New Music Albums: IT'S A STYLE SPORT (Shabazz Palaces)

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Artist:
Shabazz Palaces

Genre:
Rap

Total Time:
38:45

Record Label:
Sub Pop

Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
October 23, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: Ishmael Butler has been one of rap’s most thoughtful and committed experimentalists since the early ’90s, first with Digable Planets (“Rebirth of Slick [Cool Like Dat]”—you know the track) and later as Shabazz Palaces. Produced with fellow Seattleite Erik Blood, It’s a Style Sport is one of the leanest, chilliest albums he’s made yet.

It’s a Style Sport connects the dots between ’80s electro and 2000s Neptunes (“Jheri Curl Jump,” “Heliocentric Immortality Manifesto H.I.M.”) and The Delfonics and Sun Ra (“Show Me Missouri in Mink”), creating a sense of intergenerational continuity that speaks Black power without ever having to say it. The glue is Butler’s delivery, which has the unsettling, free-associated quality of a guy receiving transmissions from a distant star. Afrofuturism lives; Butler is proof.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet) (02:53)

2 . Field Notes (03:43)

3 . Show Me Missouri In Mink (04:34)

4 . Jheri Curl Jump (03:22)

5 . eadstock Dude (04:01)

6 . Tongue In Chic (03:01)

7 . Heliocentric Immortality Manifesto H.I.M. (03:45)

8 . Olivia According To Touch (03:10)

9 . Money Can't Save Your Mind (04:38)

10 .From One Future To Another (05:38)

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