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NEW MUSIC: “Forerunner Foray”– Shabazz Palaces
“Forerunner Foray” is the latest from Shabazz Palaces’ Lese Majesty (due July 29 on Sub Pop). It’s a spectral hip-hop jam from the future featuring frequent collaborator Catherine Harris-White of...
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NEW MUSIC: Lese Majesty – Shabazz Palaces
“Herein bumps and soars Lese Majesty, the new sonic action of Shabazz Palaces.” So states the write-up concerning SP’s newest album offering (officially out today) on their record label’s website...
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VIDEO: “#CAKE”– Shabazz Palaces (dir. by Hiro Murai)
Shabazz Palaces yet again plumb the depths of the phantasmic in their dizzying, rarefied new music video for “#CAKE,” directed by Hiro Murai. Go get SP’s essential new Lese Majesty, here.
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VIDEO: “Motion Sickness”– Shabazz Palaces (dir. by TEAN)
The new Shabazz Palaces clip, “Motion Sickness,” tugs at heartstrings and thrills the dramatic film devotee in all of us. The moment of reckoning for the video’s tragic heroine comes near the end....
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NEW MUSIC: “Recognition”– THEESatisfaction (feat. Shabazz Palaces)
THEESatisfaction have announced a release date for EarthEE, the follow-up to their official 2012 Sub Pop debut awE naturalE. Watch for the new album on February 24, 2015. In the meantime check out the...
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206UP YEAR-END: What Mattered Most in 2014
Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images News Great things happened in Seattle hip-hop in the year 2014 and many of those things took the form of cohesive, fully-realized albums. We’ll get to listing some of...
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VIDEO: “Forerunner Foray”– Shabazz Palaces (dir. by Chad VanGaalen)
The very first truck I bought after I got a “real job” out of college was a 1994 forest green Toyota 4Runner. That vehicle’s tenure in my life was fairly uneventful; it couriered me to various...
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AUDIO: “Ham Sandwich”– Shabazz Palaces
The Shabazz Palaces one-off “Ham Sandwich” speaks on police brutality. Really though, doesn’t all of SP’s music directly or indirectly reference the shit that goes down? Anyway, this quickie is a...
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LIVE COVERAGE: Seattle Hip-Hop at the 2015 Capitol Hill Block Party
Capitol Hill Block Party | Capitol Hill, Seattle | July 24-26, 2015 By Emery Desper. Photos by Rafael Ochoa and courtesy of Alex Crick / SMI (where noted). The 2015 edition of Capitol Hill Block Party...
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AUDIO: “The Mystery of Lonnie The Døn”– Shabazz Palaces
We here at the 206UP office figured we should pull ourselves away from Compton long enough to throw you some new Shabazz Palaces. “The Mystery of Lonnie The Døn” is from the Adult Swim Singles series....
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