About this Event
Get ready for an unforgettable night of jazz-infused hip hop as Grammy Award-winning Digable Planets headlines this year's FREE Hip Hop 918 concert on Friday, September 25. The legendary trio brings its Blowout Comb 30th Anniversary Tour to Guthrie Green for an evening of groundbreaking music and hip hop culture.
Plus, enjoy an opening set by American rapper Murs.
The event begins at 6 p.m. with DJs and interactive activations throughout the Green, including
🎤 TMC Records - Young hip-hop artists take the stage for a large-scale student showcase
🎶 - Back-to-back performances by five of Tulsa's standout MCs
🕺 : "Journey Through Hip-Hop" - Five dancers move through the eras of hip-hop, combining choreography and street-dancing freestyle
🎨 Graffiti Battle - Trueson Daugherty hosts a live graffiti battle with cash prizes
💿 Turntable School - DJ Doc Free and additional DJs bring hands-on spinning and turntable education to the dock
🖌️ Community Mural - An interactive community wall that guests can help paint throughout the evening
🕺 B-Boy Exhibition - Live breaking on the splash pad from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
ABOUT DIGABLE PLANETS
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Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”. Made up of Ishmael Butler (“Butterfly”), Craig Irving (“Doodlebug”) and Mary Ann Vieira (“Ladybug Mecca”), the trio carved out a unique style of jazz-informed Hip Hop. Shortly after, Digable Planets followed up with their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time And Space), an ambitious offering that Pitchfork praised as “a world within a world, complete with its own language and monuments.” The group celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Reachin’ in 2023.
Melding jazz samples and complex rhymes that touched on everything from the nuances of city life (Where I’m From) to abortion rights (La Femme Fetal), Reachin’ was a rich and vibrant artistic statement as well as a huge commercial success (RIAA certified gold).
Digable Planets immediately followed up with Blowout Comb, a bold and colorful meditation on Black liberation. While the album did not initially reach the immediate commercial successes of Reachin’, the album has aged beautifully, influencing future generations of Hip Hop heads, young Jazz musicians and Afrofuturists. The trio spent the 2000s establishing their own individual creative voices with Butler’s Cherrywine and Shabazz Palaces projects, Mecca’s work with BROOKZILL! and Irving as “Cee Knowledge,” leading Cee Knowledge & The Cosmic Funk Orchestra.
In 2015, the group embarked upon a string of wildly successful live shows and has been very active as a tight touring unit ever since. In 2017, they released Digable Planets Live, a live album that showcases many gems from the group’s catalog as well as the trio’s skill at rocking the crowd with a live band. A pioneering act that continues to cast a wide-ranging, genre-bending influence, Digable Planets have left an indelible mark on music. More than 30 years after their debut, their music still shines, and the iconic group continues to bring their celebrated stage show to excited crowds around the world.
Event venue & nearby stays
Guthrie Green, 111 East Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, United States
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