Digital Underground was an alternative rap group from Oakland, California. They could also have been accurately defined as a "project" or "music family" rather than a group as their personnel steadily changed and rotated with each new album & tour.
Digital Underground's leader was Greg “Shock G” Jacobs (also known as Humpty Hump), who originally formed the group in 1987 with Jimi Dright of Berkeley, California (also known as Chopmaster J), and T...
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Digital Underground was an alternative rap group from Oakland, California. They could also have been accurately defined as a "project" or "music family" rather than a group as their personnel steadily changed and rotated with each new album & tour.
Digital Underground's leader was Greg “Shock G” Jacobs (also known as Humpty Hump), who originally formed the group in 1987 with Jimi Dright of Berkeley, California (also known as Chopmaster J), and Tampa Hip-Hop radio deejay Kenneth Waters (also known as Kenny-K).
Jacobs spent most of his youth in Tampa Florida and New York City. Heavily influenced by the various Funk bands of the 1970s, Digital Underground sampled their music frequently, which quickly became a defining element of West Coast rap. Their ‘alternative’ status owes much to their unabashedly comical and often spaced-out image, which lay in contrast to the gangster rap that most west coast acts focused on. In the very beginning, the group's image was more militant, and was...
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