Once part of Digable Planets, Ishmael Butler continues to be a hip-hop innovator with Shabazz Palaces. He stays connected to new music through his son Jazz, who records as Lil Tracy.Patrick O'Brien Smith/Courtesy of the artist
"I gotta create to survive — I reconciled that a long time ago," he says."And try to loop that in with actually physically surviving and taking care of my responsibilities. Having a place to live and helping out my family." To do that, he has to navigate a marketplace that doesn't value the hard won as much as it does the brand new.
Butler has easy access to those currents through his son Jazz, who performs and records as Lil Tracy. Jazz Butler has been making music for almost as long as his father has been working as Shabazz Palaces, and he's emerged as one of the more influential contemporary artists. When Ishmael Butler describes listening to his son's songs, he sounds delighted."I think about him when he was younger, in middle school, and he was living with me and he wasn't doing 'good in school.
"I've never heard that side of the story. I used to get in a lot of trouble. I know what he means. I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that," he says."I feel like we would be the same if I was this age back then. I don't know how to explain it: I'm the him of this — of my generation."
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