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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UPDATE: Digital Underground founding member Shock G, best known as his alter ego, MC Humpty Hump, died from an accidental overdose ...

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 ...

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 ...

The hip-hop artist Shock G, leader of the group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57 years old. He was born Greg Jacobs, though you may know him better by an alter ego. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "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, ...

After watching this stellar mashup, you might be convinced that Gonzo from The Muppets and Shock G, the rapper who brought us the dulcet tones of “The Humpty Dance,” are actually the same person.

Los Angeles — Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for ’70s funk as leader of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57. Nzazi Malonga, a ...