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 ...
Sometimes an album or two is enough. The Sex Pistols landed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame courtesy of just one release, “Never Mind the Bollocks.” Guns N’ Roses’ output, which earned the notorious ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 29: Digable Planets and The Roots perform onstage during the BET Experience - Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop ...
“You could have stayed home, listened to your Camp Lo/Digable Planets mixtape and had a chill Saturday night,” said Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving, “but you came out in the rain and fucked with us.” Far ...
Festivals like Ultra and III Points usually dominate Miami’s attention, but a road trip north lies a different world entirely. Since 2013, Hulaween has transformed the 800-acre Spirit of the Suwannee ...
Today in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn trio Digable Planets released their sophomore LP Blowout Comb. Serving as a more politically charged follow-up to their jazzy debut, Reachin’: A New Refutation of ...
Jazz has again begun to find its way into mainstream Hip-Hop. With the success of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, more artists have started to incorporate the classic brass and string jazz sound ...
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 ...
I always thought there was some alternate dimension where Digable Planets had the massive career of the Fugees. Both were 90s hip-hop trios made up of two men and a woman, and each released only two ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...