Ladybug
Mecca
Album: Trip the Light Fantastic
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Label: Nu Paradigm
Review:
In early 1993, the full glare
of the spotlight shone on an unassuming young woman from Washington, D.C.: Mary
Ann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira, and her rhyming partners Ishmael "Butterfly"
Butler and Craig "Doodlebug" Irving. As Digable Planets, they constructed
a unique melding of streetwise hip-hop with ultra-cool jazz loops and solos.
Their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was an instant
success and included the Top 20 single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).
This track scored the trio a Grammy and is considered one of the most influential
12 inches in Hip Hop history. In just two short years Digable Planets had built
a world wide fan base that craved their sophisticated sound. As swiftly as the
trio had burst onto the scene they disappeared from it, as rap music veered
in a gangsta direction. Although it has been over a decade since Ladybug Mecca
has been out of the musical eye, music has never left her life.
| Tracklisting: 1. Dark Matter 2. Don’t Disturb the Peace 3. Children Say 4. Ladybug Come Outside 5. Show the World 6. Mr. Mayor 7. Dogg Starr 8. Leaving It All Behind 9. Sexual Alchemy 10. Centre of Nowhere 11. Please Don’t 12. Last Train (featuring Martin Luther) 13. Sweet & Polite 14. Suicidethol 15. You Never Get Over It 16. Remember When? 17. Oh Poor You 18. Step Up Wise |
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