The opening lines of Digital Underground’s chart-topping 1990 breakthrough, “The Humpty Dance” doubled as a prophecy. Under his nom de schnozz, Humpty Hump, the performer alternately known as Shock G ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history. For many listeners, Bay Area rap from the late ’80s and early ’90s calls to mind the dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The group is best known for the hit singles “Doowutchyalike” and “The Humpty Dance”. A cause of death has not yet been revealed, ...

The group had a string of hits in the 1990s, including “The Humpty Dance,” and helped introduce a little-known rapper named Tupac Shakur. By Azi Paybarah Gregory Edward Jacobs, known as Shock G, the ...

It was sometime around my freshman year in college when I realized that Shock G and Humpty Hump were the same person. It shouldn't have taken me that long to figure it out. But these were pre-internet ...

Pop culture is always fixated on youth, but no pop genre has a harder time taking care of its veterans than hip-hop. Artists age out of the limelight quickly, and there aren’t many nostalgia tours ...

One of Jacobs’s many gifts was his ability to be extremely funny on record without making a joke of the record. Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images It would be tempting to trace his life’s itinerary and ...

If you’re in a Burger King bathroom today, please get busy in honor of the great Shock G. The world is mourning for the legendary Digital Underground MC, who died Thursday at only 57. Gregory Jacobs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rapper and producer Shock G, also known as Humpty Hump of the Bay Area hip-hop crew Digital Underground, has died at age 57. The ...

America, feel free to get busy in a Burger King bathroom this weekend, because Humpty Hump would want you to. It was in his guise as the outsized, Groucho-glasses-wearing, sometimes ermine ...

The musician, born Gregory Jacobs, was found dead in a Florida hotel on Thursday Shock G, the co-founder of the iconic hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57. The rapper, born Gregory ...