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Digable Planets is a Grammy Award-winning American Alt Hip Hop group based in New York City, composed of Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (from Seattle), Craig "Doodlebug" Irving (from Philadelphia), and Mary Ann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira (from Washington, D.C.). They were backed by Silkworm, who later embarked on a solo career under the name King Britt.
Digable Planets' fusion of jazz and hip hop received excellent reviews and solid sales with the release of its debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), in 1993, which was certified gold by the RIAA. The album's lead single, "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," in 1994 became a crossover hit, peaking at #15 on Billboard magazine's singles chart, earning gold certification by the RIAA, and winning the Grammy award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
Its second album, Blowout Comb, was released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). The novelty of the group's jazz/hip-hop fusion had passed, leading to disappointing sales. The trio soon broke up due to creative differences, as well as the deaths of both of Ladybug's parents due to unrelated illnesses. However, a retrospective album Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles was released in 2005, which included unreleased recordings.
The Planets played at BB King's in Times Square, NYC on 10/8/2008 and announced that a new album would be released in 2008.
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I'm 47yrs old and I still play this joint.
“68 inches above sea level…..93 Million miles….above devils”! Rawest line in the word! Bug….killed that! Still listening…then til now…..2021
Her tone was so silky with real barz behind it
“68 inches above sea level…..93 Million miles above "these" devils.
I donˋt understand the meaning of it. Can somebody help me?
@@nickacelvn hi contchiecns'e in the is evil world.
Yes!
Who else got chills when Mecca started spitting?
Aaaaaaaah....WORD😁😁😁😁😁😁
💯💪🏽
I thought it was just me. Her voice is butter.
Why my guy never rep for Seattle. He from the town for real.
Play me in the winter, play in the summer, play me in the autumn, any order,
You want it I got it drippin like water....
Yooooooooooo that whole verse had me spinning grinning
Ladybug smooth as fuck on this track “Im 68 inches above sea level 93 million miles above these Devils! Play in the winter play me in the summer play me in the autumn ANY ORDER!” 🤎✨
I thought she was saying " ... play me in the AUTUMN, any order." Could be wrong.
@@DarrickBLee no it’s Autumn lol idk why that’s there let go edit that😂
Peace Queen!!
Pre Lauren ❤
Cold azz opening line bug killed it
So far ahead of their time. So underrated.
Hip hop in the 90’s just hit on another level!
Mecca, has the best voice in Hip Hop history
Butterfly too, even when he's just talking it sounds dope
Seriously man. This group is so underrated always has been I mean. Deserve way more cred
I'd say Andre 3000...but you're not far off.
She's so good! Check out how she sounds over a house track with Doggstar - Fred Everything remix
“Yes the Notorious, with rhymes so glorious, the Manchu monkey over flunkies is Victorious”
I have always loved that line
"93 million miles above these devils."
That's what's up!
The Sun
@@meyou5789 , you mean the Black man!
@@masterprophet8378 Peace! True indeed; The Asiatic Black man
@@99alfailiwaqain51 , indeed, sir!
Peace, black!
I came here just hear that part again...i had this single on tape in the 90's..with the remix on the b side , damn i miss my tape deck ..peace fam
Still get chills when she says "any order" such a dope MC.
💯^💯
I still listen to this album at least once a week
I thought it was just me that felt like that ANY ORDER
We played you.
Made you change.
Str8 New Yorked you. 🙌✊💯
Wow this video was filmed in Brooklyn NY before Gentrification. They even showed The Dean street train station on the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. It was real over there. I miss the old Brooklyn
before the invasion, no doubt! .. those my old stompin grounds .. BK Boy, ya heard!
You saw that too!😍😍
For realA...Pre-White Folks indeed...well and way before baguettes and Frappuccino’s...
Peace!!I remember catching the C and it was mad dangerous with Decepticons everywhere..
@@99alfailiwaqain51 Hell yeah. It was very dangerous over there. I knew people over there so was good lolololol
One of the heaviest beats ever. Can’t even count how many times my cousin and I listened to this song, and album, stoned out of our heads. Brilliant. The beats, the lyrics, and overall sound and vibes... Timeless. Love and Respect from NYCity. 🌿☪️🤲🌿
Raphael Fritzler That you cuz?
Those drums are bananas.
Jonas Polsky Those drums been stuck in my head bout 20 years. Lol closer to 30
For me personally this is hip hop perfected!
The bass is wild
@@the_KING_andthe_DUCK Same. I remember I had this tape when it first came out and played it, and all my friends were like, "yo what is that? Let me get a copy" Lol
That real jazz hip hop! Legendary
This track could kill covid.
🥾🥾🥾am goin kick u in the ass after..rollim me a J. N i dont even smoke.. jst playin
Hells yeah!!!
Facts
No doubt!
Man, this song popped in my head last night..I completely forgot about it and had to download it! The beat is incredible
One of the original treasures of Hip Hop
Ladybug Mecca... 💯💯🔥🔥
Hottest of all time is miss mecca.
Mad flow.
Hottest verse on the track . They all went hard . But ladybug japped
Her verse here is just fire.
Respect to you. And yuuup ladybug thee most fly
Im a rap music check its out 3rd bass and do music 3rd bass in 1990😀🎤
This group was way beyond their time.,Legendary😁😁😁😁
The Best. Didn’t realize in high school what an impact these cats would have on me (93). Ahead of their time and faded too soon. RESPECT.
Soundtrack to the summer between my sophomore and junior year. 1993. Who knew how lucky I was?! And I always thought I was unlucky! Lol. So lucky I got to see DP live.
Super underrated group! This how New York hip hop supposed to sound!
And the irony is that neither of them were from NY.
Their development from their debut album to blowout comb is unbelievable
This and "passin me by" are my 2 mos fav hip hop joints of all time
Facts
PMB fly as pie remix is my second favorite remix of all time, after ATCQ remix of scenario featuring LONS
Mecca straight KILLED her verse! This is still my fav DP song.
Best sampling of Love Rollercoaster I've ever heard.
Right and there’s so many and so many bad ones 😭
Super underrated group ! First 2 man 1 female group before fugees !! Super dope style delivery & pen game !! That 68 inches above sea level 98 miles above these devils line was a cold ass verse !
One of the most slept on albums!!!
How many million times have I heard this CD? Still not enough times!
Top 10 best of all time
Blowout Comb///// IMO, Probably Thee Most Underrated Album EVER,...... Ever, Ever,.... In the History of EVER!!
I have an 8 disc cd changer. Both of their albums have never left CD player.
I seen them in concert before all of this craziness started. They were just F-ing amazing.
My favorite Hip-Hop group. And yes, I'm happy to have them as my favorite at age 26.
Somebody raised you right! 👍💯😁👍
So so close for me between them ATCQ and Arrested Development.
27 over here
18 rn this might be my new favorite group or at least on the list. didn’t know they made the “cool like that” song, as soon as i heard it i got excited.
LADY BUG MECCA THO!!!! SHE GOES HARD...LOVE THE BEAT. CLASSIC
We played you, made you change, STRAIGHT NEW YORKED YOU.............she over killed the song!!!
Yes she does! Her opening line is dope!
Miss this Brooklyn.
The song is still sounds great 👍 and I'm glad I got a chance to see it performed in person at a show. Everybody was dancing to this y'all 😊
She came in sooooo smooth!!!🙌🏾💕🔥
BUTTERFLY 🦋
I miss their music! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank God I was raised in this golden era and Bklyn !!! East Flatbush !!
You and me both...[68’] East Flatbush...Tilden Ave...Early...
We both were blessed with being privy to REAL HIP-HOP Legends and Lyricists that we still bang and recite right here now in our 50’s...
👁️M FROM EAST 92& CLARKSON ✌️
Butterfly killed it!!
when I was a kid i used to BUMP this!! It STILL hits in 22.
I used to be in love with lady Mecca, she is such a smooth slick mc and she is gorgeous.
Maaaaaaaannnn that song is FIRE!!!! Best of Digable Planets
"I'm slicka this year, I'm slicka this year, Myrtle Av A-Train, got the pick in my hair"
Jeez this brings back memories. As soon as those drums dumped in I'm instantly taken back to rockin the fatigues with one leg up, yellow timbos, an Echo shirt (this was pre spelling change to Ecko) and some shoulder length dreds. Not enough people bring up Blowout Comb when speakin on Golden Age rap and that is a goddamn shame. Graffiti alone puts it in the discussion.
Some songs are like sound tracks to life.
Jazzy Joyce doesn't get enough credit for her get down on this one. Put her whole foot in this James Brown inspired beat. A classic from a classic album.
Jazzy Joyce
fatter than a 94 Land Cruiser! haha I always loved that line
It's been 20 years since this video and somehow Ladybug Mecca looks even better now.
I same the same exact thing. She forever fire
Glad she put some weight on
Straight New Yorked you!!! Luv it!! Luv ladybug
That hook still gives chills.
How do they not have 20 albums ...this is byfar one of the best groups ever both albums still make me feel goosebumps when I listen ..😊
That last verse just classic to me
2021 still 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That drums🔥🔥🔥
Still 🔥 #2021
The most underrated HIP HOP GROUP
This song was the first time I spent money on music ever. Bought the single on cassette in 1994 as a 7th grader
For me I was in 10th grade.
Digable's hardest hitting track IMO...so bass heavy and nasty.
we played you, made you change, straight New Yorked you! FIRE!!
From beginning to end. Straight 🔥!
This track, Blow Out Comb, and Digable themselves are just sooooo underrated and unsung.
(Personally, I think Blow Out Comb is one of the best albums ever made, hip-hop or otherwise)
Rob Weissman I consider it a masterpiece. This album oozes Hip Hop!
For Corners
Ahhh Creamy Spies
I agree it's a highly slept on classic, it takes the impactful intensity of a nation of millions and makes it this deep meditation on life and meaning
This group was so underrated.👌🏾
Hip hop staple. Those with thumbs down should never put hip hop/ rap to they ears ever again
One of my favorite jams to play on college radio! Peace!
I was in love with Ladybug as a kid, nothing better than a beautiful woman that can stimulate your mind. No fake booty, no fake breasts just a gorgeous woman with a beautiful mind.
Same here!
A few bars and she created two of the dopest hooks on separate tracks by two west coast legends.❤
May 2021 and still a banger
Late 94-I was 16 had this taped off radio. I admit I slept on this album after loving Reachin. This track is classic from the golden era
I AM 45 YEARS OLD I LOVE OLD School I Am OLD School ............
I’ll be 53 on the 21st. That’s ALL that I roll with in the Whip..” it’s the culture experience and lives in the DNA!!” “WE ARE TRUE SCHOOL!!”
Hip Hop At Its Finest
REAL HIP-HOP...Absolutely Indeed!!”
This track is sooo bklyn yoo, I remember hearing this as a young kid in the 90’s and was like this shit feels like the heartbeat of bklyn!
Crazy thing is they wasn't even from NY or Brooklyn. They represented something lovely though.
@@TheJeneralJU-ICE Yeah but they gave NYC a sound and we embrace them as being from the city. I grew up knowing them as being from Brooklyn they was representing hardcore 92-95
One from MD, one from PA and one from Seattle……..but damn, their sound and style is very NYC…..DP embraced NYC and NYC loved them back…..they will always get love from NYC, like they are one of our own.
This is where 9th Wonder the producer says he got is name from.
Yo word?? That's dope AF!! Didn't even know that! HIP HOP AT THE PEAK!!!
I thought that guy produced this track!
“You want it I, got em, drippin like water”. Smoooooooth asf
Real rap certified!
All three are dope but lady bug verse was sick!!!!
One of the best beats of the 90s
Not just the 90's. One of the best beats of all time!😁👍💯
This beat is hard af!! 🔥🔥🔥
Goddamn right
No flashing designer clothes nor jewels jus spitting jewels.
Still in love wit Jazzy Joyce after all this time
The style, wordplay, creativity & culture vibe in hip hop originates from the 5% nation. Knowledge born!
Love Rollercoaster sample!
This was before the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
I remember when my friend first heard this he said he wasn't feeling it. After like 3 weeks of me bumping it on repeat, in my car, he was like "man....wtf was I thinking. This shits dope af."
Those HARD AZZ marching band beats, smooth hard lyrics, strolling the NYC streets….the rest of the country just don’t know…..
Man I remember hearing Bug's verse! I grabbed my pen and paper and wrote down her entire rap so I could learn it.... rewinding my cassette tape over and over until I got it right! Digable Planets will ALWAYS be in rotation for me...
Damn I love the way mecca was kicking that shit so mf natural effortless flow
One of the greatest tunes EVER. The beats, the rhymes, the vid... superb!
Damn man, 26 years. I miss this era so much.
Chill and Smooth
BK NYC 90's I miss you 😘
as a kid the most awesome feelin was watching the video waiting for ladybug mecca, been years since i heard this track, still AWESOME
I miss this jam omg memories in East New York, Brooklyn.❤❤❤
Mecca ate this yoo! Love her
No
This was a bittersweet album! It was easily one of the best to drop in 94 and way surpassed the debut album. Unfortunately it was too soon for the masses to digest the switch in style and energy. I also believe that the "real heads" didn't take them seriously for the same reason. A brilliant body of work criminally slept on!!!!
I wish they released more material they were so dope
That slowed down Clyde Stubblefield loop sounds awesome.
Black motion is ocean style slick in my way since days of the real classic ,REAL HIP HOP ,sounds even better in 2015
Word...these rhymes aged like wine.
It is timeless , even better than the majority of modern hip hop, way a head its time!😎💥🔫
this joint thumps!!! that bassline is IT!!
Hypnotic hip hop beats.
True hip hop classic right here.
REAL rap!!!! - atomic beat! - my Brooklyn peeps! no doubt!
Mannn Digable Planets ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE HIP HOP CLICKS 💯🙌🏾
Lady Bug Mecca is so freaking dope! Always loved her!