“It's Good to Be Here” by Digable Planets

"It's Good to Be Here" comes off Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), the 1993 debut from alternative hip hop group Digable Planets on Pendulum/Elektra. All three MCs, Butterfly, Doodlebug and Ladybug Mecca, take lead vocals and share the lyric credit, and Butterfly, otherwise known as Ishmael Butler, produced and arranged it.

The album's sound leans hard on jazz samples, mostly because Butler dug into the records lying around him, a lot of them his dad's jazz, with DJ Premier's jazz-heavy sampling as a guiding light; he has said the whole "jazz group" idea was never really the plan. Even the title tips its hat twice, to a Jorge Luis Borges essay and to the old jazz habit of album names like Moanin' and Cookin'. The record has since been certified gold in the US.

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