“The Humpty Dance” is the second single from Digital Underground’s first album, Sex Packets. Shock G produced the thick whirling beat using three samples of songs by Sly and The Family Stone and Parliament plus a kick drum, snares, bass, guitar, and hi-hats. George Clinton’s Sirnosedevoidofunk alter ego inspired ShockContinue Reading
Los Angeles, CA – Digital Underground co-founder and drummer, Jimi “Chopmaster J” Dright, is paying tribute to his former bandmate and D.U. co-founder, Gregory Edward Jacobs, better known worldwide as Shock G aka Humpty Hump, on the one-year anniversary of his passing, April 22. DUNxG (DU Next Generation), spearheaded by Dright’sContinue Reading
Los Angeles, CA – When Digital Underground co-founder and drummer Jimi “Chopmaster J†Dright learned that the City of Oakland would honor his former band and recently deceased front man and co-founder Greg “Shock G/Humpty Hump†Jacobs with a proclamation to recognize the group’s civic and artistic contribution, he was initially elated. However, upon learning heContinue Reading
2Pac ‘s”I Get Around” was another collaboration with the Digital Underground camp. The second single from his Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. 1993 sophomore album was all about the fun in being a player. They had already worked together on Digital Underground’s “Same Song” which was on the soundtrack for theContinue Reading