Rap ruses get no better than Humpty Hump. The alter-ego of Digital Underground's leader Shock G, Humpty's mythology has him wearing a fabulously-personalized Groucho Marx-style nose to cover up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shock G of Digital Underground performing at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis in July 1990. (Raymond Boyd / Getty Images) Shock ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shock G, producer and frontman of the 1990s hip-hop group Digital Underground and widely known for his alter-ego “Humpty Hump,” ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – 1991: Rapper Shock G. from Digital Underground performs at the U.I.C. Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois in 1991. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of ...

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Rapper Shock G, a producer and the frontman for the 1990s group Digital Underground, was found dead in a Florida hotel, his father said Thursday. He was 57. The rapper, born Gregory ...

He got stupid. He shot an arrow like Cupid. He used words that didn’t mean nothing, like “loopid.” Humpty Hump was his name and he single-handedly saved the summer of 1990, easily the worst radio ...

Murs had a keyboard player. I thought that was pretty weird. Sometime in the early '00s -- let's say 2003 -- I caught a Def Jux package tour at my local indie rock club, and when headliner Murs was ...

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, ...

Shock G, producer and frontman of the 1990s hip-hop group Digital Underground and widely known for his alter-ego “Humpty Hump,” has died, according to a statement from his family. The artist, whose ...