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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The group found fame with the Billboard Top 10 hit "Humpty Dance" in 1990, as the performer, born Greg Jacobs, donned a Groucho Marx-style fake nose and glasses to become one of his many alter egos, ...

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 ...

Hip Hop pioneer Shock G and Digital Underground co-founder has died. Pic credit: Rolling Out/YouTube Gregory Jacobs, the Digital Underground’s co-founder and rapper who performed as Shock G and his ...

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 ...

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 ...