As Digable Planets celebrate 30 years of Blowout Comb with a performance at EFG Jazz Festival in London, they spoke with The Guardian about the reluctance of their record label, Pendulum to promote the album. “I was ready to step it up,” said group front man Butterfly,' who was inspired by Pink Flyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. “Not the music, but its fluidity. I wanted to make an odyssey of a record.” Doodlebug described the album as “about the pain and joy of being Black in America”.

“We wanted to let people know we still from the hood, that we never forgot about our people," Doodlebug said further. Speaking of the crossover audience that the Grammy winning trio amassed on their debut, Reaching, Doodlebug says that the label was afraid that the new project might alienate that audience. “They wanted another 'Rebirth of Slick'," he said, speaking of their gargantuan debut single. “When they heard how belligerent it was, how funky, they felt they couldn’t market it to the mainstream, ie white people. They felt it might offend them, make them uncomfortable.”