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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.
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- Albums: 2
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Active: 1992-1995, 2005-Present
- Origin: New York City
- Grammy Awards: 1
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Official Site: Digable Planets
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Music Video: "Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
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Official Site: Ladybug, Doodlebug and Butterfly
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News: "Digable Planets Reunite" (2004)
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Buy Albums: Reachin and Blowout Comb
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to all my peeps you can also check me out on facebook at doodlebug digable planets...i wanna thank all da fans in st louis dat showed love!!
@ceeknowledge | November 10, 2009 07:59 AM -
Slip Inn listening to digable planets and Dilla on some @FreshLikeSeanP stuff. Oh shoot now its gangstar. It took a while to tweet this.
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@itweetny yo buh remember digable planets it's good to be here... That's our shit... #musicmonday
@merioUCR | November 10, 2009 04:43 AM -
#sixwordstories digable planets: never "cool like dat" @zo3tic lol
@B1355R0K | November 10, 2009 04:21 AM -
Get on it.. Tues nite we play the abbey w/ Digable Planets.. Cool like dat
@BOOMJUICE | November 10, 2009 04:04 AM
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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 crowd. On Reachin': A New Refutation of Time and Space...
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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 hooks out of lines like "We're just babies, man." Despite occas...
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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 two mid-90s albums (though one should ask: can a two-album g...
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