“You could have stayed home, listened to your Camp Lo/Digable Planets mixtape and had a chill Saturday night,” said Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving, “but you came out in the rain and fucked with us.” Far ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Grammy-winning hip-hop trio Digable Planets headlines the Jazz & Blossoms Park Jam this Sunday in D.C. WTOP caught up with co-founder Craig “Doodlebug” Irving ahead of the outdoor concert in Franklin ...

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 ...

Land of Talk‘s 2006 debut EP, Applause Cheer Boo Hiss, has just gotten an expanded reissue which adds three songs to its original seven, and then includes a bonus disc of acoustic versions of the ...

John Morrison was 10 years old when he started making beats on his Casio RZ-1, the same drum machine sampler that Prince Paul used to produce for De La Soul’s landmark 3 Feet High and Rising. Three ...