Gonjasufi - Afrikan Spaceship (Shabazz Palaces Rework)

What this video is

Released March 8, 2017 on Warp Records as part of the Mandela Effect remix album, this track places Gonjasufi's original 'Afrikan Spaceship' (from the 2016 album Callus) within a rework framework that fuses Afrocentric mysticism, sci-fi cosmology, and experimental hip-hop. Shabazz Palaces—the Seattle-based Afrofuturist duo—reshapes the source material in their signature mode of abstracted, intergalactic Black…

Why it matters

A key artifact at the intersection of Afrofuturist hip-hop, psychedelic dub, and experimental electronics. The Shabazz Palaces rework extends Gonjasufi's raw, spiritually charged aesthetic into interstellar abstraction, reinforcing both artists' roles as architects of an Afrocentric avant-garde…