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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.
Shabazz Palaces is an American hip hop group from Seattle led by Ishmael Butler a.k.a. Palaceer Lazaro (formerly Butterfly of jazz rap group Digable Planets).Much of Butler's work as Shabazz Palaces has been made in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Tendai "Baba" Maraire, son of mbira master Dumisani Maraire.
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 ...
Britt also performed at the 1993 Grammy Awards with Digable Planets, the year Digable Planets won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1994, Britt and Josh Wink started the label Ovum Recordings. Their first release was a collaboration between King and spoken word artist Ursula Rucker, called "Supernatural". The song ...
"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" is a song by American hip hop trio Digable Planets, released as the first single from their debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), in November 1992. The black-and-white music video was directed by Morgan Lawley. [1]
Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once. Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 ...
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.
As we mentioned before, this planet parade is not going to include all the planets, like in Hercules. But there will be six planets in the planetary parade happening this week.