{"id":413,"date":"2021-04-23T05:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/04\/23\/shock-g-co-founder-of-digital-underground-dead-at-57\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T05:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:35:05","slug":"shock-g-co-founder-of-digital-underground-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/04\/23\/shock-g-co-founder-of-digital-underground-dead-at-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock G, co-founder of Digital Underground, dead at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shock G, founder of West-coast hip hop group, Digital Underground, has passed away. Best known for the group’s breakthrough hit “The Humpty Dance” and his entertainingly provocative alter ego “Humpty Hump,” Shock G — born, Gregory Jacobs — also achieved belated notoriety for mentoring a young Tupac Shakur and co-producing his debut album 2Pacalypse Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to his father<\/a>, Edward Racker, Shock G was found dead in a Tampa, FL hotel room. The cause of death was unclear. He was 57 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born in Far Rockaway, Queens<\/a> in 1963, Shock G would move to Tampa in 1980, back north to Queens, then return to Tampa where he worked as a radio DJ. From there, he headed west to Los Angeles and later Oakland, where he worked at a music store. It was there that he connected with Jimi “Chopmaster J” Dright from Berkeley, and Tampa<\/a> hip-hop radio deejay Kenneth “Kenny-K” Waters to form Digital Underground in 1987. The hip-hop group made their mark with their hit single “The Humpty Dance,” which featured the prosthetic nose wearing Shock G rapping as his alter ego “Humpty Hump.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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