Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and first of South Asian descent. Digable Planets performed with live musicians and showed audiences that there isn’t any box that hip-hip should fit in.
The interview features Craig Irwin, also known as Doodlebug, from the pioneering hip-hop trio Digable Planets. The conversation begins with a discussion about the group's influential debut single, ...
The Digable Planets didn’t have any grand scheme to introduce a radically new style of hip-hop when they dropped their seminal jazz-laced, funk-resurrecting debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of ...
Digable Planets reunites for four shows Friday and Saturday at Blue Note Hawaii. Lyrically, the three emcees spit their raps at a high level, making it impossible to choose a weak link. The mainstream ...
In the same 1990s gangsta rap era that birthed the likes of Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang, and Mobb Deep, a mild mannered trio called Digable Planets quietly emerged on the scene and, for a short time, burned ...
Out on February 23, 2018 via Light in the Attic, this marks the first time the album has been repressed on vinyl since 1993. The vinyl repressing will be expanded into a 2xLP and includes liner notes ...
These days, Ishmael Butler is very busy with his Seattle art-rock project Shabazz Palaces; he just released the new mini-album Exotic Birds Of Prey. But some of us know Butler better for his old group ...
In 1993, after scoring a crossover hit, selling a half million records and winning a Grammy, trio Digable Planets was dubbed by some as the next big thing in hip-hop. Two years later, it no longer ...
Digable Planets have announced a reissue of their debut record Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It’s out on February 23, 2018 via Light in the Attic.