Majesty indeed: Shabazz Palaces are a force for musical change

Ed Power reckons Shabazz Palaces made the album of the year. He talks to the group who managed to make hip-hop interesting again

Majesty indeed: Shabazz Palaces are a force for musical change

ISHMAEL BUTLER inhabits a plane of reality slightly removed from the one on which the rest of us live.

You can hear it in the music he makes as one half of Shabazz Palaces — a languid, esoteric fusion of genres that just about qualifies as ‘hip-hop’.

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