Shabazz Palaces "Dawn in Luxor" (2016)


Meet us there
We're throwing cocktails at the Führer
Blackness is abstracted and protracted by the purest
Moderns Cubists or Surrealists
To sleep they couldn’t lull us so we synthesise our realness
...
Death, that’s my final sentence






"Dawn In Luxor" from Shabazz Palaces' 7/29/14 release, Lese Majesty
Images and Video courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/




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