Ha just realized up thread I said I was in vacation for a year when it was three weeks.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Yes, definitely my favorite line on the album but one I realize won't quite scan for non-Seattlites.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:28 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pls to explain?
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Already listened to the whole album three times today.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Ezell's is a Seattle-area chicken joint chain. I assume he's talking about the one in the Central District (with the wooden fence).
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I've listened to the album at least a dozen times, apparently.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
cool
i only know places that were in posse on broadway
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Here's the street view with Ezells and the fence in question: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.606549,-122.302756,3a,75y,222.17h,91.23t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCkMy4T3RJdzBQxeHpwU4RA!2e0!6m1!1e1
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
It's on 23rd about half a mile north of Jackson, a few blocks south of Union. Sir Mixalot and his posse definitely rolled past it but were more set on Mexican eatin'.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes I wonder what happened to Larry the White Guy, he was in real estate I hope he didn't lose it all when the bubble burst
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
From what I've heard, Mix (later) made a lot in real estate investment himself and I've hoped the same thing.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
"this album is quite a lot different to the first, I think"
yeah i think so. i get much more of an ambient vibe from this one. there's a few tracks which are as abrasive as black up, but mostly, this is a pretty serene experience.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 31 July 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
O_O O_O O_O ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
(finally listening to this, I'm considering pushing a meeting so I can keep playing it)
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
apparently I forgot to actually schedule the meeting so I pushed it half an hour #priorities
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Surprised there's not more discussion about Lese Majesty; this is one of the best albums I've heard this year. Endlessly inventive and really enjoyable.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
It's fully an album; hunting and pecking for tracks to focus on feels counterproductive
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 06:14 (nine years ago) link
apart from a few songs, its really like the opposite of black up in a lot of ways. that album was pretty confrontational, this is a welcoming, meditative, serene experience for the most part. taken me a while to get used to it.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 8 August 2014 07:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is excellent
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
I remember when the term "witch house" first popped up, the mental image I had in my head of what the music would sound like is very much like what's going on with the Shabazz Palaces albums, especially Lese Majesty.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
i dunno jay and silent bob's young cousin from flint rapping "Bissssh you alooooowne" over casio presets was p cool too
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
this ticks off a lot of boxes for me, and i enjoy listening to it, but it's so vaporous, i have a hard time holding on to what I've heard after it's over. still v impressed with the album, just wish it grabbed me more.
― the late great, Friday, 8 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
agree, there is very little in the way of hooks here (vocally or instrumentally).
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 8 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
it's occasionally zappaesque
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Can't decide if the Loser edition was named that way because only losers would worry about getting ltd edition purple vinyl or some other reason but I felt like a loser walking around hunting down a copy. Glad I have it now though. Strange title for the ltd ed though.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:21 (nine years ago) link
that's not a Shabazz thing, it's a Sub Pop thing. they call all their limited colored vinyl runs Loser Edition...a reference to their famous tshirt, but i'd guess also a cheeky way of poking fun at vinyl collector nerds. more here: https://www.subpop.com/news/2012/06/05/sub_pop_loser_edition_faq
― alpine static, Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
#CAKE video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DDRPf8KHawY
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 22 August 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
weird video. nsfw fyi
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Saturday, 23 August 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
that video looks great tho I have no idea what's going on. kind of a gigantic terrifying statue vibe in the final shot
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 August 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
it's a feeling
― jaymc, Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
the black constellation?
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
i should go back to the new album; songs on it have stuck with me most all year
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
xp: their collective, also includes Thee Satisfaction, OC Notes, Erik Blood, some visual artist peeps
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
new song about Richard Sherman :D
https://soundcloud.com/yung-bruh-1/sherm-stick
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
this album is still one of the most interesting from 2014, but it is basically just rap music that (apart from cake and a few other songs obv) you could maybe hear in a spa or get a massage to.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/120892984cc145db4accd2b35c4c9a8b/tumblr_mw2ebd2Nv71qbipv3o1_500.gif
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
if it was instrumental, i would def give it to the masseur next time to go to get my back sorted.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Times have changed. In my day if the masseur played hip-hop he'd be run out of town.
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
seriously, if was instrumental, im not sure anyone would even know it was hip hop. its pretty ambient stuff imo.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
forthcoming THEESatifaction album is excellent
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
this album owns
― example (crüt), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
#latepass
otmfm
Also I relistened to Black Up recently and two years later it completely did my mind in
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
both great records that I love but rarely am in the mood to listen to.
― Spottie, Monday, 12 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Black Up is my favorite album of the decade so far.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 09:32 (nine years ago) link
^this is why I spun it again. It's prob top 3 for me now. It sounds really radical to me
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this album is truly great imo
― Dan S, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
black up is 10 times better than lese. which is good but just a bit too meditative. this group need to be careful they dont become a new kind of pm dawn (not in sound, as i actually liked pm dawn, but in perception). but it is interesting how shabazz seem to get more love in non rap than in rap circles.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 11:13 (nine years ago) link
It's the record label
― Spottie, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
I need to listen to LM a little more before I can offer any more opinions w conviction but it kind of is like the Tree House to Black Up's Dark York, where both Le1f and SP are sort of evoking cloud rap as a way to transmute their tendencies towards abstraction into something more luxuriant and luminous, aesthetically speaking
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
good analogy
it is interesting how shabazz seem to get more love in non rap than in rap circles.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:13 AM Bookmark
I get why, but a lot of my love for SP has to do with how artfully they capture the hyperspecific context of being a black Seattlite. Moreso on Black Up than LM, even if it doesn't have anything as geographically specific as the line about the fence at Ezell's.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYeTod70_GE
this is what the beats on LM remind me of.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 26 January 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link