LOS ANGELES — Shock G, who blended whimsical wordplay with '70s funk as leader of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57.
The group's former head of security says the rapper-producer was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida.
Malonga said Shock G had struggled with drug addiction for years.
The group found fame with the Billboard Top 10 hit "The Humpty Dance" in 1990, with Shock G performing as one of his many alter egos, Humpty Hump.
He introduced the group's former roadie 2Pac to the world a year later on the song "Same Song."
