Digital Underground
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Origin | Oakland, California |
Genre(s) | Hip hop |
Years active | 1987 - Present |
Label(s) | Tommy Boy, Radikal, Interscope, Jake |
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Shock G Money-B Humpty Hump 2Fly Eli |
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DJ Fuze Chopmaster-J Tupac Shakur Kent Racker Nzazi Muhammed Schmoovy-Schmoov Pee Wee (Ramone Gooden) Big Money Odis Cleetis Mack Saafir |
Digital Underground is an alternative rap group hailing from Oakland, California, who played a big part in giving West Coast rap the spotlight. Their leader was Greg “Shock G” Jacobs, who also went by the stage name of Humpty Hump. Jacbobs spent most of his youth in New York City and southern Florida. 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 spaced-out image, which lay in contrast to the gangster rap that most west coast acts focused on. The group's original image was set up to be a tribute to social activists The Black Panthers, but when Public Enemy became a prominent band, Jacobs chose to take the group's image in a more whimsical direction, that of an updated Parliament-Funkadelic for the hip-hop audience. Jacobs designed detailed album covers and cartoon-laced liner notes, a homage to Parliament-Funkadelic album designs. They are also notable for catapulting member Tupac Shakur into the spotlight.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Sex Packets (1990)
- This is an EP Release (1991)
- Sons of the P (1991)
- The Body-Hat Syndrome (1993)
- Future Rhythm (1996)
- Who Got The Gravy? (1998)
- The Lost Files (1999)
- "..Cuz A d.u. Party Don't Stop!!" (released May 27, 2008)
[edit] Soundtracks
- Nothing But Trouble (soundtrack) (1991)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
- Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
[edit] Compilations
- No Nose Job: The Legend of Digital Underground (2001)
- Playwutchyalike: The Best of Digital Underground (2003)
[edit] DVDs
- Digital Underground: Raw and Uncut (2004)
- Thug Angel: The Life of an Outlaw (2000)
- Tupac: Resurrection (2004)
- One Nation Under a Groove (2005)