A few months after Digable Planets entered the ranks of popular music with their single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" in 1993, the trio (Ishmael “Butter Fly” Butler, Craig “Doodlebug” Irving, and Mariana “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira) released, their hit debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space). A year later they made a quantum leap with their second and final album, Blowout Comb. Now, a quantum leap is like quantum tunneling: very much like you running into a wall and inexplicably finding yourself not in pain but unscathed and on the other side of it. This does happen. And it all comes down to probability. Digable Planet’s Blowout Comb was, in hiphop terms, a kind of tunneling. Why?

The trio’s first album was, without a doubt, good. But one could not compare it to, say, A

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