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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Connection => Topic started by: U.N.T.O.U.C.H.A.B.L.E. on April 22, 2021, 06:15:16 PM
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Sadly he has passed :'( God's cleaning up this earth trust the plan people it's meant to be sadly
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R.I.P. Shock G
A great performer and underrated as a producer.
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Damn. DMX, Black Rob and now Shock G. R.I.P. :(
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this 1 hits hard n really came outa nowhere
i don’t think most people realize what a genius this man was as a musician and just an overall character in hip-hop.....
truly an inspiration and larger than life icon
RIP TO A GOAT
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Damn! Rip
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Horrible news.
I was just talking to my mom the other day about how my grandmother believed the rumor about Humpty getting in an accident back in the day.
I've heard "The Humpty Dance" all over the place this year. TV shows, commercials, etc. It was nice to see Digital Underground getting some mainstream love.
Not just a Bay Legend. Not just a west coast legend, but a true Hip-Hop Legend.
Gregory "Shock G" Jacobs will be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhEO3WM_t6I
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RIP... one of the legends of the West and 2pac mentor...
What did he die of? These days when I see all about someone dying and they don’t mention the cause — straightaway I wonder if he recently took the vaxx
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Damn. RIP. Bad month for hip hop
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Damn. DMX, Black Rob and now Shock G. R.I.P. :(
And SmoothOne from Tha Rella and Young Flow from G-Hood
https://youtu.be/djwBRjp3aYQ
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Rest in Peace... :'(
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RIP... one of the legends of the West and 2pac mentor...
What did he die of? These days when I see all about someone dying and they don’t mention the cause — straightaway I wonder if he recently took the vaxx
I really want to know this too. This is a very legit question! He probably died out of nothing from one or more vaccines he recently took, just like DMX. >:( :( :'(
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R.I.P.
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wow...R.I.P
too many legends dying these days :'(
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/2021/04/22/rapper-shock-g-of-digital-underground-found-dead-in-tampa/%3foutputType=amp
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Check the stickied topic up top http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php/topic,337732.msg3146508.html
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Its 1996 in here, all the time. Shock G is in his prime. Whatever are you talking about?
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Damn, death really does come in threes......RIP Shock G :'(
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Damn, death really does come in threes......RIP Shock G :'(
Because they were murdered by the vaccine. No tinfoil, just facts.
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Not Humpty too :(
Shock G, co-founder of hip-hop group Digital Underground, dies aged 57
Rapper scored a US hit with raunchy single The Humpty Dance, and produced some of 2Pac’s early work
US rapper Shock G, who as co-founder of Digital Underground was one of the most colourful figures in the early hip-hop scene, has died aged 57.
According to TMZ, he was found in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida, though no cause of death has yet been ascertained. His co-founder Chopmaster J wrote on Instagram: “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 … long live Shock G AKA Humpty Hump and Rest In Peace my Brotha.”
Shock G was born Greg Jacobs in 1963 in New York, where he returned after a childhood spell in Tampa to attend high school – he learned to be a DJ amid the city’s nascent hip-hop scene. On returning to Florida, having also learned piano, he shuttled between solo gigs and groups as a young man.
His next move was to California, eventually settling in Oakland where he formed Digital Underground in with his Florida collaborator and DJ Kenny K (Kenneth Waters), and producer and drummer Chopmaster J (Jimi Dright Jr). They scored a minor early hit with Doowutchyalike in 1989 after signing to Tommy Boy records.
The group had their biggest hit the following year: The Humpty Dance, with Jacobs going by the lascivious, hilarious, nasal alter ego Humpty Hump (“pronounced with a umpty”), making raunchy sexual promises amid lurid food metaphors. It reached No 11 in the US singles chart, with the album Sex Packets reaching No 24.
The group released five further albums. The 1991 EP, This Is an EP Release, also went Top 30, and is notable for featuring the first credited appearance of Tupac Shakur – he rapped the final verse of the track Same Song, and appeared in the track’s video.
Jacobs and Shakur, as 2Pac, continued to collaborate, with Jacobs producing his breakthrough track I Get Around as well as two tracks from his 1991 debut, 2Pacalypse Now: Tha Lunatic and Words of Wisdom. Jacobs also produced So Many Tears from the 1995 album Me Against the World.
He also produced work for the rappers Murs, Luniz and KRS-One, and for Prince, with the song Love Sign. He released a solo album, Fear of a Mixed Planet, in 2004.
Tributes have been paid by Bootsy Collins, who credited Jacobs with continuing the style of funk Collins began with the group Parliament-Funkadelic: “Oh No, Not Shock G (and his alter ego Humpty Hump). He helped keep P Funk Alive!”
El-P, from the group Run the Jewels, said Jacobs was the “coolest, most down to earth icon/hero of mine i’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. a kind and pure musical genius.” Rapper Immortal Technique called him “a pioneer and an innovator”. The singer, instrumentalist and Prince collaborator Sheila E said: “You did so much for the bay [area] once u created Digital Underground. We honor u and we will miss u.”
Shock G, Frontman for Hip-Hop Group Digital Underground, Dies at 57
The group had a string of hits in the 1990s, including “The Humpty Dance,” and helped introduce a little-known rapper named Tupac Shakur.
Gregory Edward Jacobs, known as Shock G, the frontman for the influential hip-hop group Digital Underground, was found dead on Thursday at a hotel in Tampa, Fla. He was 57.
His death was confirmed by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which did not provide a cause.
Digital Underground had a string of hits in the early 1990s and introduced its audience to a little-known rapper named Tupac Shakur. The group’s name sounded like “a band of outlaws from a cyberpunk novel,” with a sound that “straddles the line between reality and fantasy, between silliness and social commentary,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. “Digital Underground is where Parliament left off,” Shock G said at the time, referring to the groundbreaking George Clinton band.
Shock G had been shuttling from his home in Tampa to Northern California in 1987 when the group made a self-released single, “Underwater Rimes.” That helped get the attention of Tommy Boy Records, which released Digital Underground’s first album, “Sex Packets.” It sold a million copies and featured the hit single “The Humpty Dance.”
The album stood out for melding funk and jazz riffs on top of catchy drumbeats. And with Shock G’s lanky frame and toothy grin, the group had a visual aesthetic ripe for the dawn of the music video generation. Shock G, who produced music in addition to rapping, was known for spinning different personas, depending on his surroundings.
In the video for “The Humpty Dance,” Shock G took on the persona of Humpty Hump, the title character, donning a pair of dark-rimmed glasses with an obviously fake nose, a fur hat and tie. “I’m sick wit dis, straight gangsta mack/But sometimes I get ridiculous,” he raps on the song. “I’ll eat up all your crackers and your licorice/Hey yo fat girl, come here — are ya ticklish?” Part of the hook for the song: “Do the Humpty Hump, come on and do the Humpty Hump.”
Shock G can be seen in a similar outfit, both goofy and suave, in the video for the group’s song, “Doowutchyalike,” where he encouraged listeners to let loose and enjoy themselves as a saxophone gently riffs over the beat.
Shock G’s most lasting impact on hip-hop and music may have come when the group released the hit “Same Song,” which was Mr. Shakur’s “first vocal appearance on a song,” according to Genius.com. Shock G, who appears first on the song, once again cast himself as the good-time host. “I came for the party to get naughty, get my rocks on/Eat popcorn, watch you move your body to the pop song.”
When it was Mr. Shakur’s turn, he quickly unleashed a thoughtful verse about the dangers of success: “Get some fame, people change.”
Mr. Shakur had auditioned for Shock G and was hired to be a member of the group’s road crew. He eventually performed and recorded with Digital Underground, appearing on the group’s “This Is an EP Release” (Tommy Boy), and “Sons of the P” (Tommy Boy), which was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In 1991, Mr. Shakur started a solo recording career with the album “2Pacalypse Now” (Interscope), which sold half a million copies. It included two modest hits, “Trapped” and “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” a song about an unwed teenage mother’s plight. Before the album was released, he also started a career as a movie actor, playing the violent, unpredictable Bishop in the Ernest Dickerson film “Juice.”
By 1993, Mr. Shakur was a rising star. Shock G and another Digital Underground member, Money B, appeared on Mr. Shakur’s album, helping create his first major hit, “I Get Around,” a poolside anthem with scantily clad women and a laid-back beat. But now, it was Shock G, sporting an Afro and oversized purple T-shirt, with the message: “Now you can tell from my everyday fits I ain’t rich/So cease and desist with them tricks/I’m just another Black man caught up in the mix/Tryna make a dollar out of 15 cents.”
Shock G’s musical instincts were forged by a childhood spent moving around the country. His mother worked as a television producer and his father worked as an executive in computer management. After the couple divorced, “I spent my biggest chunk of time in Tampa but I also lived in New York, Philly and California,” Shock G had told The Times. “I have always been into music and played in bands starting when I was 10 or 11.”
His grandmother, Gloria Ali, was a pianist and cabaret singer in Harlem in the 1950s. She taught him how to play “Round Midnight” on the piano. Then, as hip-hop began to gain traction in New York in the late 1970s, Shock G, who was living there at the time, recalled, “All of my friends and I sold our instruments to buy mixers and turntables.”
Shock G, who was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 25, 1963, is survived by his father, Edward Racker, his mother, Shirley Kraft, his sister, Elizabeth Racker, and his brother, Kent Racker.
Shock G saw music as expansive, inclusive and experimental. “Funk can be rock, funk can be jazz and funk can be soul,” he told The Times. “Most people have a checklist of what makes a good pop song: it has to be three minutes long, it must have a repeatable chorus and it must have a catchy hook. That’s what makes music stale. We say ‘Do what feels good.’ If you like it for three minutes, then you’ll love it for 30.”
Shock G, ‘Humpty Hump’ of Digital Underground, Dies at 57
Shock G, producer and frontman of the 1990s hip-hop group Digital Underground and widely known for his alter-ego “Humpty Hump,” has died, according to a statement from his family. The artist, whose real name was Gregory Jacobs, was 57; no cause of death has been confirmed.
“Our son, brother and friend, Gregory Jacobs, also known as Shock G, suddenly passed away today,” his family wrote in a statement. “The cause of death is currently unknown. We truly, truly appreciate all the outpouring of love and concern. Please keep us in your prayers at this very difficult time.”
Via hits like “The Humpy Dance,” Digital Underground were leaders of the Bay Area hip-hop scene of the late ‘80s and early 1990s. But their catalog also marked the recorded debut of Tupac Shakur, who was briefly a member of the group before the release of his 1991 solo album. He is featured on “Same Song” from the “This Is an EP Release” EP.
Chopmaster J wrote: “34 years ago almost to the day we had a wild idea: We can be a hip hop band and take on the world,” he captioned an old photo of Shock G. “Through it all the dream became a reality and the reality became a nightmare for some. And now he’s awaken from the fame. Long live Shock G, aka Humpty Hump. And Rest In Peace my Brotha, Greg Jacobs!!!”
Born in Brooklyn, Jacobs bounced between New York and Tampa, Florida, as a child. An acolyte of both funk and early hip-hop, Jacobs had a brief stint as a radio DJ while still in high school, and developed a proficiency with a variety of instruments – keyboard, turntables, drums – during an itinerant young adulthood which saw him drift across the country working odd jobs. Returning home to Tampa, he studied music theory at community college, and eventually moved west to Oakland, Calif.
It was there that Shock G and Chopmaster J formed Digital Underground with Kenny K in the late 1980s. The group broke through in 1989 with singles “Doowhutchyalike” and “The Humpty Dance,” the video for which featured Shock G in his Humpty guise, adopting a blubbery, cartoonish voice and performing with a fake nose and glasses. Humpty was merely one of Shock G’s multiple on-record alter-egos, though he was so fully developed that many of the group’s early listeners were unaware that Shock G and Humpty Hump were the same person.
While Parliament-Funkadelic would be sampled countless times during hip-hop’s golden era, few hip-hop outfits embodied George Clinton’s extraterrestrial strangeness and cracked humor as thoroughly as Digital Underground. With outré costumes, bizarre sci-fi concepts and an elaborate stage show, the group combined serious musical chops with a deeply unserious worldview, and their debut full-length, 1990’s loose concept album “Sex Packets,” was very much of a piece with De La Soul’s “3 Feet High and Rising” and the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique” from the previous year – three hip-hop records whose freewheeling humor initially obscured just how musically innovative and adventurous they were. Largely on the strength of the two Humpty singles, “Sex Packets” went platinum, and its success saw the group make appearances on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” “Drexell’s Class,” and the Chevy Chase-Demi Moore comedy “Nothing But Trouble.”
Digital Underground never equaled the success of “Sex Packets,” though their second release, “This Is Not an EP Release,” would have just as firm a place in the history books for featuring the first appearance of a young Tupac Shakur. Initially joining the group as a dancer and roadie, Shakur notched his first appearance on record with the final verse of Digital Underground’s “Same Song.” Though his time with the group was short, Shakur would call on Shock G to produce and perform on tracks throughout his early solo career, including his first major hit, “I Get Around.”
Digital Underground’s second full-length, “Sons of the P,” met with less success, and while the group continued into the ‘00s, its moment had largely passed. The group’s most recent release, a live album, dropped in 2008. However, Shock G was extremely active as a producer, working with Dr. Dre, Bobby Brown, Luniz, Murs and others, as well as touring with his hero George Clinton.
Shock G, who got his own dance as Humpty Hump in rap group Digital Underground, dies at 57
Shock G, the rapper, songwriter and producer who helped take hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early 1990s with “The Humpty Dance” by his Oakland-based group Digital Underground, has died, according to an Instagram post by his former bandmate Chopmaster J.
The rapper, born Gregory Jacobs, was found dead Thursday in a hotel room in Tampa, Fla., TMZ reported, attributing the news to Jacobs’ father, who didn’t state a cause. He was 57.
Performing as his alter ego Humpty Hump — “pronounced with a ‘umpty,’” as he advised in the song — Shock G struck a proudly comic pose in “The Humpty Dance,” bragging with exaggerated style about his skinny frame and his sexual prowess (“I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”) as he encouraged listeners to follow his lead in the titular dance, which he called “your chance to do the hump.”
Built on prominent samples of tunes by Parliament and Sly & the Family Stone, “The Humpty Dance” topped Billboard’s rap singles chart for five weeks in 1990 and went to No. 11 on the all-genre Hot 100, where it was surrounded by hits such as Madonna’s “Vogue,” MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and “This Old Heart of Mine” by Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley. The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for rap performance by a duo or group.
“The Humpty Dance’s” success was driven in part by its music video, a staple of early-’90s MTV in which Shock G wore his trademark prosthetic nose and in which a young Tupac Shakur can be seen as one of Digital Underground’s backup dancers. Shakur went on to make his debut appearance as an MC in the group’s 1991 track “Same Song.”
Prince over the years
Shock G worried later in life that his over-the-top image from the “Humpty Dance” video distracted viewers from his musical talent. “My nightmare was that I was going to OD onstage as Humpty, and they were going to leave me in the coffin with the nose on and put on the tombstone ‘Humpty Hump,’” he told Vibe magazine in 2005.
Yet his lighthearted approach — as captured on Digital Underground’s platinum-selling 1990 debut, “Sex Packets,” which featured another classic of the era in the rambunctious “Doowutchyalike” — endeared the group to fans of similarly quirky hip-hop outfits such as De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.
In a tweet Thursday, Ice Cube called Shock G — whose death closely follows those of fellow hip-hop veterans DMX and Black Rob — “a true Bay Area original,” while MC Hammer hailed his “incredible vision.” El-P of Run the Jewels called him “a kind and pure musical genius” and said he was the “coolest, most down-to-earth icon/hero of mine I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.”
Jacobs was born on Aug. 25, 1963, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He spent time as a keyboardist and a DJ before he landed in Oakland and formed Digital Underground with Chopmaster J and Kenny K. The group set out to make “nonconformist hip-hop,” as Shock G told Spin magazine at the time. “We just try to be in tune to all forms of music. R&B, jazz, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop. Like Funkadelic, we wanted to use all our influences on one record.”
For “Sex Packets,” which Digital Underground produced itself — and which Vibe put on a 2008 list of “51 albums that changed the game” — the group repeatedly sampled Parliament and Funkadelic, whose flamboyant bassist Bootsy Collins said Thursday on Twitter that Shock G “helped keep P Funk alive!” “The Humpty Dance” in turn was sampled by dozens of hip-hop acts including LL Cool J, Kriss Kross, Gang Starr and Das EFX.
Digital Underground continued to release albums throughout the ’90s, while Shock G cultivated a career as a producer outside the group. He co-produced Shakur’s 1991 debut album, “2Pacalypse Now,” and co-wrote and co-produced Shakur’s “I Get Around” single, which went to No. 11 on the Hot 100 in 1993. He also worked with Prince on Prince’s 2008 “Crystal Ball” box set and with rappers Murs and Yukmouth.
In 2004 he released a solo album called “Fear of a Mixed Planet.”
Information on survivors beyond his father wasn’t immediately available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsjggc5jHM
"The Humpty Dance" is one of the most sampled songs recorded by a hip hop/rap artist, boasting over 100 usages in other songs. By 1993, less than three years after its release, it had already been sampled in over 20 popular songs, most of them utilizing its drum track. In fact, it was sampled so much that Digital Underground humorously devoted the song "The Humpty Dance Awards" from their album The Body-Hat Syndrome to the many recording artists who sampled the track. Since then, dozens more artists have sampled the Humpty Dance song, from Ice Cube to Public Enemy.
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"A Crazy Break" – WC & the Maad Circle (full drum loop)
"Ain't That a Bitch" – Kam (full drum loop)
"Assata's Song (Remix)" – Paris (full drum loop on bridge)
"Attention: The Shawanda Story" – Lo-Key? (full drum loop)
"Back to the Underground" – WC & the Maad Circle (vocal, snare & kicks used in drum track)
"Behind Closed Doors" – WC & the Maad Circle (raw instrumental used as their drum track)
"Blow Your Mind" – Redman (drum loop)
"Boom! Shake the Room" – Will Smith (drum track looped underneath as kick drum support)
"Buck tha Devil – Da Lench Mob (full drum loop)
"Bumbell" – Yukmouth feat. Tech N9ne (bassline)
"Can't Truss It" – Public Enemy (full drum loop)
"Cherish the Day" (Best of Sade version) – Sade (raw instrumental used as drum track in last 30 secs of song)
"Christmas Spliff" – Luke (full drum loop)
"City to City" – Straw tha Vegas Don feat. Shock G (raw instrumental scratched in first verse)
"Cotex" – BWP (full drum loop; looped in reverse)
"Curse" – Recoil
"D.O.G. Me Out" – Guy (piece of loop, muted, as kick drum support)
"Dirty Water" - Made in London (full drum loop)
"Don't Be Afraid (Jazz You Up Version)" – Aaron Hall (full drum loop)
"Dr. Trevis (Signs Off)" – Redman (bit of drum loop underneath)
"Drive-By (Rollin' Slow)" – Boss (full drum loop)
"Flip Squad's in da House" – Big Kap, Flip Squad, Funkmaster Flex (full drum loop & bassline)
"Funk Mobb Niggaz" – Little Bruce (full drum loop)
"Get a Little Freaky with Me" – Aaron Hall (full drum loop)
"Here We Go Again" – Portrait (raw instrumental as their drum track)
"His Story" – TLC (full drum loop)
"Hold Onto My Bumper" – Dice (full drum loop)
"Holiday Madness" – Kam (full drum loop)
"How I'm Comin'" – LL Cool (full drum loop)
"How Ya Gonna Reason With a Psycho" – Insane Poetry (full drum loop)
"I Made Love (4 Da Very First Time)" – Little Shawn (drum track doubled up)
"If U Can't Dance" – Spice Girls (drum loop & bassline)
"I'm Outstanding" – Shaquille O'Neal (drum track looped underneath as support)
"Imma Gitz Mine" – Erick Sermon (chopped & muted drum bit underneath; kick drum support)
"Is It Good to You" – Heavy-D & the Boys (full drum loop)
"Jackin' For Beats" – Ice Cube (raw instrumental)
"Live and Learn" – Joe Public (full drum loop)
"Lost in the Storm" – Chubb Rock (raw instrumental used as their drum track)
"Love Don't Make Sense" – Alexander O'Neal (full drum loop)
"Love Sick" – Gang Starr (vocal sample scratched in choruses)
"Mama Said Knock You Out" – LL Cool J (full drum loop)
"Night of a Thousand Furry Toys" – Richard Wright (full drum loop)
"Not Your Money" – Oaktowns 357 (full drum loop)
"Nothin'" – Gold Money (full drum loop)
"PlayGround" – ABC (full loop, muted, used for kick drum support)
"Public Service Announcement" – Jay-Z (lyrics & rhyme cadence interpolation)
"Really Doe" – Ice Cube (bit of drum track underneath)
"SMPTE" – The Boys (full drum loop)
"Stop What Ya Doin'" – Apathy (one full bar length vocal & music sample)
"Teddy's Jam 2" – Guy (full loop)
"The Break Up" – WC & the Maad Circle (full drum loop)
"The Humpty Dance Awards" – Digital Underground (full drum loop & bassline)
"The Money is Made" – Detroit's Most Wanted (full drum loop)
"Time 4 Sum Aksion" – Redman (drum track chopped underneath; kick drum support)
"Two 4 the Time" – Nubian Crackers (raw instrumental as their drum track)
"Walk Thru Hell" – K-Stone (raw full instrumental)
"What About Your Friends" – TLC (drum track looped underneath for support)
"Who's the Mack?" – Ice Cube (vocal sample)
"Witchhunt" - Godflesh (drum loop & bassline)
"You Gotta Believe" – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch (full drum loop)
"Young N*ggaz" - 2Pac (drum track underneath)
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Check the stickied topic up top http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php/topic,337732.msg3146508.html
My fault, didn't see it up there
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RIP Shock-G/Humpty Hump. I remember when NWA’s road manager Atron said he had a group called Digital Underground. He played DOWHATCHALIKE video & I went crazy. I had to sample DU on JACKIN FOR BEATS and WHO’S THE MACK. And nobody had a better stage show. A true Bay Area original.
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I really want to know this too. This is a very legit question! He probably died out of nothing from one or more vaccines he recently took, just like DMX. >:( :( :'(
Yeah bro no doubt... Because Bill Gates goons in the media and big tech media are censoring and scrubbing any vaxx related deaths... they did it to Marvin Hagler and did it to DMX... and countless others...
I’m not saying it’s true in this case — all I’m saying is it’s suspicious when I’m seeing 100’s of reports on him dying and celebrating his life—yet no mention of the cause of death—and we are talking about a man who was not old and not known to have any health issues
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Three legendary rappers dying within 2 weeks of each other? Please stop the madness. Digital Underground's albums still hold up to this day. Highly underrated group. Shock G was also an underrated producer in his own right and never gets brought up for his production. He truly will be missed. One of the smartest, most imaginative rappers in the rap game in the golden age of hip hop, not just on the west.
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Spoke to a friend of mine back in Cali that lived down the street from Shock, sadly Shock was hooked on drugs & he never got over Pac's death (we all never did) but yea looks like it might have been meth :'( :'(
but ill confirm when i get solid news from my man again this is what he thinks happened cause Shock left Cali to come to Tampa & Tampa got a lotta meth heads :'( :'(
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Spoke to a friend of mine back in Cali that lived down the street from Shock, sadly Shock was hooked on drugs & he never got over Pac's death (we all never did) but yea looks like it might have been meth :'( :'(
but ill confirm when i get solid news from my man again this is what he thinks happened cause Shock left Cali to come to Tampa & Tampa got a lotta meth heads :'( :'(
Props for the report...
...and ask if he recently took the vaxx
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Spoke to a friend of mine back in Cali that lived down the street from Shock, sadly Shock was hooked on drugs & he never got over Pac's death (we all never did) but yea looks like it might have been meth :'( :'(
but ill confirm when i get solid news from my man again this is what he thinks happened cause Shock left Cali to come to Tampa & Tampa got a lotta meth heads :'( :'(
When Shock retired I remember him saying in an interview that making music leads him to do drugs and that's why he retired.
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Shocked that Shock was on Meth. Sherm or something similar I could see fitting his demeanor but he never seemed like a tweaker as he came across so mellow.
Do you have a link to that interview?
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Props for the report...
...and ask if he recently took the vaxx
Ill ask him that thanks for the reminder X & Black Rob did take the vaccine & look at em now
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When Shock retired I remember him saying in an interview that making music leads him to do drugs and that's why he retired.
Yeap it was widely known that Shock did use drugs but not no Meth shit is insane
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Shocked that Shock was on Meth. Sherm or something similar I could see fitting his demeanor but he never seemed like a tweaker as he came across so mellow.
Do you have a link to that interview?
I can't find the exact interview since it was so long ago but I did find an article from 2005 about his retirement with his retirement statement that also mentions it:
Shock G Hip-Hop Rap and P Funk Legend Retires
Written by Robert ID1655
Monday, 11 July 2005 10:48
Hip-hop, rap, P-Funk artist Shock G aka Gregory E. Jacobs has announced he is retiring from music. Shock is also an accomplished artists and writer.
Along with Chopmaster, Shock G formed the Digital Underground hip-hop and rap group with its unique sound in 1987. The group was bizarre, funky and unique in the genre that was being dominated by hard core rappers and gangsta rap groups, but they flourished and survived.
Shock G had many alter ego’s, the most famous was Humpty Hump.
Being born on the east coast and finally settling in the Bay Area, Shock G has made an impact of the music industry worldwide.
One of his accomplishments was introducing the world to the late rap icon Tupac Shakur. Leila Steinberg became Tupac's first manager. Tupac formed the group Strictly dope with 5 other members including rap artist Ray Luv. Later Steinberg introduced Tupac to Shock-G of Digital Underground and Tupac traveled with the Digital Underground, and when Shock gave him his chance on Same Old Song – the world of hip-hop and rap music would never be the same.
Shock G was on many of Tupac’s songs. Some are I Get Around and F**k The World. Shock has worked with almost everybody, from hip-hop’s Richie Rich to funk’s George Clinton to pop’s Prince.
Shocks latest work is his Fear of a Mixed Planet CD. A great album and it stands as a testament of what the music world has lost with the announcement of Shock G’s retirement from the music field.
More recently Shock has been touring and he spoke at the Grand Opening of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain, GA on June 11th.
Since this email from Shock was first posted in forums on the net, we wanted to wait and make sure it was in deed from Shock G and that the information was correct.
We have contacted Shock G’s people and it is confirmed that this is the way Shock G is feeling at the present. I am told he is fine and healthy and we wish Shock all the best in what ever he does. Our thoughts and prayers go with him and hopefully he will receive many blessing for all the blessing he has given all of us over the years. Shock is truly a legend and he will surely be missed in the studio.
Here is the statement from Shock G:
I''m retiring from all forms of studio work and song writing.
My reasons for retiring are:
1. I get no satisfaction or fullfillment from it anymore. It doesn''t make me happy. On the contrary, it depresses me.
Normally I''m not depressed, it's only surrounding the studio. I''m happy when I''m away from the studio.
2. Can''t make a living at it. 90% of the studio work I''ve done in the last 6 years has all been either for free or for peanuts, and hasn''t generated any income since.
3. It drives me to do drugs, cause I HATE BEING IN THE STUDIO. To much pressure & expectation for me to make/save/spark someone elses career or project.
4. I quit the studio. Fuck the studio.
5. I can''t win in the studio, It's pointless, it's a "catch 22" for me, watch:
If what I do sucks, it tarnishes the legacy, hurts the family, and even lowers the price, and also leaves the artists & involved-companies unhappy;
But if what I do shines, it generates more studio work for the future, and furthur traps me in the music business, a business I have no intention of slaving to the rest of my life. I gave it 20 years. I''m done.
6. Every man has the right to the pursuit of happiness and should first try a job that he might gain happiness & fullfillment from. This doesn''t make me happy anymore, it makes me miserable and a drug addict.
7. I''m done widdit. Whew!
YES, it already feels great already just to say it!!!
I most likely will try my hand at some of these:
> writing (Afeni assures me this is my true calling everytime she see's me. Maybe she's right?)
> acting
> stage performing, meaning accepting tours or positions in other bands doing keys & background vocals. (IF it's real and if the moneys good. No amatuer or free stuff anymore.)
> regular jobs in service (like clubs, hotels, TV show bands or staff, resturants, who knows?)
> ..and of course still do digital tours cause it PAYS and people don''t expect me & Mon (grown men) to work for free, like all the studio requests. I''m 42 and have wants/needs/bills/responsibilities.
So there it is, spread the word, I quit.
I don''t make beats, I don''t do vocals, I don''t write vocals, NONE OF IT.
Those of you who are friends, will be happy for me. Happy that I shook something that was making me miserable.
Those of you who had plans to "use" or manipulate me at the expense of my own health & happiness, will be upset about this. All I can say to those would be, you''re free to do whatever you wish, and so am I.
I choose to QUIT.
there it is.
Thanx everybody, spread the word
shock
Yeap it was widely known that Shock did use drugs but not no Meth shit is insane
Yeah the meth is just a rumour so I hope that isn't the case.
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highly doubt it was meth
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Ill ask him that thanks for the reminder X & Black Rob did take the vaccine & look at em now
yeah that's the word... good looks
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I can't find the exact interview since it was so long ago but I did find an article from 2005 about his retirement with his retirement statement that also mentions it:
Thanks. Man he sounded depressed. Money B sounds like a bitter ass hater when you see him but Shock always seemed on the up, guess that was just a front as that interview showed a totally different side.
Tin foil side, 3 famous black rappers all happen to die right around each other, not in the midst of a "pandemic" but after when the shots were flying and no one thinks its suspicious?
The media really did a number on you clowns and no I'm not an antivaxxer I just know this whole thing stinks.
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Thanks. Man he sounded depressed. Money B sounds like a bitter ass hater when you see him but Shock always seemed on the up, guess that was just a front as that interview showed a totally different side.
Tin foil side, 3 famous black rappers all happen to die right around each other, not in the midst of a "pandemic" but after when the shots were flying and no one thinks its suspicious?
The media really did a number on you clowns and no I'm not an antivaxxer I just know this whole thing stinks.
has it even been confirmed that he took that vaccine?
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No official word. Look at D, on one hand you've got hospitals writing people who died of being hit by a bus off as covid related because they had a test and on the other you've got them saying the link isn't confirmed in his case.
Suspicious stuff but only the big dogs see it - the rest of you sheeple believe it as the "good shepherd" fleeces and slaughters.
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Before this thread takes a runaway train into conspiracy theory world... It sucks that Shock G is gone. Humpty Dance was the jam. That beat and base line were ridiculous. I always wished Ice Cube let that beat ride a little longer on Jackin' For Beats and gave it a full verse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LO7O-qyUE
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Digital Underground Founder Shock G. Laid To Rest, DJ Premier, Big Daddy Kane And Other Notables Pay Respect
Shock G was laid to rest today in Tampa, Florida and a number of well-known rappers were on hand to pay their final respects.
Digital Underground founder Shock G. was lead to rest today (May 1st), in his hometown of Tampa, Florida.
Funeral services for the late rapper/musician were held at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church.
A variety of hymns, along with secular music were sung throughout the service by the Tampa Mass Choir, who belted out a tear-jerking rendition of Stevie Wonder’s timeless song “As (I’ll Be Loving You Always).”
Notables like Public Enemy’s Chuck D., Yo Yo, The Luniz, DJ Premier, Big Daddy Kane, Sway, Rob Base, MC Serch, Busta Rhymes, Jermaine Dupri, Cee Lo Green, and of course, Digital Underground founders Chopmaster J and Money B were in attendance or streamed into the funeral service to pay their final respect to Shock G.
“What I’m going to miss the most about Shock.G. was talking to him. He was the type of person, he gave me his full attention when he talked to you. He always looked at you directly in the eyes and would get really close to you. He was very animated, he was very passionate. He’d put his arms around me and we’d have deep conversations. He made me feel seen and loved.” – YoYo.
Big Daddy Kane recalled touring with Digital Underground during his Chocolate City Tour, and the fun he had being on the road with the group who created hits like “The Humpty Dance,” “Dowhatchalike,” “Kiss You Back” and the classic, “Same Song,” which introduced the world to Tupac Shakur.
“[They would] come around with their water guns, shooting us with super soakers and whatnot…and then on any given night you’d come downstairs around 1:00, 2:00 a.m. seeing Shock G. just sitting there at the piano in the lobby, getting it on just playing and whatnot. Man, it was beautiful times and I’m glad that I was able to have time to spend with you brother, rest well.”- Big Daddy Kane
DJ Premier offered up some words and revealed Shock G. had been consistently been sending him music as recently January 29th of 2021.
“I need to say how great you are and how great you’ve made things for just our souls to be touched, from Digital Underground to just playing the two characters of Humpty Hump and just being Shock G. You’ve always been deep. I feel like I’m a deep person so I could totally relate…we’re gonna miss you but we’re gonna hold it down for you. We’ll see when we get there all right Shock G?” – DJ Premier
The funeral for Shock G. comes a week after he was found dead in a Tampa, Florida hotel room. Employees found Shock unresponsive after he failed to check out.
According to the police, Shock was battling with substance abuse in the months before his passing.
In February, two Tampa cops encountered him after a complaint regarding a domestic disturbance at the Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk hotel. The police found the 57-year-old outside of a popular watering hole a few streets away and arrested him. Afterwards, they put him in protective custody.
The “Humpty Hump” rapper, whose real name is Greg Jacobs, strange behavior was connected to him drinking and ingesting his substance of choice: methamphetamine.
One police officer said, “I believed that without treatment, Gregory would get himself hurt. He was unable to determine for himself if medical treatment was necessary.”
They decided to detain Shock G. under the Marchman Act that allows police to take a person to a hospital to be evaluated for their own safety for substance abuse.
A few weeks later, according to a Hillsborough County Medical Examiner, Shock G. was found dead at the Vista Inn and Suites on E Bearss Avenue in Tampa.
His cause of death will not be released until a formal autopsy report and toxicology results are in.
Shock G’s life is not unlike so many gifted artists that are so filled with genius that their only escape or sanctuary is to indulge in narcotics. Regardless of how he passed, Shock G. will always be a titan in Hip-Hop culture.
“People talk about him as a great musician, a great artist or whatever, but he was 10 times the human. He wanted everyone around him to be comfortable and happy, in spite of what made him happy,” Money B. said.
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so it looks like the meth rumor might be true .. pretty shocking
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so it looks like the meth rumor might be true .. pretty shocking
His ex from the early 90s posted a video on youtube of him apologizing to her for something that went down in the early 2000s. Now I don't think she was right for posting this on youtube because it was a personal message but it does kind of insinuate that he took his own life. On his mirror it says something like "please don't leave I need you" maybe a message he wrote to himself to keep going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KJztI5p9Dw
Shock G always seemed so chill and down to earth but it seems he had a lot of demons and was struggling all this time.
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I agree unfortunately.
After watching that video it seems pretty clear that he either killed himself shortly after this obvious goodbye to this person or he OD'ed knowing that the inevitable end to that was coming and would not be here much longer. Drinking out of the vodka bottle and that "Please don't leave.....needs you...." message someone wrote on the mirror at the end there is pretty telling.
This doesn't seem like some conspiracy with a vaccine. Black Rob was in bad health for a long time with the kidney failure and strokes too. I'm sure the vaccine didn't help. DMX's current wife or girlfriend did initially say he got sick and never recovered from getting the shot that night and then I don't know what happened there. There was a big attack by the media to shoot that story down immediately. So probably something there. Like how they attacked the story of Hank Aaron dying from the shot. I do think there has been catastrophic damage and death 100% attributable to the vaccine and there is more complications coming in the next few years. The media won't report on the deaths from the shot the same way they will never even attempt an accurate accounting of how many have actually died from Covid because those numbers were and are so inflated on purpose.
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Rip King! F’d up year!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CP8QcY-LbdG/
Shock G died in a Tampa hotel room from a deadly mix of drugs and alcohol ... according to the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner.
A rep for the medical examiner's office tells TMZ ... the Digital Underground rapper died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, ethanol (alcohol) and methamphetamine.
We broke the story ... Shock G was found unresponsive in his hotel room in April, and there were no outward signs of trauma. Shock was last seen the day before he died, by a hotel manager ... who then found him in the room on April 22.
The manager had grown concerned after Shock -- famed performer of the 'Humpty Dance' -- missed check-out time, and immediately called 911.
The Hillsborough County ME says Shock G was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:20 PM ET.
As we first told you ... the iconic rapper's funeral was held May 1, and his Digital Underground family was well represented at the service.
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Meth...
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Before this thread takes a runaway train into conspiracy theory world... It sucks that Shock G is gone. Humpty Dance was the jam. That beat and base line were ridiculous. I always wished Ice Cube let that beat ride a little longer on Jackin' For Beats and gave it a full verse.
Humpty Dance is a all time classic and still jamming to this day.
R.I.P. Shock G
and
R.I.P. 2Pac