Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 29: Digable Planets and The Roots perform onstage during the BET Experience - Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop ...

Jazz has again begun to find its way into mainstream Hip-Hop. With the success of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, more artists have started to incorporate the classic brass and string jazz sound ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Source: Getty Images/Illustration by Aisha Yousaf for Yahoo) The Digable Planets didn’t have any grand scheme to introduce a ...

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 ...

Recently, Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY teamed up to create a really special podcast called One Song. On each episode, LUXXURY, Riddle and sometimes a guest deep dive into one song from pop music. They ...

Barack Obama's latest summer playlist includes artists from Nigeria, Portugal, Puerto Rico and a few from right here in Philadelphia. The former president recommended 44 tracks in his newest roundup, ...

Three decades in, hip-hop group, Digable Planets are still cool like that. The Grammy-winning bunch will be performing their iconic sounds at the Miami Beach Bandshell Friday and taking their ...

Sometimes an album or two is enough. The Sex Pistols landed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame courtesy of just one release, “Never Mind the Bollocks.” Guns N’ Roses’ output, which earned the notorious ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I’ve long had this fascination and curiosity about Digable Planets, the ...

Canonball is a segment that takes a closer look at albums that should be considered classics. This time around, Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY of the... Why Digable Planets' Blowout Comb is one of the ...