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...Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum). Combining upscale jazz and proletarian hip hop, Digable Planets has brought two sides of the black experience together, uniting buppies and b-boys from Howard University to Howard Beach...
...union of hip-hop and jazz has gone from oddity to commodity in just one year. In 1993 the rap trio Digable Planets released its jazzy, idiosyncratic debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space); since then the record has sold more than 500,000 copies and won a Grammy as well as two naacp Image Awards, and other jazz-rap bands, like US 3, have followed in Planets' wake. Meanwhile, some of the most respected musicians in jazz -- from Harvard summa cum laude saxophonist Joshua Redman to veteran trumpeter Lester Bowie -- have recorded songs combining jazz with...
...move in again. Bam. Bam. Bam. I hit him five times. He hits me one time. I back away. I'm moving around him. Bim. Bim. Bim. I get him again. He's movin' in, ain't reaching me because he's too small to reach me. He's reachin' and strainin' with those hooks, and they're getting longer and longer. And now he's lunging and jumping, and that's when I started popping and smoking. I'm looking for the opening, lookin' and pickin' and then I see it. Now I'm sprinting, but I'm sprinting...
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