If music played during astral travel, Shabazz Palaces would be the soundtrack. At least that is what their second album Lese Majesty sounds like it aims to be. It came out in late July and, as Ishmael Butler explained in an interview with NPR, it is an affront to the self-absorbed, especially self-absorbed rap "royalty." The album has been neatly divided into seven suites, and the first single off the [...]
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