Gregory Jacobs, the charismatic, affable Digital Underground rapper-producer who performed as Shock G and Humpty Hump, was found dead Thursday, April 22nd at a hotel room in Tampa, Florida. Jacobs’ ...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- Gregory Jacobs, the leader of the Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground who fronted the crew in the personas of Shock G and Humpty Hump, has died at age 57, according to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for ’70s funk as leader of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57. Nzazi Malonga, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to official records, the rapper was involved in two incidents months before his passing According to official records, ...

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 ...

Back in 1990, a quirky character with a Groucho Marx nose changed hip hop forever. Digital Underground introduced the world to Humpty Hump, an alter ego so memorable that decades later, people still ...

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 ...

Shock G of ’90s-era hip hop group Digital Underground has died at age 57. The sad news came via Jimi “Chopmaster J” Dright, one of the other founding members of the group, who wrote on Instagram, “34 ...

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, ...

A genre’s global rise: Hip hop has grown from a niche movement into the world’s leading music genre, powered by cultural influence and digital platforms. Digital Underground’s impact: With hits like ...

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 ...