why is shock g and DU so underrated and unnapreciated?

[whoisthis]

DU was out of the spotlight when the West Coast really blew up in 93-94. That contributes to why they're underrated. I don't think they're unappreciated though.

[Sir Petey]

thats not really true, digital underground were touring world wide a lot off the success of their own gold albums and their appearance on pacs i get around kept them buzzin for a while and then shock g went on to co produce me against the world.


it seemed like when pac cut his affiliation w DU and the westcoast shifted its whole attention to gangster shit was when alot of the more light hearted non violent groups and shit started to kind of fade off.

heiro and them, del, freestlye fellow ship, pharcyde etc. they all had a lane once everything shifted to a costal situation it seems like they got lost in the shuffle. west coast band signed to east coast label etc.

then coupled with shock gs substance abuse issues...


i still feel like out of all the artists that experimented with g funk i feel shock g and digital underground were probably the best representation of the spirit of p funk.

[Sccit]

shock combined more jazz elements into the music, so though there was a lot of funk, it was never the primary focus- more of an eclectic thing with digital underground, if anything. i'd say they were probably the best representation of all music elements combined into rap. jazz, blues, funk, even rock.....but the best representation of straight funk has to go to dre or hutch, since that was their focus in their heyday.

[Sir Petey]

shock combined more jazz elements into the music, so though there was a lot of funk, it was never the primary focus- more of an eclectic thing with digital underground, if anything. i'd say they were probably the best representation of all music elements combined into rap. jazz, blues, funk, even rock.....but the best representation of straight funk has to go to dre or hutch, since that was their focus in their heyday.

im sorry famo thats not true. if you heard sex packets i figured youd be hip to this album...its whole theme was them being passed the torch from members of parliament funkadelic




this was one of the first rap groups to be recognized by george clinton before the g funk thing was in effect or dre was admitting to smoking reefer and on his obsession with pfunk. sex packets came out in like 89 and it had a strong presence of pfunk influence (underwater funk etc) shock didnt get real jazzy with it till his later works


but they did incorperate a little bit of everything thats what i loved. sex packets had fuckadelic samples and prince samples and jimi hendrix samples etc.

[Hack Wilson - real]

sons of the p >

[Sir Petey]

you dont see the comparison between sir nose dvoid of funk and humpty?

[Sccit]

shock combined more jazz elements into the music, so though there was a lot of funk, it was never the primary focus- more of an eclectic thing with digital underground, if anything. i'd say they were probably the best representation of all music elements combined into rap. jazz, blues, funk, even rock.....but the best representation of straight funk has to go to dre or hutch, since that was their focus in their heyday.

im sorry famo thats not true. if you heard sex packets i figured youd be hip to this album...its whole theme was them being passed the torch from members of parliament funkadelic




this was one of the first rap groups to be recognized by george clinton before the g funk thing was in effect or dre was admitting to smoking reefer and on his obsession with pfunk. sex packets came out in like 89 and it had a strong presence of pfunk influence (underwater funk etc) shock didnt get real jazzy with it till his later works


but they did incorperate a little bit of everything thats what i loved. sex packets had fuckadelic samples and prince samples and jimi hendrix samples etc.

yea thats a great album...but what im sayin is that their focus was incorporating all musics into rap, not just funk ala dre and hutch, so u cant really give em the crown for that


and sex packets was actually a very jazzy album, brobro

[Sir Petey]

it is jazzy but i think while you might have embraced what hutch and them were doing the originators of the movement were embracing digital underground. like "yall are the chosen ones" most casual dr dre fans still dont who the fuck ATL is sadly and recognize the chronic the emergence  of that genre. what im saying was digital underground were the first ones to do it and pay homage correctly, doing shit like having clinton on their albums rather then stealing a 8 sec sample and not properly crediting etc. they actually were trying to further the p funk as a genre


george clinton and them didnt give a good goddamn about gfunk till they started cashin g checks.

[Sccit]

Actually george has gone on record to say he loved what dre n em was doin... But I get what u sayin, digital underground worked closer to george at first.

[MarshColin]

I went to see E-40 back in 2005 and he was opening for Digital Underground. E-40's performance kinda sucked but Digital Underground blew me away. Shock was playing live keyboards and all that. I definitely wanna see them live again before I die.

[Fraxxx]

very true.  i think shock g was a bad leader when it came to promotion.  he turned down tons of commercials that would have made DU a lot more popular...money b said it pissed him off when shock turned down a Sprite ad without telling the rest of the group

Seems like a good move. Don't support the machine.

[Sir Petey]

very true.  i think shock g was a bad leader when it came to promotion.  he turned down tons of commercials that would have made DU a lot more popular...money b said it pissed him off when shock turned down a Sprite ad without telling the rest of the group

Seems like a good move. Don't support the machine.

hell yeah lets see where this stagnant thing takes us lol

[MUHFUKKA]

ive seen shock g in concert but never got into digital undergeound