Today in Music History - We Ruin the Image and the Style that you're used to
- bribriny
- Aug 25
- 1 min read
Today in Music History - Happy Birthday to Greg Jacobs..better known as Shock G and Humpty Hump with Digital Underground.
We all did "The Humpty Dance," which made a protest about the uniformity among successful rappers of the time, the song was a #1 Rap song, made #11 Hot 100, and #7 on the R&B Chart.
"The Humpty Dance" is Shock G's second song to feature his alter-ego "Humpty Hump," who debuted on "Doowutchyalike" which was Digital Underground's first video release in 1989. The character, which sports a buffoon persona, colorful clothes, and Groucho glasses, is sung by Shock G. A fictional biography was constructed for Humpty, the story being that Edward Ellington Humphrey III, former lead singer of "Smooth Eddie and the Humpers," had become a rapper after burning his nose in a kitchen accident with a deep-fryer. Because of the "accident", the character is seen wearing a large nose disguise.
Whatever, we love to dance to it!
"First I limp to the side like my legs was broken
Shaking and twitching kind of like I was smoking
Crazy, whack, funky
People say, "You look like MC Hammer on crack, Humpty"
That's alright 'cause my body's in motion
It's supposed to look like a fit or a convulsion"
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