Diallo Riddle is a writer and actor who worked on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, appeared on Silicon Valley and co-created the criminally underrated comedy series South Side. Blake "LUXXURY" Robin is a ...
Today in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn trio Digable Planets released their sophomore LP Blowout Comb. Serving as a more politically charged follow-up to their jazzy debut, Reachin’: A New Refutation of ...
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 ...
Jazz has again begun to find its way into mainstream Hip-Hop. With the success of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, more artists have started to incorporate the classic brass and string jazz sound ...
On this day, Digable Planets released their beloved second album, Blowout Comb. Also, two Houston legends Scarface and Bun B dropped two great projects as well. Check it out below. 1991: Insane Clown ...
Thanks to the brainy backpack-rap explosion they did as much as anyone to ignite, Digable Planets’ two studio albums no longer sound as ground-breaking as they once did. But they still sound pretty ...
Digable Planets are hitting the road to celebrate their seminal 1993 debut. On Wednesday (May 31), the legendary East Coast trio announced their upcoming Reachin 30th Anniversary Tour,’ which begins ...
The psychedelic, jazzy, swooned-out trio Digable Planets sailed onto the Gothic Theatre’s stage on Tuesday evening, one stop on their twenty-date reunion tour this summer. As fans will painfully ...
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 ...
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 ...
The post Digable Planets Perform “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” on Tamron Hall: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Digable Planets will forever be cool — a point they proved by performing their ...