Digable Planets’ Blowout Comb
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Digable Planets’ Blowout Comb
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- “Blowing Down”
- “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”
- “ninth Surprise (Blackitolism)”
- “The Might 4th Motion Starring Doodlebug”
- “Jettin’ “
When Digable Planets launched “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” in 1993, the tune blew up in recognition and the group was hailed as a form of new, different hip-hop.
A 12 months later, Digable Planets launched their second and closing album, known as Blowout Comb, and World Cafe correspondent John Morrison says it went in a very new route.
“I do not know if Blowout Comb is deliberately pushing again in opposition to that, but it surely undoubtedly has a rougher sort of edge to it,” he says.
On this installment of The Tradition Nook, Morrison talks about Digable Planets’ Blowout Comb because the album turns 30 years previous.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.