Digable Planets

Acclaimed alternative hip-hop trio Digable Planets, comprised of Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira, Craig “Doodlebug” Irving and Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, have reunited and will perform a small run of live shows including an exclusive London date at Under the Bridge on November 23rd 2016.

The group’s debut album, 1993’s Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), featured the hit single ‘Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)’, which became a crossover Top 20 Billboard hit and won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Digable’s fusion of jazz with hip hop broadened hip hop’s reach and expanded its connection to music history, African American culture and the sounds of the streets. The trio’s second album Blowout Comb, released in late 1994, organically integrated soul, jazz and live instrumentation with political consciousness, mixed in with happy observations of everyday life. Both albums are proven hip-hop classics thriving on listeners’ abilities to relate, think, feel and be inspired.

After Blowout Comb, all three members of the group decided to pursue solo careers. Butler created, and is currently frontman for, Seattle based hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces with Tendai Maraire, and Irving founded the Philly based collective Cee Knowledge & the Cosmic Funk Orchestra.