{"id":151845,"date":"2021-04-23T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=151845"},"modified":"2021-05-10T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:32:51","slug":"digital-undergrounds-shock-g-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/digital-undergrounds-shock-g-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Underground&#8217;s Shock G Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"151846\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/digital-undergrounds-shock-g-passed-away\/0_tupac-shakur-and-shock-g-01-aug-1991\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991.jpg?fit=615%2C743&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"615,743\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991.jpg?fit=615%2C743&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991.jpg?resize=447%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-151846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991.jpg?resize=447%2C540&amp;ssl=1 447w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0_Tupac-Shakur-and-Shock-G-01-Aug-1991.jpg?w=615&amp;ssl=1 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hip Hop community was struck with another hard blow while we are all still mourning the deaths of <strong>DMX &#038; Black Rob<\/strong>. Yesterday producer and <strong>Digital Underground<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Chopmaster J<\/strong> revealed that his crew member and fellow co-founder <strong>Shock G<\/strong> has passed away. <strong>Shock G<\/strong> was 57 years old and the cause of death hasn&#8217;t been revealed, yet. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shock G <\/strong>contributed to <strong>Digital Underground<\/strong>&#8216;s successful US Top 100 albums <em>Sex Packets, Sons of the P &#038; The Body-Hat Syndrome<\/em>, including the hit record <em>Humpty Hump <\/em>and introducing <strong>2Pac <\/strong>to the music world. <strong>Pac <\/strong>was a member of the <strong>Digital Underground <\/strong>crew when he appeared on the group&#8217;s song, <em>Same Song<\/em>. <strong>Shock<\/strong> was one of the producers on <strong>2Pac<\/strong>&#8216;s debut solo album, <em>2Pacalypse Now<\/em> and was featured on <strong>Pac<\/strong>&#8216;s 1993 song <em>I Get Around<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>BlackoutHipHop extends condolences to <strong>Shock G<\/strong>\u2018s friends, fans, and family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31A6RjOxE74\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hip Hop community was struck with another hard blow while we are all still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Dv7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}