{"id":233720,"date":"2021-04-23T06:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/shock-g-dies-the-humpty-dance-rapper-was-57\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T06:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:50:29","slug":"shock-g-dies-the-humpty-dance-rapper-was-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shock-g-dies-the-humpty-dance-rapper-was-57\/","title":{"rendered":"#Shock G Dies, ‘The Humpty Dance’ Rapper Was 57"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Shock G Dies, ‘The Humpty Dance’ Rapp<\/a>er Was 57<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\nIt’s a sad day in the hip hop world as rap legend Shock G has passed away. The rapper, famous for the Digital Underground hit song “The Humpty Dance” and his work with Tupac Shakur, was found dead on Thursday in a hotel room in Tampa, according to his father, Edward Racker. There were no signs of trauma and the cause of death has not yet been determined, pending the results of an autopsy. He was 57 years old.<\/p>\n

Shock G, whose real name was Gregory Jacobs, was known worldwide as the lead vocalist of the hip hop group Digital Underground. He was behind the famous 1989 song “The Humpty Dance,” which was a single from the group’s debut album Sex Packets<\/em>. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard<\/em> Rap Singles chart at the time and continues to get regular play to this day, serving as one of the most memorable rap songs of the 1980s.
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