Each member was already active on local rap scenes: Butler was workshopping Planets, pretending he was a group on his demo, Irving was booking shows around Howard University and rapping in another Tongues-inspired group called Dread Poet Society, and Vieira was in a dance crew that backed up rap acts when they came to town. The group formed through chance encounters in 1987, as if by kismet. They turned Karl Marx, Sonny Rollins, and Parliament into pillars of their cool, communal space.
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Reachin’ tested the limits of hip-hop alchemy, creating otherworldly transmissions that sampled hard-bopping jazz acts. Linking from varying backgrounds, the three Planets MCs-Ishmael Butler, Craig Irving, and Mary Ann Vieira-sought to embody the inclusivity their forebears had brought to rap. How fitting, then, that intuition and a kiss of luck would birth their first jazz rap odyssey, 1993’s Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), which is both a product of community and exploration.ĭigable Planets followed in the conscious footsteps of the ’90s New York collective Native Tongues-spearheaded by A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, and De La Soul-which was cultivating a more positive-minded, jazz-influenced rap community. Freedom, progressivism, oneness, harmony, and serendipity are the core tenets that would come to define the rap trio and their ideology throughout their career.
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Seconds into any Digable Planets’ song and you’ll hear it: the Afrofuturism of Sun Ra, the unorthodox free jazz of Albert Ayler, the black spirituality of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, the spoken-word funk of the Last Poets.