Popular Rap Group Gets Shut Down After Giving Pro-Black Speech and Asking Black People To Stop Killing Each Other.

[MasterThought]

Is this true old heads?

I was too young in the early 90s to know about this in real time.

I've been listening to Digable Planet songs the past few days and this video popped up:





The comments caught my attention:

Is this true?

Was this acceptance speech pretty much the end of Digable Planets in the mainstream?

Knowing what I know now, it makes 100% perfect sense.

Of course ((they)) don't want popular rappers suggesting peace, love and unity amongst blacks

 

[TEH]

I never saw this but Blowout Comb is probably the most underrated rap album of all time … I truly believe this …

 

[Uachet]

I'm pretty sure what actually messed them over is the shout out to the Nation of Islam. Remember, the academy and much of the music industry is run by Jews.

 

[FrontoBama]

I didn’t even know they were Five Percent.
Or from New York lol

I never ever ever heard of them outside of that song in Need for Speed..This is shocking lol

 

[MasterThought]

@Wild self

Ain't you an older head bro?


I see you speaking on old school rap alot

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

No. The hip-hop climate changed and they were one of the last of the 'Conscious Era' MC's of the 90's along with Camp Lo.

Why did the climate change?

Spoiler

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[ReturnOfJudah]

Damn they got took out quick

 

[MasterThought]

I remember on one of their songs Doodlebug mentioned "7 and a crescent".

As a kid I thought that meant he had 7 kids and 1 on the way


Had no idea that was NOI talk

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

Blowout Comb was a masterpiece album. I’ve never heard that speech because I hated awards shows when I was a teen, but they did basically disappear after that album and I never knew why. It makes sense now.

Actually, after reading the Wiki…

Blowout Comb - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I think what happened was the album flopped because people were expecting them to continue the style of their first album and Blowout Comb was more pro black and had more of a low fi sound. It was a groundbreaking album and kind of a style guide for me at the time. There’s even one track where they’re in a classroom setting and laying out the new look.

This album also stands out to me because I remember getting off work and going to Circuit City in New Orleans East in The Plaza Mall area and I grabbed Blowout Comb and this other breh grabbed Method Man’s Tical. Blowout Comb had been out for a month and I kind of blew it off because Digable Planets were corny to me and I didn’t fukk with their first album. No one really into Hip Hop did. White kids loved it. Breh looked at me like…



“You buying that shyt? You better get on this Method Man!”

But I could tell after watching their new video and Yo MTV Raps appearance they were on some new shyt.

Favorite track:



“She got moist, cus I got the platinum voice” was a mantra for me up until I locked it down with my wife. That line repeated in my head through many situations in life. Thanks for taking me down memory lane OP.

 

[get these nets]

Bit of Revision.

We fukked with DP's singles, but they blew up in the mainstream, sold whatever amount of records they sold, and won the Grammy because their hit song crossed over.

White audience, MTV, and pop radio programmers fell in love with a rap song every few years and it became a pop hit to them

"On MTV, but they don't care, they'll have a new N next year" as Ice Cube said

Their next album didn't have the pop friendly hit, so didn't blow up in mainstream

Youth audience didn't fukk with their first album like that, just some singles. Next album had to compete with newest acts. Golden age of hip hop in that era, so youth were fukking with the hottest artists and groups, not DP.

They were in no man's land.

 

[TEH]

Blowout Comb was a masterpiece album. I’ve never heard that speech because I hated awards shows when I was a teen, but they did basically disappear after that album and I never knew why. It makes sense now.

Actually, after reading the Wiki…

Blowout Comb - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I think what happened was the album flopped because people were expecting them to continue the style of their first album and Blowout Comb was more pro black and had more of a low fi sound. It was a groundbreaking album and kind of a style guide for me at the time. There’s even one track where they’re in a classroom setting and laying out the new look.

This album also stands out to me because I remember getting off work and going to Circuit City in New Orleans East in The Plaza Mall area and I grabbed Blowout Comb and this other breh grabbed Method Man’s Tical. Blowout Comb had been out for a month and I kind of blew it off because Digable Planets were corny to me and I didn’t fukk with their first album. No one really into Hip Hop did. White kids loved it. Breh looked at me like…



“You buying that shyt? You better get on this Method Man!”

But I could tell after watching their new video and Yo MTV Raps appearance they were on some new shyt.

Favorite track:



“She got moist, cus I got the platinum voice” was a mantra for me up until I locked it down with my wife. That line repeated in my head through many situations in life. Thanks for taking me down memory lane OP.

They were seen as soft on their first album because of the mainstream appeal of ‘Cool like That’ … low key that was a conscious song and album though.

It was a single not as many people got the whole album …

Plus when Blow Out Comb came … I remember when they team up with Guru for a track and it looked like they were acting hard … but anyone following them knew it was consistent.

Overall their downfall was image and some of the cryptic 5% Nation lyrics … if you got them you were if not you were probably

 

[Wild self]

@Wild self

Ain't you an older head bro?


I see you speaking on old school rap alot

Yeah, this thread has credibility.

Too many people want history erased for their superficial, selfish appetite

 

[Buddy]

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