Digital Underground
USA
Formed: 1987
Died: 01 January 2008
Genres: Rap, Electronic, R&B
Styles: Alternative Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, West Coast Rap, Club/Dance, Dance
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While hip-hop was consumed by the hardcore, noisy political rap of Public Enemy and the gangsta rap of N.W.A., Digital Underground sneaked out of Oakland with their bizarre, funky homage to Parliament-Funkadelic. Digital Underground built most of their music from P-Funk samples and developed a similarly weird sense of style and humor, highlighted by Shock-G's outrageous costumes and the whole band's parade of alter egos. Of all these alter egos, Shock-G's Humpty Hump -- a ridiculous comical figure with a Groucho Marx nose and glasses and a goof...
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