“You may remember her soft-as-silk flow during her days with Digable Planets, when “Rebirth of Slick” (Cool Like Dat) was a favorite during Hip Hop’s zenith. Ladybug Mecca has been in the process of ...

Hip-hop lovers know Ladybug Mecca as one-third of the short-lived Digable Planets, which released two albums, "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" in 1993 and "Blowout Comb," its follow-up ...

"Rip it ’til dawn, flip it ’til dawn. Hip Hop is the fix, or else we be gone" Ladybug Mecca, "Where I’m From" The mid-90’s saw a great change in Hip Hop as we knew it. Trading in Adidas for Timbs, and ...

Together, Prince Paul, Ladybug Mecca, Don Newkirk and Rodrigo Brandão are BROOKZILL! (“Brooklyn meets Brazil”), and they recently revealed that their debut album Throwback to the Future will be out ...

It has been 21 years since Digable Planets—the distinctive ’90s jazz-rap trio—broke up after releasing two critically acclaimed studio albums and winning a Grammy for “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) ...

Childlike wonder swarms around Ladybug Mecca’s solo debut, Trip the Light Fantastic, as she skips from genre to genre and her voice flutters between singing and rapping. With each recollection of ...

Best known for their 1993 hit "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," alternative rap group Digable Planets has announced plans for a reunion tour starting with the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington ...

Digable Planets, the Brooklyn crew whose jazz-influenced hip-hop scored no shortage of critical accolades in the ’90s, is set to reunite for a tour and new album, their first since 1994’s Blowout Comb ...

It was the summer of 1992, and Ladybug Mecca, Butterfly, and Doodlebug—collectively known as Digable Planets—were recording their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), commuting ...

There are hardly any active rappers/producers who’ve been successful in different eras, but Seattle’s Ishmael Butler is one of them. His old trio Digable Planets won a Grammy back in 1994 for their ...

When one has released an album with the title “Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space),” it goes without saying that the concept of a linear progression of days, months and years may not hold ...