Product Description

Digable Planets was one of the first rap acts to introduce rap's jazzier side to mainstream America. Now they're back to show their roots with BLOWOUT COMB.
The band that was "hip like that" and "grooved like that" while fronting a livejazz band on their debut embraces their afrocentric roots and Brooklyn heritage throughout the grooves on BLOWOUT COMB.Digable Planets' nucleus of rappers Butterfly, Ladybug and Doodlebug have relaxed their style to sound less slick, but it works and the feel is noticeably more comfortable.
Possibly it's Digable Planets' love for their home Brooklyn that makes BLOWOUT COMB so immediately familiar and accessible.Proving that neighborhood pride equals nationalism for manyrap acts, Digable Planets' politics are obvious but not overbearing. Mentions of Brooklyn's numerous neighborhoods weave themselves in and out of Digable Planets' pro-black, community pride aesthetic. With liner notes advertising Digable Planets block parties next to calls-to-action to free political prisoners, BLOWOUT COMB ranks as one of the most community-centred rap albums of the year.

Track Listing

1. May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug
2. Black Ego
3. Dog It
4. Jettin'
5. Borough Check
6. Highing Fly
7. Dial 7 (Axiomos Of Creamy Spices)
8. Art Of Easing
9. KB's Alley (Mood Dudes Groove)
10. Graffiti
11. Blowing Down
12. 9th Wonder (Blackitolism)
13. For Corners

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10622 in Music
• Released on: 1994-10-17
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!
I knew this album ever since it came out, but never really got into it, and now I wonder why because, essentially, this is an amazing piece of music. For a mid-90s hip-hop record it shows incredible musical awareness and a playful hunger for experimentation. Never straying too far from banging New York rap, as when joined by Guru and Jeru da Damaja, the Planets nevertheless reach new heights, as on their first album, by cleverly blending intelligent rhymes with deeply jazzy influences. If you enjoy contemporary work by artists such as the Roots or Common, you are going to love this.

Its fresh every time you hear it!
I've had this album since 1996, and i will never get board of it. It appeals to both jazz and hip-hop lovers and it even goes wider than that. It is pure proggresion from the first album (a new refutation of time and space), and im forever living in hope of some more work from this immensely talented group.
A must buy it will open your ears and eyes!!

clever lyrics, good jazz & funk influences.
This album is a nice follow on from Irrefutable space and time. More upbeat with more funk licks. Ohio players are used for a corking funk track. Easy on the ears and at times just the sort of thing for a nice quiet sunday or a Friday night soiree. Buy it people.