Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Digable Planets — the Brooklyn-based rap trio of Butterfly, Ladybug Mecca ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Source: Getty Images/Illustration by Aisha Yousaf for Yahoo) The Digable Planets didn’t have any grand scheme to introduce a ...

Jazz has once again found its way into mainstream Hip-Hop. With the success of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, more artists have begun incorporating classic brass and string jazz elements into ...

Digable Planets at House of Vans in 2017 (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Watch Digable Planets’ video for Reachin’ single “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” and Shabazz Palaces’ video for “Shine A Light” ...

Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on Orlando news, culture, and events. Get our free daily newsletter. At a turbulent time in the 1990s when hip-hop was flexing its cultural ...

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 ...

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but each arrived in the city from elsewhere. Butterfly floated in from Seattle, playing basketball at U Mass-Amherst en route. Doodlebug and Ladybug Mecca from Howard University, and the flourishing ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 9, 1993: Digable Planets were among a new wave of rap artists integrating jazz and hip-hop into their repertoire. Thirty years ago, on this ...

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 ...