Digable Planets' Ishmael Butler Reaches Back To '93

All this week we’ve been talking about the music of the summer of 1993 – chart toppers, watershed moments, and a few underdog albums. Today, we hear from someone who spent that summer waiting on the release of what would be a hit record: Ishmael Butler, founding member of the jazz-inspired hip-hop trio Digable Planets.

Digable Planets' debut album Reachin (A New Refutation of Time and Space) came out in September of 1993, yielded a Top 20 hit, was praised by critics as a rap milestone, and soon earned the group a Grammy.

Butler looks back with Soundcheck host John Schaefer at Reachin', shares what he was listening to during that summer of '93, and tells us what's in store for Shabazz Palaces.