Digital Underground was an alternative rap group from Oakland, California. They could also have been accurately defined as a "project" or "music family" rather than a group as their personnel steadily changed and rotated with each new album & tour. www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608000430/Digital-Underground.html

Background

The crew's leader was Greg “Shock G” Jacobs (also known as Humpty Hump), who originally formed the group in 1987 with Jimi Dright of Berkeley, California (also known as Chopmaster J), and Tampa Hip-Hop radio deejay Kenneth Waters (also known as Kenny-K). www.tampahiphop.com/kenny.php

Jacobs spent most of his youth in Tampa Florida and New York City. Heavily influenced by the various Funk bands of the 1970s, Digital Underground sampled their music frequently, which quickly became a defining element of West Coast rap. Their ‘alternative’ status owes much to their unabashedly comical and often spaced-out image, which lay in contrast to the gangster rap that most west coast acts focused on. In the very beginning, the group's image was more militant, and was intended to be a tribute to social activists The Black Panthers, but when Public Enemy became a prominent band, Jacobs chose to take the image in a more whimsical direction; that of an updated Parliament-Funkadelic for the hip-hop audience. As "Rackadelic", Jacobs designed detailed album covers and cartoon-laced liner notes, in homage to Parliament-Funkadelic album designs. Digital Underground is also notable for launching the career of member Tupac Shakur, as well as spinning off many side projects and solo acts, including Raw Fusion, Saafir, and female artist Mystic. www.vh1.com/artists/az/digital_underground/bio.jhtml