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
― example (crüt), Monday, January 12, 2015 1:09 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― marcos, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
also wtf @ this thread title?
― marcos, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
haha yes it is... unfortunate
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
it came from a twitter post mentioned in The Stranger: http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/01/11/shabazz-palaces-bigger-than-jimi
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
A few days ago I was on a date and we randomly walked past Ish chilling on a park bench eating from a takeout container by himself. My date didn't know who he was. Cool story.
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
would read again
― Spottie, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
does anyone really think lese is better than black up?
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
thee satisfaction are a tad on the corny side as vocalists/writers btw. musically theyre much more interesting.
i don't particularly care that much if black up is better, they're both good
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
*this guy*
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
yea they have very different vibes imo and sometimes i like the spacier more out there ambient vibe of lese, sometimes i prefer black up
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
i mean i still think black up is a masterpiece too!
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
clear some space out so we can space out
― marcos, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 10:53 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i actually do!
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
also the opening two tracks on lese are so inviting that i just think of those opening vibes and immediately feel compelled to put the record on
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Ha, that's how I feel about Black Up.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
ha black up is also inviting for sure.
also i have really been digging theesatisfaction's EarthEE, tried a while back and it didn't really stick but i am really enjoying it right now
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
EarthEE is fantastic
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"lavishments of light-looking" track from WOKE, new group w/ fly lo + thundercat + shabazz - https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/woke, this tune has george clinton on it too
more info
http://pitchfork.com/news/61398-flying-lotus-talks-woke-his-new-project-with-shabazz-palaces-and-thundercat/
http://www.thefader.com/2015/09/28/flying-lotus-shabazz-palaces-thundercat
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
in a spa or
sometimes ppl need spas
― j., Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
new song: https://shabazzpalaces.bandcamp.com/album/quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Quazarz is out there now. kookoo good
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 May 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
This is a group that feels like they should be way more massive than they are. Reminds me a little bit of Animal Collective pre MWP in terms of it being a mass kept secret.
― yesca, Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
two new albums
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535282090/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/25/534316470/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-vs-the-jealous-machines
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
think the first one's got a little oboe solo on it
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
or an english horn or somethin
im more into what his son's doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U&t=2s
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U
Keep thought leading!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
The new albums are great. I feel like I'll be spending the rest of the summer unravelling them.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 09:40 (six years ago) link
i like the albums but ive a feeling nothing will be as good as blackup from these guys. obv these two albums are going to take a long time to figure out, but these two sound much looser than the last two. kind of relaxed, like its just two albums from a group not really striving to do anything in particular, and releasing the results (i know theres some sort of narrative at work, but im not sure it was that sustained).
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
The problem with these two albums to me is that it's basically just a sketched out version of a story that was also there on Lese Majesty. But, some of the details are great. I'm not the worlds biggest hip-hop expert, has there been much talk of 'Quasars' before? It's brilliant as a concept, not a star (which were negative on Lese Majesty, too corporate, too gilded pharaoh) but a quasar, QUAsi-StellAR, star-like but in fact powered by a black hole at the center. That's kinda afro-futurism at it's finest, imo.
― Frederik B, Monday, 28 August 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
cuz there's no theesatisfaction thread - classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2powgJ-7t_Y
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Yes. Their second album, especially.
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Sunday, 8 October 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link