Rebirth of Slick by th' Digable Planets: C or D or meh?

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I'm saying classic, but what do I know?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic like crazy.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Why not discuss why?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That thick bass line, "we be to rap what key be to lock," the awesome b&w video, great title, the pretty good if not exceptional flow and trading-off between the three, "man, Cleopatra Jones!," even the "click, click, click" bridge.

And obviously the listing at the end.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

seminal

― tremendoidorangeblazer, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

one of those songs I've long since "gotten over", but I revisited that debut recently and it's still a pleasant wisp of a thing, Doodlebug's hamfisted flow notwithstanding. Shame the superior 2nd one got slept on.

― tremendoidorangeblazer, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh, 'blowout comb' is amazing.

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This and "Excursions", or the entirety or Low End theory are super classic to me because of the (self)references to jazz and the making of connections between slick/smooth cool-ness and hip-hop bravado. They are both kinda MOR and for the kids which made them (seem, at least) more subversive than NWA or something like that that I also love(d) - 'cause parents usually just don't understand. I thought them infinately cool (in a way I could never be as a corny whiteboy proto-indie fuxor and in a different way than Dr. Dre or "Rump Shaker"). It's also (and maybe all the rest was a long way of saying this) so middle class. And so were Run DMC and De La Soul, but that was before my time and too hip-hop. "Rebirth of Slick" is totally pop even if it's trying to be like jazz. It's like Sade-hip-hop. What other hip-hop songs wouldn't sound out of place on lite-FM (almost)?

That probably sounds like a bunch of BS so alternately just "classic".

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and the horns are really catchy.

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

blowout comb is like a cookie monster pillowcase.....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

...a slept on classic

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

C-

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

BLOW OUT COMB!!!!

CLASSSSSSSIC!!!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Blow Out Comb is an underrated classic.

Both Digable Planets albums occupy much space in used bins. Snap 'em up if you slept on 'em.

― blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 29 August 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Creamy spiiiiiiiiiies...

So whatever happened to em?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

They lost cred so fast -- really a shame. I was at an Ice Cube show in early '93, right when the single had come out. A huge cheer arose when it came on the PA. A year later, they won the rap Grammy and you could hear the audience's (the part that cared, anyway) disappointment.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuckin' DUD!!!!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC. I still love Reachin'. One of the first albums that I really loved.

― jaymc, Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, but I much prefer Blowout Comb on the whole to Reachin.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC if only because there exists a cassette of my brother and an ex-girlfriend doing a cover of it at one of those amusement park "Sing like the stars!" booths.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

is one of them King Britt? someone told me that.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 30 August 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

King Britt was their DJ.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 30 August 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate this song more that mere words can describe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

SHOCKAH!

_Blowout Comb_ seems more likely to appeal to you anyway, Alex.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The first album was awful hippy-dippy acid-jazz trash. But yeah somehow they went all chrysalis and 'Blowout Comb' is amazing. "Black Ego" has one of the best rhythm tracks I've heard in hip-hop ... can't place whether it's samples or original instrumentation, but either way, unbelievably sublime.

― Dare, Monday, 30 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUYvjhsL5a4

thanks to Spottie_Ottie_Dope's display name, this song is now stuck in my head as "a Nickelback of funk"

― set me on fire RAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:43 (thirteen years ago)

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