The Rebirth of Slick Like My Gangsta Stroll
» Published by Ace Six
This tape was heavy in my walkman when it first dropped. Yeah I said it..cassette tape in a sony walkman bopping down the hallways in my high school on some “you clowns have no idea about the shit I’m on”. I went to a super-corny high school where I was one of the few people who really listened to hip-hop at the time. I think it might be time to download this album again and take it in since I forget every track except the singles and that one where Butterfly gets all pro-choice on that ass. Anyways, here’s a video of them performing on In Living Color during their heyday.
Ps. Butterfly later changed his name to Ish. Like really, can that be considered an upgrade? Go from being named after one of the softest insects to a short form of your real name which in slang terms is a piece of doodoo. No dis, I genuinely ride for Digable Planets on both of their albums. Just in retrospect, he had the softest name out the crew.
Pps. I saw Digable in concert in 2005/2006 and Ish had all new verses to the old tracks that were absolutely fire. He totally threw off all the concert goers who wanted to rap along with his verses since they were 100% different, but he has way more spit in him now. I was impressed and hoped that they’d have a new project out by now.
Ppps. Here’s audio of the only post-digable song I can think of that Ish is on. Swing aka the B-side of Luchini that no one ever plays(except Skratch Bastid and Dj Serious) even though it’s just as dope as Luchini.
July 30th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Why does doodlebug (the last guy) look exactly like BuBBles from The Wire??? haha
July 30th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
props.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I play Swing and you know it, Ace! -Bastid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZxYP4Fcfk
July 30th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
peep edit.
propers!
July 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Ouch. You’re showing your era with the commentary on this one, but there’s not a damn reason for being ashamed of liking Digable Planets. Blowout Comb speaks for itself. It should be on everyone’s top-ten list.
It was great seeing Butterfly in DC with Camp Lo a few months ago.
Thanks for the site.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:22 am
oh my god! i was thinking the same thing as frax, seriously, i was about to wiki bubbles, ha ha!
July 31st, 2008 at 3:01 am
Ish is easily one of the best producers that no one talks about and he just fell off the map after that Cherrywine debacle. I wonder if Coko (from SWV aka his son’s mom) cursed him.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:48 am
wow. really? I want to hear a 9th wonder-esque swv greatest hits remix album then!
I had no idea that was his baby momma.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
“Spell it with a ‘K’ and not with a ‘C’” - Kurious.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
sonned.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
C’mon, Ace.. I think more than TWO people play “Swing”. I mean, I actually had to chill on it cuz I was playing it too much, and I’ve heard tons of DJ’s playing it (no dis to Bastid or Serious), so not THAT underappreciated or slept-on…
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
I know. It was the rinse out of luchini at live at the bbq that is fresh in my mind. People know. My camp lo joint is park joint. A lil deodato action
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 am
These cats are the shit!! always been in my top 3. (peep j.lo behind Mecca when she performs)
August 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
digable definitely get slept on when people talk about talented groups from the 90s - i think one of the main reasons they were overlooked at the time was because during the 93 / 94 period that their albums dropped there were so many artists breaking through with brand new sounds and styles (wu-tang, black moon, snoop, nas, biggie, outkast etc) - digable got slapped with the “jazz rap” label by the media and perhaps people felt they’d heard it all before without maybe giving the group a proper chance.
in my humble opinion, digable’s 94 album “blowout comb” definitely deserves to sit alongside many of that year’s other standout releases.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:35 am
yeah, no one used to play SWING apart from your 2 friends. Just like none of us had Rae’s purple tape (the day it dropped) apart from ur friend. that said, nice site tho.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
this was a big tune in the UK at the time. latched onto the acid jazz movement at the time. also there was Brand New Heavies ‘Heavy Rhyme Experience’ that was a cool jazz rap collabo
September 7th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
yo peep the last lifesavas album “gutterfly” (2007 quannum records) for a CLASSIC Ish verse on “serpent’s love.” he also dropped a pretty classic few bars on an obscure pudgee the fat bastard 12inch in like ‘97.
thanks for posting this, takes me back. and “blowout comb” is top five or ten albums all time, imo.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I loved Cherrywine (so slept on)…I don’t think Ishmael’s done yet.
He’s one of those cats you always see walking around Seattle, btw….on some Mindbender ish lol!!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
i think j-lo is in tne crowd!!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
catch J-lo in the crowd bumpin
March 30th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Ish also guested on a track by 4Hero (british drum’n'bass/hardcore band)…
Don’t remember the name of the track though.