A completely amusing discovery
Apr. 20th, 2004 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaAllright, all you Humpty Humpers out there, y'all needs to put ya noses on and go to Shock-G's Official Website for some mad Digital Underground flava.
Last night at work, I was bored out of my mind, and looking around the 'net for various music-related stuff, as we all know that I am a total disgusting record nerd, and I figured I'd see what Digital Underground is up to, since they were, and are, one of my alltime favorite hiphop groups. And I found the above website, the internet home of Shock-G, the brains behind the Digital Underground and the alter ego of my idol, Edward Wellington Humpty Hump the Third. The website is just awesome: there are all kinds of live mp3s to download, amusing anecdotes, road diaries...you name it--but best of all, the site represents the vision of one of hiphop's truest artists. Forget the gangbangin' posturing and the ludicrous blather about money and hos--it's clear by just perusing the site for a little while that DU really were the literal inheritors of George Clinton's P-Funk sound and compositional philosophy.
And, on a related, bizarre note...I picked up Intermix's first, nearly-lost album (the one on Third Mind records) over the weekend, and as I was driving home from Pittsburgh listening to it I suddenly, mysteriously found myself singing the words "We're S-H-I-N-I-N on da funk" to it--and then it hit me: Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber sampled the beat from Digital Underground's "Shinin' on the Funk" for that song!
Which reminds me: I need to sample the beat from "The Humpty Dance" for this new song I have planned. That right: Digital Underground influence on whacked-out industrial must continue.
Last night at work, I was bored out of my mind, and looking around the 'net for various music-related stuff, as we all know that I am a total disgusting record nerd, and I figured I'd see what Digital Underground is up to, since they were, and are, one of my alltime favorite hiphop groups. And I found the above website, the internet home of Shock-G, the brains behind the Digital Underground and the alter ego of my idol, Edward Wellington Humpty Hump the Third. The website is just awesome: there are all kinds of live mp3s to download, amusing anecdotes, road diaries...you name it--but best of all, the site represents the vision of one of hiphop's truest artists. Forget the gangbangin' posturing and the ludicrous blather about money and hos--it's clear by just perusing the site for a little while that DU really were the literal inheritors of George Clinton's P-Funk sound and compositional philosophy.
And, on a related, bizarre note...I picked up Intermix's first, nearly-lost album (the one on Third Mind records) over the weekend, and as I was driving home from Pittsburgh listening to it I suddenly, mysteriously found myself singing the words "We're S-H-I-N-I-N on da funk" to it--and then it hit me: Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber sampled the beat from Digital Underground's "Shinin' on the Funk" for that song!
Which reminds me: I need to sample the beat from "The Humpty Dance" for this new song I have planned. That right: Digital Underground influence on whacked-out industrial must continue.
