The Digable Planets didn’t have any grand scheme to introduce a radically new style of hip-hop when they dropped their seminal jazz-laced, funk-resurrecting debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of ...

Thirty years ago, three outer-space insects crashed down on Earth to “resurrect the funk” — or so goes the story on Digable Planets’ Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), one of the most ...

The interview features Craig Irwin, also known as Doodlebug, from the pioneering hip-hop trio Digable Planets. The conversation begins with a discussion about the group's influential debut single, ...

"Blowing Down" "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" "The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug" "Jettin' " When Digable Planets released "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" in ...