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• Whose snake is this?

A few Source staffers were cold chillin’ downtown last weekend and were privy to a boatload of Digable Planets getting pipped in over the soundsystem. Good times, right?

But it just made us curious about what Butterfly, one of the group’s MCs, was up to. In 2011, the rapper resurfaced as Palaceer Lazaro—one half of Seattle’s Shabbaz Palaces. However abstract, Digable was pereicved to be, his re-emergence was simply bizarre: cyborg-beats and a stilted delivery. It was hard to turn off, though.

Over the weekend, the Stranger’s Larry Mizell Jr. posted a cut off a new Shabazz Palaces project. And “They Come in Gold” is still weird. But like, good-weird.

This article appears in May 8-14, 2014.

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Better Living Through Music: Shabazz Palaces

by Dave Cantor, The Source - Bend, Oregon
May 15, 2014

<h1>Better Living Through Music: Shabazz Palaces</h1> <p class="byline">by Dave Cantor, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />May 15, 2014</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter"><a href="http://https://www.subpop.com/artists/shabazz_palaces"><img src="https://media1.fdncms.com/bend/imager/whose-snake-is-this/u/original/2328098/1399923194-shabazzpalaces-2014-1-patrickobriensmith-print.jpg" alt="Whose snake is this?" title="Whose snake is this?" width="500" height="333" /></a></p> <ul> <li>Patrick O'Brien Smith/Sub Pop</li> <li>Whose snake is this?</li> </ul> </div> <p>A few <em>Source</em> staffers were cold chillin' downtown last weekend and were privy to a boatload of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/digable-planets-mn0000826762/discography">Digable Planets</a> getting pipped in over the soundsystem. Good times, right?</p> <p>But it just made us curious about what Butterfly, one of the group's MCs, was up to. In 2011, the rapper resurfaced as Palaceer Lazaro—one half of Seattle's <a href="http://www.shabazzpalaces.com" target="_blank">Shabbaz Palaces</a>. However abstract, Digable was pereicved to be, his re-emergence was simply bizarre: cyborg-beats and a stilted delivery. It was hard to turn off, though.</p> <p>Over the weekend, <em>the Stranger's</em> <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/05/06/new-shabazz-palaces-they-come-in-gold" target="_blank">Larry Mizell Jr. posted a cut </a>off a new <a href="https://www.subpop.com/news/2014/05/06/new_shabazz_palaces_track_album_and_pre_order_for_lese_majesty">Shabazz Palaces project</a>. And "They Come in Gold" is still weird. But like, good-weird.</p> <p><object></object></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> <object></object> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/better-living-through-music-shabazz-palaces-2327952/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=28608&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/better-living-through-music-shabazz-palaces-2327952/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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