Shabazz Palaces - Black Up [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Full Album stream of Shabazz Palaces' 06/28/11 release, Black Up
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it's a feeling.
7 years later melon...what do you think of Shabazz now?!?! Times have changed my bald friend.
🐜🐜🐜🐜
lol, u actually exist.
hi anthony
@@vibrynth1472 hello
thank u for your service, and so long! thanks for all the fish!
I would not go that far, there are more hip hop artists doing experimental and complex things than SP, but this album is one of the best.
people will hate me but with the right mixing this could go far js
I need this albummm!
Hello Babe City Records!
Why is the mix so quiet?!
does anyone know any other artists who produce in a similar style to shabazz palaces? (arca is the only one who comes to mind...)
I'd check out Flying Lotus
Nathan Kozel Fly Lo is the epitome of abstract electronic jazz hip hop. I'm jealous of the people who get to transition from shabazz to flylo haha
"generic statement about how all hip-hop played on the radio is terrible and how my taste is above it all"
Good
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19
5. "Youlogy" 15:04
6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03
7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30
9. "Yeah You" 27:37
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
One of the best rap albums of this century
MY GOD... HOW CAN MUSIC SOUND SO NEW, DIFFERENT AND GOOD AT THE SAME TIME?THANK YOU SUB POP. THANK YOU SHABAZZ PALACES!
Welcome to alternative hip hop.
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19
5. "Youlogy" 15:04
6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03
7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30
9. "Yeah You" 27:37
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
many thanks
Lucas Mancini I
00:00 "Free Press and Curl"
4:15 "An Echo from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum"
7:30 "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)"
12:18 "A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)"
15:04 "Youlogy"
19:03 "Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)"
21:54 "Recollections of the Wraith"
25:30 "The King's New Clothes Were Made by His Own Hands"
27:37 "Yeah You"
30:58 "Swerve... The Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)"
thanks
This helps immensely!
👍🖤
Flying Lotus keeps talking about these guys, for good reason it seems.
Thats Because They are the Highest Echelon
I was 18 in northern Finland, I had this album on repeat one of the coldest winters I remember. The poetry of this album was like a friend, warming up the room when I was feeling the most isolated.
gangsta rap in outer space
+Jeff Penn like Mos Def and Brian Eno fingerbanging each other inside of a video game.
+Jeff Penn I love it though. You have to be zooted until you reach a point where the music gets you high.
that would be cannibal ox
This sounds like Fela Kuti resurrected in 3047. Kudos to Shabazz Palaces for making such a distinct sound.
When Maxwell sang "Shouldn't I realize / that you're the highest of the high ..." He was referring to Shabazz Palaces
Because it don't get no iller
one of the greatest alltime hip hop albuns
top ten easily
2017 and this album is still like fresh air. Unique even for the underground scene. This reminds me of when Camp Lo dropped Uptown Saturday Night. Very different, but still relevant for the time. Instant classics. Just my opinion.
Acidic R Us was. that's my old job.
Album meets my criteria for good music in any genre: you can fight, fuck, dance or cry to it. Criteria for true hip hop: lyrics resonate if u hear them in headphones, on streetcurb in a cypher, in a PACKED dingy club or in an arena.
There's a special place in Hell for those who don't put tracklists in the descriptions.
😂😂😂😂😂
+Austin Coates Get back in the robot Shinji
And there's a special place in heaven for those who put tracklists in the comments.
bro they put the music up for free what's the problem
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Turning onto these guys on the heels of listening to a lot of Flying Lotus,.a bit of fresh air from a genre that's fatigued to say the less, can't help to hear the trip-hop influence in the vain of say Massive Attack's Mezzanine. That Hip/hop-Rock Mash up was pretty hot in the early/mid nineties, but these elements def. seem to flirt w/ a sinister goth/rock element. Good Stuff!!!!
No doubt, modern take on Pharcyde era. been waiting for it to get back to this.
"clear some space out so we can space out"
"OOOOOooooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOooo"
It's like half way between Madvillian and DG. SWEET!
Also Flylo quite a lot.
Nah this just shabazz palaces. they dont rep any other styles, this their style.
So weird how Butterfly still sounds the same after all these years.
Music that makes use of digital errata, the glitch kit approach, is nothing new, nor is it a Bronze Age set of figurines that can be interposed in the present to confuse archaeologists, but occasionally it is done with such poise and distinction (mastery I reserve for a future impossibility), as to be suitable for re-entry into society. Shabazz Palaces is back up for parole with Black Up, a record assembled from spare parts and rare flashes of traditional instrumentation. Manipulated hits of piano and kalimba give the impression of fruit trees under a streetlight, or a latter-day cult of technophobes glimpsed through subway grating. From below, looking up, a precise stampede of clicking heels swept along by a current of radio waves, the world as a reliable algorithm. It is not as reliable as one thought.
I prefer analog synthesizers. The golden age of innocent synthesis was far too brief. The ear never adjusts for want of an… analogue in nature… and so it is always refreshing to encounter, for instance, Laurie Spiegel’s Buchla drones, refreshing for ears addled by too many interruptions. A little latency would do us good.
Black Up’s construction borrows from video games, with their seriality and trapdoor-depths. One gets the impression that Ishmael Butler, the mind behind the Seattle-based hip hop group, is well-versed in the game’s construction as its designer, but gets his kicks scaring his guests as he deigns to show them around, allowing them to walk through cobwebs and up stairs that lead nowhere or back where one started. Easter eggs are planted throughout. Our guide is a bitter man, an angst-filled rapper; having found a new form he is yet in search of new content. “It’s a feeling. It’s a feeling.” Feelings are bent to the atmosphere here, brooding and sensuous. Occasionally they are permitted to flourish. Black Up never hints at the precocious ancestor worship of Butler’s memorable first project, Digable Planets. He has come a long way. There is more ambivalence here. Other planets to dig, another way of perceiving and enjoying life, its inexhaustible funk, or in Leonard Cohen’s words, of getting “a new trip off the old wine.” Shabazz Palaces. The name conjures elaborate chambers, where, say, the embittered members of a black separatist tribe have holed up for many years. There, in that lonely tower, our M.C. relates his afterhours asides. There is an alien intelligence haunting these tracks. It is hazy music, not ever quite revealing an actual place and time. It is future-looking, though it is constructed to the exact specifications of the New Reality, which is as dismal as that phrase suggests. In other words, it evades as it affirms the impossibility of escape from this shattered world. No rapper has ever traveled this far from earth’s orbit in search of a darker, heavier, blacker planet while remaining, however tenuously, tethered to the ground. “Clear some space out / So we can space out.” It is almost avante garde music, certainly farther out than any other hip hop group, and its concerns almost of this earth, or all too human.
Dan Shurley Jesus Christ. Do you really type that? If so, then fucking props because this made my head explode.
Dan Shurley this comments section is having an amazing dialogue
Damn bro. Mind = Explosion
This is so pretentious omg
No. Title Length
1. "Free Press And Curl" 4:16
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 3:15
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 4:48
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 2:46
5. "Youlogy" 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" 3:36
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 2:07
9. "Yeah You" 3:21
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 5:10
Doing God's work, son.
1. 0:00 - Free Press And Curl
2. 4:15 - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum
3. 7:30 - Are You... Can You... Were You?
4. 12:18 - A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis
5. 15:02 - Youlogy
6. 17:53 - Endeavors For Never
7. 21:54 - Recollections Of The Wraith
8. 25:30 - The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands
9. 27:37 - Yeah You
10. 30:58 - Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
The whole album has jazzy undertones. Its not so much put out on center stage, its more of an influence
I EVEN LOVE THE OUTRO! "BLACK IS FREE!"
I really LOVE this album from start to finish. Amazing display of talent and originality.
This album will go down in history. For it's lyricism, production, innovation, novelty for its time and it's ultimate message. This is an important piece of art.
Are you...Can you..Were you (felt) has to be one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time
At first I was like how do people like this? Then it was just like madvillany I just started love it and now this is one of my all time favorite albums.
I wish someone told me about this album years...i had to move to Seattle, to find out about this...dope album
Damn this whole record has such a bleak, hollow sound when you listen on headphones.
I love it.
It's the label putting out his music for free on youtube. Subpop is one of the few companies trying to adapt in the music industry and I commend them for that. They know that giving people a decent taste of the full album will encourage at least a few people to buy it.
Not that anyone cares,but when I was 13 I was obsessed with Digable Planets when they came out. Theirs was the first concert ever that I went to by myself with my friends in 1993. Blowout Comb...same thing. Listened to that for YEARS. I am so glad that Butterfly/Ishmael Butler can still have that effect on me literally 20 years later. It's the BEST hip hop I've heard in years. Puts me in a whole other mind space like Digable did. I hope Ish (and his partner Tendai Maraire) make music forever.
That’s dope 93 til infinity…Digable one of the best ever! 93 Tribe Midnight Marauders, Both Digables, And Del Future Developement still in the rotation damn near 30 years later✌️
@@davidmorales55We share the exact same tastes. Have you heard "Edan - Beauty and the Beat"?
you're right they both the jazzy / conscious / awesome side of hip hop. but it would be wrong for some one to say that one is way better than the other...
tendai left shabazz palaces in 2020. still tho, many great tracks to play. digables were incredible too 💜
NO BLING SHIT... JUST PURE SHIT. THAT'S WHAT SEPARATES MEDIOCRITY FROM GREATNESS. GOOD MUSIC JUST MAKES US FEEL ALIVE AGAIN. NOTHING ELSE CAN TOP THAT FEELING. PEACE!
You think I'm selfish, exist only to wish on stars
cool now camels make better music than me....lmbo
The level of production is Godly..oh lawd
I can't get enough of this album. It's been 2 years that first heard of Shabazz and I haven't gotten tired yet. It made me hopeful that good music exists.
Rebirth of Slick!
Sounds like experimental dark industrial stuff from the mid 80s like GREATER THAN ONE's All The Masters Licked Me/London, or COIL or something... but hiphop treated. Amazing track.
Definitely a thread connects the musics... That GTO track was always out of water in the industrial world! Coil simply ate up every sound they ever heard and filtered it thru themselves. They were always interested in finding new sounds...
Troy Palmer Im astounded anyone who listened to that listens to this... pretty wide span required ;) I think the voice treatment is similar in a few GTO tracks, and the minimalist beat here is similar to the cut down sound of GTO before they went dance.
God, Hermes Trismegisto, Buda, Da Vinci, Einstein, Steve Jobs, Larry Page & Shabazz Palaces
please not steve jobs..greed personified
Alan Fair Stop spreading this popular opinion type hate. The man was an innovator and a total nutcase who failed many times in order to make many of the most user friendly devices that we now have. How ignorant are you that you lump him in with Wall street?
I totally agree with you. But why the hate haha steve jobs rocks and I'm just bothered by this popular idea that people who make great things but profit are evil. And to your point it seams like he was digressing with the names, like God might be above the others haha
Steve Pisano steve jobs and bill gates can and will burn in hell
ok dude.
something about a certain kind of attitude connect this with kode9 & spaceape album
I'm just getting hip to this,true innovation right here
This is Ultra-Mega God-Level Hip Hop, only a handful of people will ever create something so rich, complex and perfect through any medium of art.
did anyone else notice the silk road logo in the thumbnail
no
been sleeping on these dudes. kinda heard of 'em, buuuutt... this shit kills. my goodness. badassery.
No this belongs to the knew generation of hip-hop, nothing that has to do with real hip hop such as stones throw producers and the likes of a tribe called quest and gang starr
HRVizion def jux, Griselda, statik selektah, alchemist...etc etc
Whenever I start listening to this album, it feels like my brain is being sonically massaged. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it's the only way I can describe it.
Str8 sick!!! FUCK THE CRITICS! If it it doesnt resonate wit u then stop listenin plz...
@Isaiah: that plus a Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" vibe. Where the entire range of sound is explored for the chosen instruments AND the album is put together as an entire composition NOT just a playlist.
Right now I'm getting into rap and hop hop music and this is one of the albums someone recommended to me and I love it.
Free Press And Curl goes so fucking hard oml
These guys are like the hip hop Ween, I like this.
whoops upside my head whoops upside my head, soft runnings of liquid sounds, sonic syrup and linguistic licence, now we are here maybe we could find the shortest pathway to arrive
Very original sound coming from Shabazz. Mix of the drum machine, with reversed whale samples, and congo drums, just wow. So many breaks in here too, definetlly a record for the Djs. Originality and innovation is the golden rule of this album and Hip-Hop in general. If you're looking for punchlines and the classic "verse chorus verse" format this album isn't for you. IT'S A FEELING
Wow so 90's trip hop is back again. I knew it was only time.
not only do i like how this album takes a very hard criticism of rap and african american culture from the outside in, but I love how this album is full of a wide range of emotions that are normally absent from hip hop albums. Like all great art, it takes time to appreciate it for its full value though, give it time.
This album is true hip hop. So much energy in it. You have to listen this several times, before you understand it. This album is way ahead of it's time. Love the lyrics as well.
One of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. Defined my taste as a youngin.
I FUX WITH THIS WHOLE CREATIVE WORK!!!!!!
Damn I love this album ... 2011 was such a good music year
The track that starts at 4:15 is very similar to Birds by Death Grips... hmm... interesting.
Me and the wife were just saying this yesterday. Very Death Grippy.
birds came out a little over 2 years after this song. i realy dont understand all the people talking about the death grips comparison. i dont feel like shabazz is at all agressive, meanwhile deathgrips is angry as fuck.
shroomdemon666
I wasnt speaking as if they stole this from DG, I am saying that they drew inspiration from this song.
shroomdemon666 Well, it's prolly happening for some reason. Right? Or else it wouldn't be happening all over the place.
In my opinion, the two artists offer similar refuge for a particular brand of hip-hop fan. The kind who craves a challenge. It is not exclusive to this type of fan, but DG and SP are the only two hip-hop artists I have newly embraced, in 10 years.
Who knows why? It''s a feeling...it's a feeling...it's a feeling...it's a feeling.
ILLUMINATI
not bad at all. love to see butterfly is still active
love this album, it reminds me a little of plastic beach by the gorillaz c:
This shit is way too advanced
this album fucking ruled when it came out. it still does, but it used to too
I wish I hadn't read these comments. I find the music interesting, and I could probably get into it with some time and familiarity, but ... and don't take this the wrong way ... are all their listeners posers? I mean, it seems like their audience is made up of uber-pretentious, ex-suburban white people, all trying to out-hip one another. On one hand, well, yeah, it's Seattle, what do you expect? Seattle's average demographic is uber-pretentious, ex-suburban white people trying to out-hip one another. But, damn, they really kick the insincere into high gear when it comes to weird hip-hop stuff. I'm sure this makes me shallow, and hey, I admit it, but I'd like this band way more if it weren't for its fans. I'm sure this will upset some people, and I'm sure I'll get a load of snark in return (snark = Caucasion Seattle's favorite pasttime), but I just can't help it. It's how I feel.
+Freke Papa Ying Yang okay
+Freke Papa Ying Yang Who cares about the other listeners?
Freke Papa Ying Yang It sounds like the problem is more you and not them.
This comment sounds more pretentious than anything else I see in the comments. Maybe you should enjoy the art without looking at the fanbase?
Don't listen to these people, you're on to something. Being realistic doesn't mean you have problems. I think most people would rather themselves be the only person that likes a special artist, especially if they can definitely understand them. People above me, you could just say, "Dude don't worry about it, you're gonna give yourself paranoia." You don't have to be condescending.
wow this album sucks! all over the place sonically and not beautiful-sounding. Rhymes weren't deep like advertised. then again, I'm not a die-hard Digable Planets fan by any means.
Damn where have i been???
Ishmael Butler is a genius with no off switch.
+ryan Thoroman This is the hip hop people should be stealin from.butterfly still transcends time and space
Headphones.... and I'm in
It's obviously not a "jazz" album, but Butterfly is influenced by jazz though it was much more obvious in Digable Planets. He does use a lot of jazz samples and beats in his music and "Endeavors" (one of the tracks in this album) definitely has a jazz feel.
Guys can someone pls tell me - who is knife knights? Is it a person outside of Ishmael Butler, Tendai "Baba" Maraire or is it both of them or one of them. I`m struggling with this question lately - would appreciate your advice.
I’m not like this music but 100% respect it. To me this is the type of music you get when someone starts making music and instead of listening to other peoples music and watching tutorials to learn how to make certain type of beats they just kept expanding on whatever comes to their head. 99% of creators today are trying to sound like their favorite music. And then one person comes along with their own style and when they see everyone like that style thousands of people start creating that music. Then big time artist just steal the sound and all of the people in the world who never heard just give believe the big time artist created it. But really most of them are just good at copying other people and adding something to make it a little different or better. That’s how music evolves
Hey does the beginning of are you can you were you kind of sound like the opening to downtown 81 the Glenn O'Brien jean Michel basquiat film?
Masterpiece! :) #onelove
I'm really glad I discovered this hip-hop diamond.
This is very reminiscent of death grips.. love it
***** lol yea after the first song i was like, oh wait
First this is hip hop more in line with Afrika Bambata late 70s in the vein of Planet Rock. Now if this is a good album it is a matter of perception and those bashing folks for not liking it and those bashing those for liking it are the ones who ruin Hip Hop! I don't like the album as a whole but the last two tracks I love.... Which is on par for most Hip Hop Albums in the afformentioned era.
Shit like... Where you at? What you doing? On your mind? How you feeling? What you wearing? How your hair look? What you reading? What's she like? How your mom? How your dad? Is your car filled up with gas? Did you eat? Catch some sleep? What you wish? How you kiss? What kinda grocery on your list? Are you sleepy? Are you jealous? Who you love? Will you tell me?Did you see City of God? Would you fuck with Kobe or Lebron? Oh my God
The New Yorker Magazine...that's right, the one with comic strips so abstruse, I have to look up half the shit on google to get the joke...they reviewed this album about a year ago. That DOES NOT happen. Ever. If you are smart enough, prophetic and deep enough, you get someone from the New Yorker to do an article about your music. Who says this album ruined hip-hop? Wanna-be's. Babies. Grow up, borrow a Tardis, and go back to Naughty-three. Grow a brain, and open it.
You know that this Butterfly, right? One of the members of Digable Planets? Known for Rebirth of Slick? This guy was hip hop in the 90s, and now he's back in 2012 and being labelled as the death of hip hop. Truth be told, this right here, this album that you deemed "hot garbage," this is the rebirth of slick. This is pure poetry set to sumptuous beats. And you're right, it's pretty geeky; geeks are perceptive, after all. They're connoisseurs of the genre, and they seek out hip hop evolution.
I suppose you thought Digable Planets sucked too...to each his own, but am I glad you figured it out in 2 minutes....some people spend their whole lives listening to stuff they don't like...some people missed out on something great because they only spent a few minutes hearing something or someone, but later realize they should have "listened" and end up wasting their lives with the wrong music, the wrong girl, etc. I just wanted to be your '"hip hop" geek'...not sure what the quotes are about.
What the fuck, This is crazy It's like rap only the song structures's are unique and complex wich contain of nothning that your typical hip hop beat but they are built up on of different genres of music in such a well packaged display that sounds like and gives of the engery
of a very inovative talented band playing live It's like pure jazz in pure hip hop form.
I've never heard anything like this done this way before i like it a lot
it confuses and amazes and it's fresh as fuck 1 sit lisin
This ish is on a whole nother level musically wise it creates it's own genre almost
I bought it and love it. To me, it's a classic. But you're wrong to call any music complete trash. I've never found music that has absolutely no value to it. Everything is a contribution. You have the right to not like a song, but it still has value to it. Try not to discount that.
idk if i love this because its legit good music or because its so different
Nice comment, I think the comment about things not having absolutely no value is genuine and astute. I might dislike things enough to want to discount them, but I have to appreciate that some people enjoy the antithesis of what I enjoy.
I hate it when people have to nummerize shit that is in it's essence subjective. The 6/10 says more about you than it does about the album. What I basicly want to say is this: who the fuck are you, and why should we care about your '6/10'?
as for the electronic music mixing and production it's all mixed in with everything else
very well and fuck it just endend replying this video streaming album is a great idea
and a great way 2 listen to an album xpesialy this one.