Where is digable planets members

And it worked for them. With a more alternative, soulful sound, the performers known as Butterfly, Doodlebug and Ladybug Mecca won a Grammy for best rap performance by a duo or group. And now, Digable Planets are back together for their first tour since The group, which performs Aug. In the face of that, this very energetic, passionate, unstoppable force was being created that would end up being everything that it is now, but at the time it was kind of rap against the world.

Originality was the thing that got you on. With that being the atmosphere it was a bunch of different shit that was coming out. Back then you could tell a North Philly cat from a South Philly cat by the way they walked, talked, dressed. It was like cultural utopia. And it was consciousness and art. It was just like being alive during a renaissance. It was magical. IB: They basically paved the way for the notions and the energy that made hip-hop possible by determining their own destinies and feeling like that was the only thing that mattered.

We came along and we enjoyed the fruits of that. One of the fruits of that was the notion that self-expression was our domain and we deserved it and it was incumbent upon us to exercise those freedoms and rights that they had fought for in some way. And look what you got… hip-hop that came along and rearranged the world.

Out of that time came Shabazz Palaces. My friend in the group, he heard what I was doing around and he was like you should put this out.

IB: All kinds. I signed one hip-hop artist from Seattle, Porter Ray , a dope lyricist. Another brother out of Jacksonville, Florida, named Yuno. You had to be committed to getting a record heard. When I got a deal I was literally going to the offices and sitting in the front at the reception desk. You had to finesse your way into get heard.

IB: I like it. After Blowout Comb , Digable Planets basically dissolved due to the dreaded "creative differences". All three continued making music separately, but despite many promises that the recordings would become actual releases, nearly a decade passed before releases appeared from Butterfly 's Cherrywine project, Ladybug's new billing Ladybug Mecca, and Doodlebug's Cee Knowledge.

Then, just a few weeks shy of the ten-year anniversary of Blowout Comb , the three announced that they had reunited to record their third Digable Planets album. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

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