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Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat). Made up of Ishmael Butler (Butterfly), Craig Irving (Doodlebug) and Mary Ann Vieira (Ladybug Mecca), the trio carved out a unique style of jazz-informed Hip Hop. Shortly after, Digable Planets followed up with their debut album, Reachin (A New Refutation of Time And Space), an ambitious offering that Pitchfork praised as a world within a world, complete with its own language and monuments. The group celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Reachin in 2023.Melding Jazz samples, and complex rhymes that touched on everything from the nuances of city life (Where Im From) to abortion rights (La Femme Fetal), Reachin was a rich and vibrant artistic statement as well as a huge commercial success (RIAA certified gold). Digable Planets immediately followed up with Blowout Comb, a bold and colorful meditation on Black liberation. While the album did not initially reach the immediate commercial successes of Reachin, the album has aged beautifully, influencing future generations of Hip Hop heads, young Jazz musicians and Afrofuturists. The trio spent the 2000s establishing their own individual creative voices with Butlers Cherrywine and Shabazz Palaces projects, Meccas workwith BROOKZILL! and Irving as Cee Knowledge leading Cee Knowledge s catalog as well as the trios skill at rocking the crowd with a live band. A pioneering act that continues to cast a wide-ranging, genre-bending influence, Digable Planets have left an indelible mark on music. More than 30 years after their debut, their music still shines, and the iconic group continues to bring their celebrated stage show to excited crowds around the world.
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