Shock G, lead rapper, founder and producer of seminal Hip-Hop group Digital Underground has handed away. He was 57.
On Thursday (April 22), Jimi “Chopmaster J” Dright, a founding member of Digital Underground, broke the information that Shock, born Grag Jacobs, had handed. TMZ experiences that his father, Edward Racker, confirmed his demise. Reportedly he was discovered useless in a lodge room in Tampa.
A Bay Space group and Hip-Hop band, Digital Underground was created in 1987 however broke by means of in late 1989 early 1990 with their debut album, Intercourse Packets, on Tommy Boy Data. The album’s lead single was “Doowutchyalike,” which featured a giant nosed rapper named Humpty Hump. It could take some followers longer than others to comprehend that Humpty and Shock G have been one in the identical. When the second single, “The Humpty Dance” grew to become a smash hit, the group was outta right here.
Digital Underground would drop six correct albums, the final being 2008’s ..Cuz a D.U. Celebration Don’t Cease! which arrived after a few decade-long hiatus. DU additionally famously gave Tupac Shakur his first huge break, that includes the younger rapper on a music known as “Similar Music” off their This Is an EP Launch that dropped in early 1991. Shock G would additionally function on Pac’s hit “I Get Round,” famously spittin’ that he was the one “that put the satin in your panties.” He additionally produced the aforementioned music, and through his profession produced tracks for artists that embrace the Luniz, George Clinton, MURS and even Prince.
Relaxation in highly effective peace Shock G.
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