ishmael butler

Hip-Hop Since the Don of Rhyme: Shabazz Palaces’ ‘The Don of Diamond Dreams’

Hip-Hop Since the Don of Rhyme: Shabazz Palaces’ ‘The Don of Diamond Dreams’

With the release of Shabazz Palaces’ The Don of Diamond Dreams, producer-rapper Ishmael Butler envisions yet another lunar world of sound disturbed by his anxieties and desires.

20 Questions: Ishmael Butler from Shabazz Palaces and Knife Knights

20 Questions: Ishmael Butler from Shabazz Palaces and Knife Knights

Our 20 Questions feature sums up the quality that Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler only reveals once you get to talking with him: his dry, clipped humor.

Porter’s Head: Rapper Porter Ray on His Latest Hip-Hop Opus, ‘Eye of the Beholder’

Porter’s Head: Rapper Porter Ray on His Latest Hip-Hop Opus, ‘Eye of the Beholder’

Bridging disparate influences like Portishead and Das EFX in his multifarious hip-hop, Porter Ray waxes poetically about the troubles in own his life and in the world around him in this interview.

Shabazz Palaces: Black Up