PipemanRadio Interviews Digable Planets at Shaky Knees 2023

0:04 Hey, you love them too, such, sure, I'm come. I'm to see why for you. Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four CWY dot com West pom Beaches number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. Now sake that notice such, I'm actually about question stabbing out of Clouds snakes host to West Theso the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe MANW four c Y Radio and I'm here with Poodle, Bubby the Butterfly, Diggible Planets, Baby Nice. So I'm really excited that you're here at Shaky Needs because you know, you guys go way back, way way back, and not everybody here goes way back.

1:19 But I really kind of dig your sound because you got the hip hop going on, but you got the jazz going on too, which makes it, I think even better. So let's tell the listeners who haven't heard of you, which I find that hard to believe after all these years, a little bit about who you are. Yeah. So we we we all grew up really in the early days of rap listening to the early days of rap music, and we got a lot of influences from the producers and the rappers from the early eras and as rap started to branch out with sampling and everything like that, we got influenced by group like they Last Soul Trial called Quest NWA to get into the sampling, and we sampled like jazz, We sampled funk, We sample all of us sort of annals of history of black music, you know, and that was very important to us. And it was also the resources that was at hand that we had to draw from from our parents listening to music and stuff like that. So we just felt fortunate to be able to make music in an illustrious time in hip hop music and that's kind of our vibe. That's how we do it, and we were happy to still be doing it. It is kind of cool you're still doing right then, going way back, do you think you would have thought you'd be still doing today at shaking these? Well, I didn't think that far into the future at nineteen, to be honest, right, But you know, it's good to be here. It's good to be here now. It's good

2:52 to be loved and still you know, desired, you know, right, and yeah, it's a blessing. So how's it been here so far? Yeah, it's been amazing. The crowd is just beautiful faces, smiling dancings, you know, saying the lyrics along with us. The rain held up for us, which was that was good, because yeah, that's great. So it's it's been really nice. The lyrics thing. I want to focus on that for a second because I was talking about that earlier. I always think about what would feel like to be an artist and people are singing your lyrics back to you like that, Just that just has to be some feeling that. It's like unbelievable. It's like to me, it's like the ultimate form of validation. You know what I'm saying when the crowd of singing and music they really feel it, you know what I mean, because they don't do that for everybody. Now, I don't do that for everybody. No, that's big. Yeah I was a fan too. I'm a fan of music too. So I've been a conscience and I've sung along with people that I really was into and I just dug their whole vibe. And so when people sing it definitely puts a smile on face. There you go, sticing on the cake. So my first experience with hip hop was I was in like seventh grade, and my friend who was like a varsity football player.

4:14 I was friends with his brother, but he was a varsity football player in twelfth grade. He's like, you gotta listen to this, and it was sugar Hill Game. I was like, holy shit, that's some cool shit because there was nothing else like that at the time, you know, and then now you have like all the progression. My daughter, she's totally toy into hip hop. So I called her today, I'm like, do you know these guys? Because she's not old enough to really maybe know, so she's like, I heard of them, I don't really know him. I'm like, well, you better start listening to them, because they are good. They're a lot better than old people you're listening to. I don't know her favorite is, but I know for a while she was really into plies.

4:59 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she got some flavor on. Yeah, that's good. She lives at Okay, so we live in Florida. I'm originally from New York and New Jersey, but we lived in Florida and she was at applied show once to West Palm Beach and she called me up and afterwards she's like, yeah, I had to I had to jut out of there because there were shots in the parking lot, and I'm like, why is that going on? You know, like music is supposed to bring us all together, you know, and why why is that stuff going on? You know? And it's good to see people like you that. You know, I've been around a long time and know what the music is all about. And it's not about that. It's about feeling good, being a family and being all one people. And that's what I think you guys do. I think music evokes all types of emotions out of people, you know what I'm saying. Sometimes it's violent, sometimes it's love, it's all you know, all things in between, you know what I'm saying. So sometimes things like that happen, you know what I'm saying. I mean, they've been mad parties and I've seen stuff like that happened. It happens.

6:01 But I've been to some mad ones too, And you know, I'm a metal head, so I've been mashed, yeah, no doubt. Like And I used to I Live I'm Left Jersey in nineteen eighty and went to LA and I was on the sunset strip for that whole metal scene and it was pretty crazy back then. And the punk scene and all that. But yeah, you're right, it doesn't voke emotions. And I think that's where music's needed more than ever today in two thousand and three, because I think that two years without live music made a bunch of angry people, because it's therapy. It's a release, right, you know, like you as an artist or getting stuff out of you, and us as the listeners are relating to that and getting our stuff out like the mosh bit. That's what it means to me is I'm getting my aggression out there instead of on somebody's face, you know, And that's the way it goes. So we got going on after Shaky Nie actually on a nice little run through some southern states like North Carolina. We got another show here in Atlanta, were touching Saint Louis and also Memphis in Nashville. So we get into some historic places where the ghosts of a lot of people that rock before us is there, and we're gonna like tap into that, you know, we're trying out like a new set of music. So there's always that sort of like jumping off a cliff, you know what I mean, and getting into taking some chances out there.

7:30 And that's always fun and we're looking forward to it. Man, And drive around we're in the van, get to see the countryside and it's really cool. Man. Yeah, you know what, trying out the new music. I gotta give you guys props because that's brave when you've been around as long as you have. Because what happens to a lot of people They go to concerts of these old school bands and it's like they don't want to hear the new stuff. They want to hear the old stuff. But you, as an artist, you won't play new stuff. You don't want to be stuck in nineteen eighty seven. Been there, done that, you know. Yeah, So I dig that you're making new music and doing exploring. I also think that when you as you get older, you have more to add to the music. You know, you're angst teenager making music. That's a little different than when you're like forties fifties making music. That's right, you know, So, what's this new music gonna be? Like? You want to give us a little hint, Well, I think it's gonna be like an honest look at you know, your life up until this point. Yeah, because it's like, no matter what, you're still here. You're still making music, you still with the people that you was with before. So it's really no shame into anything that went on before. It's really pride to really get into it and explore it. And this is an expressive art form.

8:52 So it's like like you said, you go to the to the metal show, you want to get it in, you want to you want to get the little ruckets inside the marsh pit and with rapids it's not like that as physically, but mentally and emotionally you can. You can let go of a lot of things and express a lot of things. So yeah, I think optimumly, that's what new music is all about. Getting to that, touching that And does it blow your mind that in two twenty three you could talk about the same shit you could talk about in nineteen eighty seven, because the same crap is going on, like in so many different ways kind of because we were raised by people that really try to affect change and put their life and their bodies on the line to affect change. And you know, for us to become you know, their their generation that follow them and still dealing with the same type of shit that they was trying to change. It's disheartening, but you know, this is a system that we live in in this place, and the system wants to survive and keep doing this thing. So it's always gonna be a fight. But we take it on, you know, we take it on just like our people did. I love it.

10:00 Now, I have a trivia question for you guys, since I'm a metal head, which hip hop artist is really actually a metal head and has a metal band? And I have moshed in their shows? Dingo, she got it. There's one of a million dollars from his personal bank account. Yeah right, thanks fight man. And it's funny too because I've hung with him and he's like, man, this is my shit, you know, so so so he he's really into it. Huh oh, totally. Like he's been into bands like Slayer since before he was a rapper, no doubt you know in this band, yes, and she probably knows the body count been around forever, but most people didn't know, you know. And like it's funny because when he first started doing they wanted him to sing, and he's like, man, I can't sing, I rap I can't sing, but he does it and they're they're pretty crazy, like his guitarist Price I was at a gig, jumped off the stage and broke his leg and kept playing.

11:05 Nah, that's an artist. He jumped off the stage, broke his leg and kept playing. Yo, that's rock and roll boy. But now that's metal. Now that's metal, right, dude, that's that's that's amazing. Would you know, but shout out I see. I wouldn't. I would not do that. I'm going straight to the hospital. But shout out, I see man, I see the legend. Man. What's cool nowadays too, that I like is we are blending genres nowadays. I think while I was younger, maybe for you guys too, it was like you're kind of snobby about your genre. You can't you can't like anything else. And like I remember Mataucha Star getting big. I'm like, they're a bunch of fucking posers, man, Like they're on the radio. They're posers, you know. And what's cool now is like I do coverage of all these festivals and all the metal festivals always have hip hop artists, and the metal heads love it, Like because met on hip hop and punk all that say it's from the same consciousness. Yeah, you know that people, that's countercultural.

12:09 You know what I mean against the against the man. You know what, Absolutely, it's the same gig here, it's the same gig, just a different chord on the qatar. Yeah. So where the jazz influence come from? Because I like that part. I mean, you know, when we was growing up, we all had people in our lives that love jazz because that was their pop music. Yea. So they always presented it to us like these are the cool guys. We would see their pictures and hear their songs and hear about their lives, and so they were like it was lord to us. You feel me. Yeah, So we always you know, look to them for inspiration to emulate, you know, style and aesthetics.

12:52 So that's where it came from. Really, And you know, that's a great answer because the bottom line is, I think all music has influences from all other music, and it is all tied together, and it should be tied together. People like try to separate, but just like human beings, we shouldn't be separated. We're united. It doesn't matter what kind of music. It makes you feel good, it makes you get It's the best therapy. I think, like, if if I'm in a bad mood, I'm turning on music. I'm going a lot. You can't be a live show and being bad mood, It's impossible. When's the last time he was in the moss pit? Though? Keep it real, well the last festival, Like it's real. I've had two heart attacks and I'm still in the pit.

13:39 I still go in the pit. So that this is my first festival of twenty twenty three, because you know it's the off season. But I would say November was the last time, and I'll be in presuple of weeks, a couple of weeks. I'm going well from the Rockville in a couple of weeks. Yeah, no doubt. Like it makes you feel live and still again, here's a lot of stuff to be pissed off about right now. I put it in the pit. You know, that's where my That's where my anger and frustration goes. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials, on the net, get your music, buy your merch, check your tour dates, all that good stuff. You can check us out on. Our official website is ww dot official diggable planets dot com.

14:28 Instagram is official diggable Planets. No no, no, it's at planets is at planets Diggable and on Twitter it's at diggable Planets. So just look up diggle Planets on any social media page you go to and you should find us. You know what I'm saying, Beautiful, Well, you guys are badass. And thank you for being here at Shaking Needs, and thank you for being on the Adventurous Pipe Man. Thank you for listening to the adventures of Pipeman on w for See You Light Radio.