Digable Planets
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Sep 25, 2026
Tonya MosleyGUEST
Yeah.
Jesse ThorneHOST
And Ishmael Butler, Butterfly from Digable Planets, which was like, you know, like in my, when I was 13, when the second Digable Planets album came out, Blow Out Calm, you know, I probably listened to it a thousand times in, you know, 250 days or something, you know? So, and it's also like, It's one that both hit me in my early adolescence and also...
Jesse ThorneHOST
held up, you know, like I liked pocket full of kryptonite by the spin doctors, but I would not be intimidated to meet the guy from the spin doctors.
Jesse ThorneHOST
Now I didn't like it the way that I like blow a comb to be fair, but like, uh, that was a different thing I liked when I was 12, but there's a short list of things that you love that way when you were 11 or 12, that you still feel totally the same way about as an adult, 35 years later, that was one of them.
Martin 2 SmooveGUEST
I'm Cool Like That by Digital Planets, is it?
Adam GowHOST
Digable Planets.
Martin 2 SmooveGUEST
D- Digable Plan- yeah, yeah.
Martin 2 SmooveGUEST
Uh, I love that song, and I just think, dude, that sounds so good even now, I think.
Adam GowHOST
I don't know if it was over here.
Martin 2 SmooveGUEST
Yeah.
Adam GowHOST
Um, I mean, Digable Planets' stuff has just aged really well.
Martin 2 SmooveGUEST
Really well.
Annika YoungHOST
David Belocchio is on the piano.
Annika YoungHOST
And on bass, a player named Alan Goldsher, who was out touring the world with Digable Planets.
Annika YoungHOST
And it's around that same time and who later quit music entirely, wrote 15 books and now ghost writes celebrity memoirs.
Annika YoungHOST
That's the guy playing underneath.
KoseyHOST
And what I think is more interesting than that conversation on if there's a historic record of people referring to it as jazz rap.
KoseyHOST
It's more so the ways that jazz has interlocked within hip-hop history and how that album, the Low End Theory and then Midnight Marauders, as albums that are heavily influenced by jazz, like Digable Planet's albums are heavily influenced by jazz, like some of De La Soul's eventual albums that would eventually be quite inspired by jazz, how those fit into the puzzle of hip-hop's history and where we are now in comparison to that, you know.
KoseyHOST
When you look at a Tribe Called Quest and you look at their experience, their expression of jazz and their experimentation with jazz, you then can, like, there is a direct parallel between that and, no, not direct parallel, there's a direct through line from them doing that to what mckinley dixon is now doing and i think that that is just quite interesting you know you you see the way that hip-hop and jazz begin begin expanding themselves together and then the place that they end up they end up going is one that is um not necessarily a straight line but is one that is easy to not necessarily easy to track but is trackable you know there's consistent jumps of um the implementation of jazz into hip-hop there's a consistent implementation of hip-hop into jazz you know there's a there's a kind of back and forth conversation between these two genres that i think is beautiful you see uh robert glasper i don't think he's the best guy ever i think he's he's pretty cool he's he's he's he i i don't want to get
Trey DoesHOST
into i don't want to get into i don't want to get into it but you see like his discussion on
Gary DannGUEST
Mitch Beer couldn't do one of the shows or one of the tours, so I hit up Jules, who I was working on some other music stuff with.
Gary DannGUEST
I was like, hey, man, can you like learn these like 20 Digable Planets classics that you've known since you were 13, you know, and they came out on, you know, and you want to go on tour? And he was like, hell yeah, he came on tour.
Gary DannGUEST
And then in the same conversation, I was like, hey, man, I'm thinking about, moving my recording studio situation out of my two-bedroom apartment where the clients have to walk through my living room to get to the studio in the back.
Gary DannGUEST
I was like, I want a more commercial studio, like a real thing.
Kylie Van HornHOST
[laughs]
Zoe RomeHOST
So if it was big at the same time Digable Planets was big-
Kylie Van HornHOST
[laughs]
Zoe RomeHOST
... it's safe.
KilHOST
And that was, like, the last, like, I think the last gasp for that jazz hip hop was that, that really that first Rebirth album.
KilHOST
I mean, that first Digable, because the second album, I know niggas who love it.
KilHOST
I, I, I thought it was a okay album.
KilHOST
I don't love it, but I know people who, like, die hard love that album.
Diallo RiddleHOST
[laughs] And by the way, we are skipping a lot of some of our favorite songs to sample.
Diallo RiddleHOST
And we're big fans of Digable Planets.
Diallo RiddleHOST
Go back and listen to Where I'm From.
Diallo RiddleHOST
You will hear, uh, this sample.
Luke BurbankHOST
Okay.
Luke BurbankHOST
The, the, uh, options for people who wanted to know is pill bug, doodlebug, which is, I believe a Digable Planets, um-
Andrew WalshHOST
Mm-hmm
Luke BurbankHOST
... uh, performer.
Mauricio RuizHOST
Right.
WalloGUEST
Digable Planet, they was them.
WalloGUEST
So when you look at that it's like it's much more easier to be you.
WalloGUEST
It's because now you don't have to have no pressure.
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