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Boston's Digable Planets (the trio of Craif "Doodlebug" Irving, Ismail "Butterfly" Butler and Mary-Ann "Ladybug" Vieira) did more than simply anchor hip-hop
to a less confrontational and more laid-back stance.
Rebirth of Slick (1993) used a sample of Art Blakey' Stretchin' and de facto coined "jazz-hop".
That aesthetics was affirmed on a ground-breaking album,
Reachin' A New Refutation of Time and Space (Elektra, 1993), that
went against the flow of hard-hitting post-Public Enemy albums, while preserving
the political agenda.
On stage, the trio of rappers fronted a combo of dj, standup bass, drums and saxophone.
Despite its grander ambitions, the laid-back atmosphere of
Blowout Comb (EMI, 1994) also highlighted the limits of the trio, incapable
of finding its own voice despite the great intuition of their debut album.
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