Shabazz Palaces Black Up
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guitarded_chuck
October 19th 2018


18070 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

unclereich
October 19th 2018


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Aye

AlexKzillion
January 27th 2019


17139 Comments


Listened to this for the first time post-me getting really into Digable Planets today... never occurred to me that Butterfly was a member of this group

Deathconscious
October 3rd 2019


27347 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is cool. Whats with the averages on the rest of their discog, though?

Relinquished
October 3rd 2019


48717 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

they're not as engaging (re: fun), but it's partly because they're kinda way out there, more abstract.

unclereich
October 3rd 2019


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

not to mention this being an impossible album to live up to

Deathconscious
October 3rd 2019


27347 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

bummer. i wouldve liked to have more material to listen to, its not often i find a hip hop artist/group i can get into.

luci
October 3rd 2019


12844 Comments


lese majesty is fantastic but it’s definitely more abstract, a grower
opening trio on that one is better than any stretch on this record imo

Relinquished
October 3rd 2019


48717 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'd still check the rest out, they have some SOLID ideas. but people want bangers and that wasn't their point of this group.

unclereich
October 3rd 2019


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

opening trio on that one is better than any stretch on this record imo







the one two pinch of Luxor and foray is flawless. foray may be Shabazz's best track in fact.

DocSportello
October 3rd 2019


3369 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed. Forerunner Foray is one of the great atmospheric hip hop tracks of the decade

unclereich
October 3rd 2019


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

this album is my fav of the previous decade :D

Relinquished
October 3rd 2019


48717 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

it's of this decade

unclereich
October 3rd 2019


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Mandela effect, could have swore it was older than 2011.

unclereich
October 3rd 2019


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I remember bumping this in Vietnam

oltnabrick
February 21st 2020


40631 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

shabazz palaces / lil tracy collab soon?



https://twitter.com/tracyminajjjjj/status/1230373950212849664

Deathconscious
February 21st 2020


27347 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I liek this

unclereich
April 3rd 2020


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

praying the new lp will be above a 3.5 : )

dedex
Staff Reviewer
April 3rd 2020


12784 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8 | Sound Off

heyo there's a new lp in the cooking?!

unclereich
April 3rd 2020


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

comes out in two weeks! the singles are a mixed bag. I fear that black up and lese majesty were the brain children of Ishmael's first acid trip. the ensuing two albums were his comedown and subsequent trips which are never as good as the first. the music has just gotten dull and uninspired. "fast learner" works as a pretty solid single and I actually like some of the ideas in that song, despite is being very long and slow. "chocolate soufflé" reminds me of the last two albums unfortunately. it isn't BAD but its not something I am going to return to. all in all im not too excited for the new album.



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