Digable Planets

- Albums: 2
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Active: 1992-1995, 2005-Present
- Origin: New York City
- Grammy Awards: 1

Digable Planets is a Grammy winning Hip-Hop group from New York City that broke ground in the early 1990s with their unique fusion of Jazz samples and Hip-Hop verses. Their debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) became a crossover hit in 1993 and spawned the Grammy winning single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)." While the band's second album Blowout Comb was critically praised, album sales were slow and eventually led to the band's breakup. The planets reunited in 2005 and continue to tour and perform.
Members
- Ishmael Butler - "Butterfly"
- Craig Irving - "Doodlebug"
- Mary Ann Vieira - "Ladybug Mecca"
Albums
- 1993: Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
- 1994: Blowout Comb

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- Blowout Comb - $16.98
  
  In 1993, the Digable Planets, a trio of New York MCs with happy insect monikers (Doodlebug, Butterfly, and Ladybug) and nonthreatening auras, created manna for the pseudo-beatnik c...
  
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- Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) - $11.98
  
  Digable Planets deliberately disavowed the toughness of hip-hop culture: the trio's leader called himself Butterfly, his foil Ladybug purred like Eartha Kitt, and they produced hoo...
  
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- Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles - $17.98
  
  It's not clear why they didn't just call this a "greatest hits" compilation since it so clearly is one. That said, it does a decent job of pulling out the best songs from the DP's ...
  
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- Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - $0.99
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- Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (2005 Digital Remaster) (Explicit) - $0.99
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