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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shock G, the leader of hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57. According to the Associated Press, the rapper was found unresponsive in a Tampa, Florida-area hotel room on Thursday. The ...

One of rap’s most respected pioneers has died. There is a saying that goes “bad news comes in threes” and the rap community is experiencing the adage firsthand. According to sources, rap veteran Shock ...

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 has died at the age of 57 [Courtesy] Rap star Shock G has passed away at the age of 57. The musician's death follows the sad passing of fellow rap stars DMX and Black Rob earlier this month.

Shock G during Digital Underground In Concert At S.O.B.'s at S.O.B.'s in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) Born Gregory Jacobs in Brooklyn, Shock G found ...