It's been roughly a decade since Shabazz Palaces first shook the ramparts with their debut stylistic revolution, 'Black Up'. It still remains impossible to accurately describe a Shabazz Palaces album without lapsing into cosmic tropes. Yet sometimes clich�s are stand-ins for eternal truths. Therein, 'The Don of Diamond Dreams' embodies a futuristic manifestation of ancient myth, full of robotic vocoder and warped auto-tune. It is hip-hop, dub, jazz, R&B, soul, funk, African, experimental, and occasionally even pop. But over the course of five albums, Shabazz Palaces have conceived the fluid boundaries of their own one-band genre.
1) Portal North: Panthera ()
2) Ad Ventures ()
3) Fast Learner (Feat. Purple Tape Nate) ()
4) Wet ()
5) Chocolate Souffle ()
6) Portal South: Micah ()
7) Bad Bitch Walking (Feat. Stas THEE Boss) ()
8) Money Yoga (Feat. Darrius) ()
9) Thanking the Girls ()
10) Reg Walks By the Looking Glass (Feat. Carlos Overall) ()