Today, ever-evolving rapper, producer, and musician Shabazz Palaces is sharing “Jheri Curl Jump,” a sensual electro-funk jam and standout from It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop), featuring guest vocals from Marquette Miller (Breaks and Swells, Knife Knights) and Darrius Willrich. Watch the official visualizer animated by returning collaborator Jacob Kasar and edited by Leigh Riibe. Later this week, Shabazz Palaces will appear at The Stranger’s Genius Awards on Saturday, September 12th at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. Additional live dates will be announced soon.

It’s a Style Sport is the eighth Shabazz Palaces studio album and the first since the release of sibling mini-albums 2023’s Robed In Rareness and 2024’s Exotic Birds Of Prey.

It’s a Style Sport is a bold, forthright, and heavy-hitting album. Throughout, Butler compiles what he’s learned from his storied, dense career into a playful, shimmering portal, again proving himself an artist of chameleonic ambition, fuelled by curiosity, courage, and a limitless imagination. It’s a Style Sport features guest appearances from Thaddeus “Thaddillac” Turner, Evan Flory-Barnes, Gerald “Tugboat” Turner, Kassa Overall, Carlos Overall, and the aforementioned Miller and Willrich. The album was produced by Shabazz Palaces and Erik Blood, recorded at Circular Ruin Studios in Brooklyn (NY), Lake View Studios and Hall of Justice in Seattle (WA), and Parkman Labs in Los Angeles (CA).  It was mixed by Blood at Circular Ruin, and mastered by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering in Detroit (MI).

Shabazz Palaces It’s a Style Sport is available now to preorder on CD/LP/Digital. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Silver (North America) and Sparkle Starlight (EU/UK) vinyl (while supplies last).