Legendary Philadelphia, PA-formed jazz rap trio Digable Planets (composed of MCs Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Mariana "Ladybug ...

Shabazz Palaces has been announced as the opener of both of Radiohead‘s upcoming shows at Shrine Auditorium in LA. The Seattle-based project of Ishmael Butler, aka Butterfly of Digable Planets, will ...

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 ...

Digable Planets said their New Year’s Eve show in Seattle would be the first of a few reunion shows, which then led to announced festival appearances at Sasquatch and Pitchfork. They’ve now announced ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I’ve long had this fascination and curiosity about Digable Planets, the ...

Digable Planets, the hip-hop trio most notable for its 1993 Grammy-winning single, "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," performed at the Marin County Fair at San Rafael's Marin Center on Sunday evening ...

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 ...

Hip-hop with a thoughtful vibe and a jazzy bent seemed like it was going to be more than an underground movement in the 1990s, with vibrant and important recordings made by acts including Tribe Called ...

Early 1990’s Hip-Hop collective Digable Planets have announced that they have reunited and are working on a new album. Butterfly, Doodlebug (Cee Knowledge) and Ladybug Ms. Mecca formed the group in ...

I’ve long had this fascination and curiosity about Digable Planets, the ‘90s-era rap group made up of Butterfly aka Ish, Ladybug Mecca aka Mecca and Doodlebug aka C-Knowledge, that gave us one of ...