It took me a while to get around to listening to Shabazz Palaces'Lese Majesty, this year's follow-up to 2011's Black Up. I'm not sure why: Black Up was my favorite album of that year, and I've been a fan of MC Ishmael Butler (the group is a duo consisting of Butler and multi-instrumentalist Tendai "Baba" Maraire) since his days in Digable Planets.…
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