Watch Digable Planets Perform “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” On Tamron Hall

These days, Ishmael Butler is very busy with his Seattle art-rock project Shabazz Palaces; he just released the new mini-album Exotic Birds Of Prey . But some of us know Butler better for his old group. In the early ’90s, Butler was better known as Butterfly, one third of the wonderful, inventive Brooklyn jazz-rap trio Digable Planets. They were to rap what key be to lock.

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