Reachin': A New Refutation of Time and Space by Digable Planets

Digable Planets: Butterfly, Doodle, Ladybug. Additional personnel: Scientific Homiez (programming). Producers: Butterfly, Shane "The Doctor" Faber, Mike Mangini. Recorded at the Sound Doctor Studio, North Bergen, New Jersey. Digable Planets were nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award as "Best New Artist." "Rebirth Of Slick" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Rap Duo Or Group." In 1993, Digable Planets redefined the potential of hip-hop with this truly refreshing and unique groove opus. Claiming themselves heirs to the "brothers from outer space" mantel adopted by Sun Ra and such acts as Parliament/Funkadelic before them, the Planets serve up a psychedelicised jazz/hip-hop concoction over which Doodlebug, Ladybug, and Butterfly roll their sophisticated, mellifluous rhymes. While jazz sampling had already reared its head in hip-hop, the Planets were the first to make it an aesthetic. Disembodied snippets of Sonny Rollins (on "Time and Space"), Art Blakey (on "Cool Like Dat," the record's hit single), and others flo... Minimize