GM! Sharing my opening DJ Set for the historical HipHop event in the Metaverse for the Digital UnderGround (humptiness FOREVER)

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Was such an honor opening up for the Digital Underground Metaverse Party, the event took place at 6 pm EST as The DFLO shuttle brought the official arrival of DIGITAL UNDERGROUND to Cryptovoxels
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The DFLO shuttle will be arriving in the new Digital Undeground Headquarters in Cryptovoxels, so brace yourself for a HISTORIC evening of hip hop love and humptiness FOREVER.


Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance

Oakland’s Digital Underground was a collective of emcees and musicians whose lineup changed constantly between 1989 and the group’s disbandment in 2008. Shock G, Digital Underground’s founder and mainstay, is its most notable member, though the legendary Tupac Shakur started his career as a backup dancer and roadie for the group. (He can be seen in several D.U. videos, including “The Humpty Dance.”)
The group had a club hit in 1989 with “Doowutchyalike” and followed it up in 1990 with their first album Sex Packets. The album went platinum on the strength of its smash hit “The Humpty Dance” and Digital Underground’s popularity was such that they appeared in the 1991 movie “Nothing but Trouble” with Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd. As talented as Digital Underground were, perhaps the success of “The Humpty Dance” hindered them, as they tried to tailor their sound and image to what was essentially a gimmick, but had worked so well early on for them with songs like “No Nose Job.”

The Humpty Dance,” however, was extremely innovative and entirely deserving of its fanfare. The song appears regularly on hip hop best of lists, this one being no exception. Musically, the track features a fierce deep baseline and has traces of the Parliament style funk from which it samples. So infectious was its beat, that in 1993 Digital Underground made the track “The Humpty Dance Awards” to recognize the multitude of other acts sampling “The Humpty Dance.” Among the artists to sample its beat are LL Cool J, Joe Public, ABC, Kriss Kross, Portrait, and the Spice Girls. Lyrically, Humpty Hump, Shock G’s alter ego, raps about standard braggadocio and sexual exploits like getting busy in a Burger King bathroom. A party hit, and a personal favorite of mine in karaoke, “The Humpty Dance” has proven its staying power nearly 23 years later.

As a bit of trivia, the Humpty Hump back story is a clever one and Shock G clearly went all out in developing his character with a fictional biography. Hump’s “real” name is Edward Ellington Humphrey III. After burning his nose in a kitchen accident involving a deep friar, Humphrey had to quit his group “Smooth Eddie and the Humpers” (he was the lead singer) and become a rapper. Because of his nose injuries, Hump wears a prosthetic nose. Humpty Hump continued to appear in in various Digital Underground tracks like “Kiss You Back,” and well into the 2000’s with other artists. A personal favorite is 2003’s “Risky Business” with the underrated Murs.

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