Ishmael Butler, of former Digable Planets fame, has released his third album of the 2020s, titled: “Exotic Birds of Prey” under the Shabazz Palaces moniker. The group previously consisted of Butler and Tendai Maraire, though it became a solo act for Butler sometime between 2017 and 2020. They are most known in hip-hop circles as…
On Robed in Rareness , Ishmael Butler aka Shabazz Palaces takes yet another step in his forward-thinking, far-sighted project of Afrofuturistic hip-hop.
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Flanked by a close circle of collaborators, hip-hop experimentalist Ishmael Butler takes a brief, mysterious trip through rap aesthetics past and future.