{"id":103196,"date":"2021-04-23T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103196"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:05:29","slug":"digital-underground-front-man-shock-g-dead-at-57-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103196","title":{"rendered":"Digital Underground Front Man Shock G Dead at 57- Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103196\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-103197 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21113040663034-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21113040663034-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21113040663034.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Shock G, of Digital Underground, died April 22, 2021, in a hotel in Tampa, Florida. No immediate cause of death has been revealed. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p>Born Gregory Edward Jacobs on August 25, 1963, Shock G (also known as Humpty Hump) was an American musician, rapper and lead vocalist for the hip hop group Digital Underground. The New York City native spent most of his childhood on the East Coast, until eventually settling in Tampa, Florida. Shock G helped form the group in 1987. They gained popularity following the release of their song \u201cThe Humpty Dance\u201d in 1990. Digital Underground produced 6 studio albums, as well as appearing on several compilation albums and soundtracks for films such as NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1991), and DON\u2019T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD (1996). After 20 years touring together, Shock G announced the group officially disbanded and their album \u201c\u2026Cuz a D.U. Party Don\u2019t Stop\u201d would be their last. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Digital Underground, Shock G also found moderate success as a solo artist and producer, most notably for producing Tupac Shakur\u2019s platinum single \u201cI Get Around\u201d and co-producing Shakur\u2019s debut album \u201c2Pocalypse Now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Shock G\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Rapper Shock G, of Digital Underground, died April 22, 2021, in a hotel in Tampa, Florida. No immediate cause of death has been revealed. He was 57. Born Gregory Edward Jacobs on August 25, 1963, Shock G (also known as Humpty Hump) was an American musician, rapper and lead vocalist for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[26382],"class_list":["post-103196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-digital-underground-front-man-shock-g-dead-at-57-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103196"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}