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Digital Underground

US rap crew, who were among the genre’s most faithful advocates of the funk created by Parliament and Funkadelic.

Biography

Though it isn't inaccurate to call the Digital Underground one-hit wonders, there's more to the Oakland, California, rap act than just the "Humpty Dance." Led by split-personality frontman Shock Gee (aka Humpty Hump), the Digital Underground remains one of the few groups to have so perfectly captured the artistic and philosophical vision of Parliament-Funkadelic. This fact is evidenced not only by the group's pilfering of the P-Funk catalog for samples, but also in their collective aesthetic and id-first approach to party-making. Perhaps most interestingly, the Digital Underground was the original platform for Tupac Shakur, who was a dancer and rapper for the group before embarking on his legendary solo career.