly known as Ishmael Butler of Digable Planets – stand in defiance to hip-hop’s ongoing fascination with acquiring money and fame at all costs. Their music is a “ghetto sound sprawl,” an exotic blend of dread bass, flutes and thumb pianos, New Age poetry and experimental hip-hop. However, Lazaro’s lyrics are strikingly direct, as he advocates the virtues of radical progressivism and non-conformity.
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