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Digital Underground The Humpty Dance Video Screenshot

“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

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Chopmaster J

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

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Chopmaster J Digital Underground

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

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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

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