Cherrywine is Digable, That's What I'm Talking About!
Digable Hip-Hop Wine in a New Bottle Audio Beef Today. Butterfly pours himself a tasty sip of Cherrywine.
'What I'm Talking About' by Cherrywine from their 2003 album Bright Black on Dcide Records / Baby Grande
Cherrywine is the solo project of Ishmael Butler, the Digable Planet formerly known as Butterfly. Spacey funk guitar (played by Butler) and a synth bassline make it clear that he has moved beyond Blue Note samples. He's still got that classic voice, clever lyrics and a butter (*cough*) smooth delivery.
This is the strongest track on the album, which is (unfortunately) hit and miss. I have to give Butterfly credit for continuing to explore, and I'm sure that he'll make an excellent contribution to the new Digable Planets album.
Choice Beef Quote:Got sex appeal, mass appeal, drug appeal
Guns Guns Guns! (For Real.. ?)
Hos do it for the cash
You might be a good crook, but your rap is trash
(Apologies for the protracted break in blogging.. the Red Sox and a janky new computer have been eating up all of my blogging time...)
Shouts out to Lucas, who loves Digable Planets even more than I do, and hipped me to Cherrywine.
Comments
You dig up the dopest shit... keep doin what you're doin.
BTW, what albums were those Daedelus tracks from? I might have to stop by the music shop after work and pick up a few new CDs.
Posted by: chris | October 25, 2004 12:12 AM
Hey, thanks!
Those Daedelus tracks are from "Equisite Corpse" which is currently only available from the merch booth on tour. They came to town recently and I lucked out and got it early. It'll be retail available in 2005 from Mush Records.
Welcome to The Beef!
=darwin
Posted by: Darwin | October 25, 2004 12:33 AM