Video: Shabazz Palaces - Blast It (from the Village Beat film, Tough Bond)

Shabazz Palaces - Blast It

Shabazz Palaces - Blast It (from the Village Beat film, Tough Bond) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo . We keep telling you, Shabazz Palaces is gonna blow up big. Can't wait for the album out in June on Sub Pop. In the meantime, here's something pretty cool. According to Sub Pop: “This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond — a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya’s disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Original documentary score was provided [...]

Experimental hip hop group Shabazz Palaces have provided the score for the upcoming Village Beat documentary Tough Bond . The film is about children sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya’s disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Below is the trailer, which features Shabazz Palaces' "Blast It." Learn more about the film and cause Village Beat Facebook www.villagebeat.org Shabazz Palaces is shrouded in mystery. The only recognized member of the group is Digable [...]

Some serious buzz and praise has been coming towards the hip hop group known as Shabazz Palaces in the past year. Technically, you could call it experimental rap, but it is definitely something fresh to the scene. The Seattle, WA group is working with Sub Pop and will be releasing their album Black Up very soon. What I like about their form of hip hop is they are adding new elements to make their music more unique. You'll hear elements of Funk, Jazz, Dubstep, besides the hip hop influences. To [...]

You may remember Shabazz Palaces from hamarai's introduction a few weeks ago. The latest video from the experimental rap group features scenes from an upcoming documentary for which they provided an original score. According to their label Sup Pop: This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond - a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums.  To learn more about the film and cause visit  the Village Beat Non-Profit Company [...]

Great song and amazing video via Gorilla vs Bear This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond - a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya 's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Original documentary score was provided by Shabazz Palaces . Learn more about the film and cause on the Village Beat Non-Profit Company page on Facebook facebook.com/​pages/​Villa ge-Beat/​204222116262502 villagebeat.org Related Articles [...]

Shabazz Palaces soigne les images et la musique. Non content d'avoir livré un des plus beaux clips de 2009 , la formation de Palaceer Lazaro revient avec " Blast It " qui prend pour décor les villages des plaines kényanes. Les images sont extraites du puissant documentaire Tough Bond de l'ONG Village Beat à paraître cet été, le film relate la disparition d'un village au Kenya à travers les yeux de trois enfants sniffeurs de colle. La sortie Black Up , premier LP de Shabazz Palaces, [...]

Shabazz Palaces -Blastit Black Up will be out in June 28th on Sub Pop . So pre-order now . Via Gorilla Vs Bear

Here's a news roundup of Shabazz Palaces: First off, Black Up, the group's debut LP, has been pushed back to July 2 8. The new cover art is to your left. Shabazz Palaces are also soundtracking a new documentary: It's called Tough Bond , and it's about kids in Kenya and the troubles they go through on the street (including sniffing glue). It looks beautiful, and the preview below uses "Blast It."

Shabazz Palaces - Blast It (from the Village Beat film, Tough Bond) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo . Commensurate with their role as the new lost tribe of Shabazz, " Black Up" has been pushed back to late June. Considering that the record leaked a while back, I don't know what the logic behind this is (production problems? marketing plan? Ish was sent into a state of debilitating melancholy after hearing that Wiz Khalifa record?). As the wise Gorilla avers , this is one of the best rap albums [...]

Shabazz Palaces announced today that their upcoming record, Black Up , will be released on June 28 and given the description – Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. – it's something you should keep your eyes out for. Course, the impatient are always rewarded, especially in the form of tour dates: 04/30 Howlin Wolf, New Orleans, LA (Jazz Fest) 05/11 Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA 
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Long-term fans of Shabazz Palaces will know that "Blast It" is not a new song; it was released on their self-titled EP. However this video isn't really a new music video to promote the song, it features clips from an upcoming documentary called Tough Bond about kids in Kenya who sniff glue to help them get through surviving street life. The whole film will feature music by Shabazz Palaces. You can check out the trailer below. In new Shabazz Palaces news, the new album, Black Up , due out on Sub Pop has unfortunately been [...]

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Shabazz Palaces are back with a stunning new video for 'Blast It', which contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond. Last year they wowed us with the amazing 'Belhaven Meridian' (which made out top 50 videos of 2010) and now they're doing it all over again.

Shabazz Palaces remind us all what a special song 'Blast It' really is with this video, albeit with much darker connotations than before. Cut with footage from forthcoming documentary ' Tough Bond '. SP's debut LP drops on Sub Pop in June. via

Shabazz Palaces, the mysterious band from Seattle have just published a video that contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled "Tough Bond" -- a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums.

Seattle's Shabazz Palaces has provided the soundtrack to a new documentary by charity Village Beat. As Sub Pop explained “This ... Continue reading �

Shabazz Palaces | Blast It This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond - a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Original documentary score was provided by Shabazz Palaces. Learn more about the film and cause on the Village Beat Non-Profit Company page on Facebook Teilen

“This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond — a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya’s disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Original documentary score was provided by Shabazz Palaces . Learn more about the film and cause on the Village Beat Non-Profit Company page on Facebook .” Via: G vs. B Post from: The Galley Boys Shabazz Palaces - Blast It Video

This is amazing. According to Sub Pop : "This video contains footage from the upcoming documentary by Village Beat titled Tough Bond - a film about kids sniffing glue to survive street life in Kenya's disappearing villages and exploding urban slums. Original documentary score was provided by Shabazz Palaces . Learn more about the film and cause on the Village Beat Non-Profit Company page on Facebook ." Shabazz Palaces ' Black Up [...]