Shabazz Palaces - Chocolate Souffle
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Shabazz Palaces - "Chocolate Souffle" from the 2020 album The Don of Diamond Dreams on Sub Pop.
With each new Shabazz Palaces release, it feels like we’re given a glimpse into a distant future, or maybe a far off galaxy, or possibly a parallel universe similar but maybe just a bit better than our own. Whichever theory you subscribe to, it goes without saying that the Seattle group’s music exists within a world of its own.
Their latest album, The Don of Diamond Dreams, is another mind-bending trip guided by Ishamel Butler’s cool, prophetic rhymes. On “Chocolate Souffle” he claims himself to be at the “zenith of slick demeanors” while synthesizers blurt and thump beneath. He swipes at phones for being “not that smart,” proclaiming himself an explorer instead of a scroller. Butler’s lyrics often look at the world from a million miles away but still cut with vindication from someone who has lived on and seen the mental traps of planet Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now in tune now. |
| 0:03.0 | Call a record record finest. You are now in tune, now, collar pop records finest, born in a golden forest, |
| 0:18.0 | five Nigeria and space queens, sing my chorus, Lonely Tiggel like Morris. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, hey, live life like a truckless so flat, |
| 0:30.0 | Coming through the wheel far mad, |
| 0:32.0 | with the top drop Porsche and play |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, all the hate was wrong |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm trapping watch my phone |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, my jumper busters sooms |
| 0:41.0 | I'm lurking in the undertone. |
| 0:43.0 | Nip get out my hair snow cold, I purrue in my loom. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, hey, |
| 0:49.0 | Orange July by the golden lakes, |
| 0:51.0 | grinding 9 to be the breaksys nips to my bitch |
| 0:54.3 | and like two shag. High art, I chair the form apart, |
| 0:59.9 | my father's feeling not that smart. My phone's really not that smart. |
| 1:07.0 | My phone's fully not that smart. |
| 1:08.0 | My phone's fully not that smart. My phone, really not that smart. |
| 1:15.0 | High art, my growth to form apart with my phone's really not that smart. |
| 1:24.0 | I identify the narks. |
| 1:26.0 | You, I ain't got no arch. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm playing the teeth parts. |
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