There’s a mysterious new hip hop group floating around the information superhighway called Shabazz Palaces.

They’re crisp, cerebral flow bouncing over stripped-down-with-a-gangsta-lean space beats is a killer combination that manages to sound fresher than a moist toilette amidst the modern day mud they call hip hop.

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After a little sniffing around, it turns out the group is masterminded by one of the illest mc’s of all time (in my humble opinion of course), Ishmael Butler AKA Butterfly from Digable Planets & Cherrywine.

Since it’s been proven time and time again that everything Ish touches turns to liquid velvet you know it’s gotta be “ooh wee”.  His abstract fingerprints are all over this from-the-ground-up DIY project cloaked in ambiguity.

They quickly plopped out 2 EP’s back in the summer of 2009 and, along with many many others, I can’t wait to see what they drop next.  Anticipation’s back in Hip Hop!  Check out a couple of tracks below…

SHABAZZ PALACES – A MESS…

SHABAZZ PALACES – HOTTABATCH

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