Posted on 04/22/2021 9:56:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nzazi Malonga, a longtime friend who served as head of security and helped manage the group, said the rapper-producer was found unresponsive Thursday in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida
Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for '70s funk as leader of the off-kilter hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57.
Nzazi Malonga, a longtime friend who served as head of security and helped manage the group, said the rapper-producer was found unresponsive Thursday in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida. Malonga said the performer, born Greg Jacobs, had struggled with drug addiction for years.
The group found fame with the Billboard Top 10 hit “Humpty Dance” in 1990, as Shock G donned a Groucho Marx-style fake nose and glasses to become one of his many alter egos, Humpty Hump.
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“I’ll drink up all the Hennessy you got on you shelf, so just let me introduce myself!”
Groucho was addicted to cigars.
“People say ya look like M.C. Hammer on crack, Humpty”
I hope Biz Markee is ok.
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx was 87, and “Shock G,” who was 57, did not discover the fountain of youth.
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsjggc5jHM
Black people, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump
White people, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump
Puerto Ricans, do the Humpty Hump, just keep on doin’ the hump
Samoans, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump
Let’s get stoopid!
Last I heard...he was in a bad way.
Keith Richards out lives another one
So sad. Another great artist dies young.
They will blame the drugs, but there’s no doubt that systemic racism was the underlying cause.
Tommy Sotomayor did a video on DMX’s death and how awful his mother was. I think he said DMX’s mother dropped him off at a soup kitchen and never went back for him.
digital underground was in the chevy chase movie “nothing but trouble”...
ping
I remember Digital Underground for this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsjggc5jHM
Genuinely funky and fun song (but off color in parts). From the transitional period before hip hop went off the rails into total negativity.
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