February 9, 2023
Digable Planets Drop Debut Album Reachin’ – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] 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 day, in 1993, the New York-based rap trio released a visionary amalgam of jazz and hip-hop with their classic debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space).Digable Planets consists of Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Craig "Doodlebug" Irving and Mariana "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira (also DJ Jazzy Joyce who joined the group in 1994). The three artists met as students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and began developing their sound with poetry and music in 1991. After submitting...