7.5
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#12,350
All Time
10
Tracks
“Expanding beyond their already broadened horizons, Shabazz Palaces are seemingly unstoppable”
“In his book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines The Future, American scholar Roy Christopher describes hip-hop as a form of “black cyberpunk”. It’s not a huge leap – both movements emerged at a similar time, both hijack the mainstream for disruptive ends, and both build a new world from the materials of the old. “Cyberpunk might be assimilated, co-opted, and unseen, but its spirit lives on in hip”
“Ishmael Butler, the MC of the futurist hip-hop duo, looks in a new direction for inspiration on his latest project: his own son, emo rapper Lil Tracy.”
“Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler’s days as part of Grammy-winning golden age hip-hop group Digable Planets are almost out of sight. Few in music – let alone in rap – are granted a shot at a second coming, so when the trio first parted ways in 1995 and Butler moved back to Seattle, he could have been forgiven for thinking that was that. However, on meeting multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire (son of mbi”
