Is Butterfly's Grammy speech what led to Digable Planets getting blackballed?

[tuckgod]

One of the most creative and innovative groups in hip hop history come out of nowhere, become media darlings, commercially successful and critically acclaimed, 2 classic albums and a Grammy, and they just disappeared..

I wonder if this is why...



Shout to Butterfly.

One of Hip Hops forgotten geniuses.

 

[TripleAgent]

One of the most creative and innovative groups in hip hop history come out of nowhere, become media darlings, commercially successful and critically acclaimed, 2 classic albums and a Grammy, and they just disappeared..

I wonder if this is why...



Shout to Butterfly.

One of Hip Hops forgotten geniuses.

This and the ultra blackness of Blowout Comb.

 

[King Sun]

cacs though they had a friendly jazz hip hop group they can listen to but they had one thing coming

 

[tuckgod]

This and the ultra blackness of Blowout Comb.

True.

cacs though they had a friendly jazz hip hop group they can listen to but they had one thing coming

“I’m 68 inches above sea level
93 million miles above these devils”

 

[I AM WE ARE]

True.





“I’m 68 inches above sea level
93 million miles above these devils”

It took me forever to figure that line out

 

[tuckgod]

It took me forever to figure that line out

I was just getting knowledge of self when that song came out.

I instantly hit the soon as she said it

 

[IllmaticDelta]

2nd album was too pro-black/afrocentric

 

[The Message]

never seen that.

blowout comb still gets burn till this day

that album holds a special place in my heart. my big bro put me on to the gods and the earths right when this dropped

shaharazad ali's book. how to eat to live. naiim akbars work. khalid muhammad. studying my lessons everyday. and blowout comb was my soundtrack to all of it

 

[Cadillac]

Disappeared? Didn't they just split up.

To bad they couldn't make a 3rd album but given the lack of success on the 2nd. There weren't gon get that. In addition to the content made it less likely

 

[tuckgod]

that album holds a special place in my heart. my big bro put me on to the gods and the earths right when this dropped

shaharazad ali's book. how to eat to live. naiim akbars work. khalid muhammad. studying my lessons everyday. and blowout comb was my soundtrack to all of it

Breh, it’s like you’re speaking my life.

Everything you said was literally the books and influences that guided me from like 92-94, except the Ali book.

I’ve never read that one.

That period is when the biggest impressions were made on my mind that made me who I am today.

 

[tuckgod]

2nd album was too pro-black/afrocentric

But it’s one of the greatest hip hop albums ever made.

Both albums still sound as fresh today as they did back then.

 

[The Message]

Breh, it’s like you’re speaking my life.

Everything you said was literally the books and influences that guided me from like 92-94, except the Ali book.

I’ve never read that one.

That period is when the biggest impressions were made on my mind that made me who I am today.

thats real breh. that era shaped me to be who i am today

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I know what I'm listening to during my Halo 2 session.

 

[Ziploc]

Blowout Comb is an undeniable classic..better than their first and aged like fine wine imo,still gets heavy rotation in the crib

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Never knew about this, dunno if it would have really been enough to get them blackballed. On a side note tho was very pleasant discovery when I learned about Shabazz Palaces. Still play joints from the first few projects regularly.