Shock G AKA Humpty Hump passes away at 57.
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Damn another great one gone too soon
He was a unique architect with a vision of making great music he was part of the foundation of giving us great vibes in lyrics to dances there so many memories and moments to choose from I can't believe he has now gone the greatness of a dream that stays timeless.A Legend that Priceless relatable Everything u made stays within our minds and hearts across the world wishing u peace and love especially to the family who lost a great mind a father, a dream be in peace in paradise playing on the big stage in heaven
Rest In Paradise Salute to u are missed Your Legacy is Forever In Engrained In Greatness
He was a unique architect with a vision of making great music he was part of the foundation of giving us great vibes in lyrics to dances there so many memories and moments to choose from I can't believe he has now gone the greatness of a dream that stays timeless.A Legend that Priceless relatable Everything u made stays within our minds and hearts across the world wishing u peace and love especially to the family who lost a great mind a father, a dream be in peace in paradise playing on the big stage in heaven
Rest In Paradise Salute to u are missed Your Legacy is Forever In Engrained In Greatness
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Digital Underground's Shock G Dead at 57
Gregory Jacobs, the charismatic, affable Digital Underground rapper who performed as Shock G and Humpty Hump, has died at the age of 57.
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Digital Underground’s Shock G Dead at 57
Visionary rapper-producer co-produced 2Pac while creating the indelible “Humpty Dance” as Humpty Hump
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Gregory Jacobs, the charismatic, affable Digital Underground rapper-producer who performed as Shock G and Humpty Hump, died Thursday at the age of 57. Jacobs’ father confirmed the musician’s death to TMZ, though a cause of death remains unknown.
“34 years ago almost to the day we had a wild idea we can be a hip-hop band and take on the world through it all the dream became a reality and the reality became a nightmare for some,” Digital Underground’s Chopmaster J wrote on Instagram. “And now he’s awaken from the fame long live shock G Aka Humpty Hump and Rest In Peace my Brotha Greg Jacobs!!! #digitalunderground.”
Over the course of six albums — most notably 1990’s Sex Packets and 1991’s Sons of the P — Digital Underground expanded on Parliament-Funkadelic’s bouncy, elastic funk and outlandish, occasionally goofy stage personas and costumes to become a singular hip-hop group. While the group went through numerous lineup changes over the years, Jacobs, who co-founded the collective, always remained at the center before disbanding the group in 2008. He assumed various identities, but none more famous than Humpty Hump, the fur-wearing braggadocious rapper whose “Humpty Dance” remains a paragon of classic hip-hop more than 30 years later.
A hip-hop renaissance man, Jacobs designed the artwork for many of Digital Underground’s albums (as Rackadelic) and played drums and piano (the latter credited on albums as “The Piano Man”). He was just as instrumental behind the scenes, producing (and appearing on) Tupac Shakur’s breakthrough song “I Get Around” and 1995’s “So Many Tears,” among others, and bringing a young Shakur into Digital Underground. Months before the release of his debut album 2pacalypse Now, Shakur made his mesmerizing debut on Digital Underground’s “Same Song.”
As detailed in a 2017 Rolling Stone article, Shakur worked as a roadie for the group while Jacobs and his manager shopped the group’s demo. Digital Underground would give Tupac his first tour alongside Big Daddy Kane, his first released verse with “Same Song” and his first movie role in 1991’s Nothing but Trouble. (Jacobs produced and appeared on Shakur’s 1993 breakthrough hit “I Get Around.”) ““He was on TNT Records [with us] for four years,” Jacobs told Rolling Stone. “He was with Death Row for nine months. So do the math.”
“I remember when NWA’s road manager Atron [Gregory] said he had a group called Digital Underground,” Ice Cube wrote on Twitter. “He played DOWHATCHALIKE video & I went crazy. I had to sample [Digital Underground] on JACKIN FOR BEATS and WHO’S THE MACK. And nobody had a better stage show. A true Bay Area original.”
Born on August 25th, 1963, Jacobs spent his formative years moving around with his family. He began his musical pursuits early on as a drummer, before hip-hop became his mainstay while the nascent art form was still underground in the Seventies. He dropped out of high school and formed a DJ crew that performed around town, which led to a job as a part-time on-air DJ as a teenager. After he was let go from that gig, he backpacked around the country. During his explorations, he expanded his musical interests into playing the keyboard and piano. He eventually settled down to get his diploma and went to college to study music.
In 1987, Jacobs and Chopmaster J (whose real name is Jimi Dright Jr.) formed Digital Underground and dropped the single “Underwater Rimes.” Two years later, they signed to Tommy Boy and had expanded to include DJ Fuze, Money-B, and Shmoovy-Shmoov. The group’s 1990 debut album, Sex Packets, housed their biggest song to date, “The Humpty Dance.” A perennial classic in its own right, the song — including Jacobs’ distinctive, nasally voice — would go on to be sampled by dozens of subsequent rappers and producers.
“Each individual has his own set of influences, from Jimi Hendrix to Erroll Garner via George Clinton, from hip-hop to doo-wop, from Jazz and R&B to funk and rock,” Jacobs said in 1989. “Sometimes we’ll combine any two, three or more styles and sometimes we’ll stick to just one. It depends on whoever is getting involved in the track. There’s often plenty of different things happening in our songs, but that doesn’t mean we’re not into the idea of doing a simple rap over a basic beat. We like doing real straight stuff, real hardcore stuff too.”
Digital Underground’s 1991 This Is an E.P. Release featured Shakur, and they followed it up with their sophomore album, Sons of the P later that year. The album went gold, along with its single “Kiss You Back.” They released four more albums — 1993’s The Body-Hat Syndrome, 1996’s Future Rhythm and 1998’s Who Got the Gravy? and 2008’s ..Cuz A D.U. Party Don’t Stop! Jacobs released his only solo album, Fear of a Mixed Planet, in 2004.
In addition to his Digital Underground output, Jacobs also made many TV appearances, appearing in the film Nothing But Trouble with Dan Aykroyd, providing a voiceover for his character in the 2017 Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me and appearing in several music documentaries. Beyond his helming of Shakur’s “I Get Around,” “So Many Tears” and co-producing 2Pacalypse Now, he produced Luniz’s 1995 Operation Stackola, mixed Prince’s 1998 “Love Sign” from Crystal Ball and featured on Murs’ 2003 single “Risky Business.” He also toured and performed with George Clinton and P Funk, including a set at Woodstock 1999.
“Oh No, Not Shock G (and his alter ego Humpty Hump),” Bootsy Collins tweeted. “He helped keep P Funk Alive! He is responsible for Digital Underground’s ‘The Humpty Dance’, 2Pac’s breakthrough single ‘I Get Around,’ and co-producer of 2Pac’s debut album 2Pacalypse Now. Prayers to family & friends. Dang.”
R.I.p
Shit....was blissfully offline for 6 hours and come back to see this....
R.I.P......shit, I'm typing that wayyyy too often!
R.I.P......shit, I'm typing that wayyyy too often!
Damn Rest In Peace to the one that put the satin on ya panties... been a rough year for hip hop
Not fake, brotha... and he likely knew it was his time to go.
Another ritualistic killing by the numbers courtesy of the cabalists
Not fake, brotha... and he likely knew it was his time to go.
Another ritualistic killing by the numbers courtesy of the cabalists
Hate to say it.. but you on to something... Dam...this hurts...RiP... Brother Shock
R.I.P. Shock G. You brought much joy to many in so many ways. True entertainer.
Damn. This one hurt my soul. R.I.P.
This came out of no fuckin where ...
Was this bruh sick or something...
He was proof how versatile and alive hip hop was..
Today this legend would be an underground artist..
Because the industry has a goal to fill up jails...
The same rappers rapping about trapping to YOUR
Children
Will be sending their children to private school..
This bruh was gonw way before his time..
His pops is burying him..
It's not supposed to be that way...
Hey he lived a good life and still lives
Through his music...
Heaven gonna be bump in the humpty dance all weekend
Was this bruh sick or something...
He was proof how versatile and alive hip hop was..
Today this legend would be an underground artist..
Because the industry has a goal to fill up jails...
The same rappers rapping about trapping to YOUR
Children
Will be sending their children to private school..
This bruh was gonw way before his time..
His pops is burying him..
It's not supposed to be that way...
Hey he lived a good life and still lives
Through his music...
Heaven gonna be bump in the humpty dance all weekend
I'm hurt right now.... This one really hurts
Y'all don't even know man
I was a KID he was like rap Santa
Humpty and Shock G were 2 different people to me until I got old enough to realize they were the same person.
And then you find out he was actually THREE PEOPLE
He was " Piano Man"
The dude that I assumed was in the band---cause they were a true rap band
it was HIM Shock G
A visionary Genius
The talent. Find someone that can manipulate a sample like him when he was doing it
Like making disco records FUNKY
(Freaks of the industry samples Donna Summer Love To Love You Baby )
The other people I feel bad for and have fond memories of I get it and I respect it
This one... Dowhatchulike came on my playlist the other day and I said OK summer is near!
and now this.
I was a KID he was like rap Santa
Humpty and Shock G were 2 different people to me until I got old enough to realize they were the same person.
And then you find out he was actually THREE PEOPLE
He was " Piano Man"
The dude that I assumed was in the band---cause they were a true rap band
it was HIM Shock G
A visionary Genius
The talent. Find someone that can manipulate a sample like him when he was doing it
Like making disco records FUNKY
(Freaks of the industry samples Donna Summer Love To Love You Baby )
The other people I feel bad for and have fond memories of I get it and I respect it
This one... Dowhatchulike came on my playlist the other day and I said OK summer is near!
and now this.
He dropped a song about consent in 1991
Don't talk to me about a genius if they ain't doing shit 30 years in advance.
(Yes Kiss you back is a song all about consent. )
Don't talk to me about a genius if they ain't doing shit 30 years in advance.
(Yes Kiss you back is a song all about consent. )
This here is my JOINT.
Maaan this is rough. Rest in Power to a uniquely talented Brother taken way too soon.
Remembering this when it first aired:
Shock waz a senior citizen though. Once you reach 55 you're a senior.
Dude grew up in Tampa I did t know that. Flkrida in this mutha!
thought thst too up until 8 years ago rip
I remember C&H bringing this joint unmixed str8 from the studio when Shock produced it. We sat in the driveway at Joe the Boss Bohannon cut spot in the alphabets. We listened to it over & over out of C&H green Benz. Smoking some of Mendocino's finest. Before the Luniz cut the major single I got 5. We all knew that day that them boys was gone blow, because Shock blessed them with that funk. Momentum is a muthafucka ..
An integral part of Oakland/bay area hip hop, Shock G.
An integral part of Oakland/bay area hip hop, Shock G.
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