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Digable Planets (/ ˈ d ɪ ɡ ə b əl ˈ p l æ n ə t s /) is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987. The trio is composed of rappers Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Mariana "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira, and Craig "Doodlebug" Irving. [2] The group is notable for their contributions to the subgenres of jazz rap and alternative hip hop.
Trip The Light Fantastic is the solo debut album from Ladybug Mecca, a member from hip-hop group Digable Planets.The album was released June 2005 on the indie label Nu Paradigm [1] and features production by jazz musician Brian Jackson, who had also toured with Digable Planets. [2]
Blowout was a natural expansion of what Digable Planets were reaching for in the first place, but shallow ears got lost". [5] Ishmael Butler then changed his group-name from Butterfly to "Ish", Mary Ann Vieira changed her group-name from Ladybug to "Mecca", and Craig Irving changed his group-name from Doodlebug to "C-Know". [5]
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 ...
Digable Planets' 1992 single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" achieved commercial and critical success, charting on the Billboard Hot 100. Known for merging hip hop with jazz and philosophical lyrics, [6] the group released two albums before disbanding in the mid-1990s. Following Digable Planets' demise, Butler recorded music under the alias ...
The album was produced by Digable Planets' Ishmael Butler ("Butterfly") and features raps from Butler, Irving and Viera. [3] The production leans heavily on jazz samples, Butler explaining that "it was all about resources, really...I just went and got the records that I had around me. And a lot of those were my dad's shit, which was lots of jazz.
The Ladybugs, an American jazz band "Lady Bug", a song by Breaking Benjamin on the 2004 EP, So Cold; Ladybug, a.k.a. Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the female titular character of the French television series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir; Ladybug Mecca, a member of the rap group Digable Planets; Ladybug (comics), a DC Comics superhero
It features E-40, MC Eiht, Goldie Loc and Tha Dogg Pound (Daz Dillinger and Kurupt), and Ladybug on the chorus. The song title and sample come from Ladybug Mecca's vocals on Digable Planets's "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)". "Candy" refers to a high gloss paint finish applied to automobiles.