DAILY FIX: Digable Planets - Where I'm From (Remix) 1994

Posted by: Tony – Nov 07, 2009

There was a time when hip hop was expanding beyond the mean streets that defined its infancy. For a period of around 5 years, groups like Digable Planets had room to touch the mainstream with words that talked of their place in culture and what was possible as a people. This message was drowned out by the mid-nineties by the rise of gangster rap and its offspring which took the music back to self-reliance, materialism and the cold hustle.

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