He changed the way I thought and felt about music, and his mixes have been the soundtrack of my life since that fateful day in 2010 when I stumbled upon Nick’s first live set as “Pumpkin.” 🎃 Not only was he a beloved friend of mine and so many others in our community, he had a special gift for using music to create a joyful bliss of energy (he called it “love sauce”) that drew people in like moths to the flame. Greg JacobsĮxactly 5 years ago today, this world lost an amazing human. Blowfish, the quirky cartoonist Rackadelic, and a huge chunk of my musical heart. With him dies the smooth rapper Shock G, the hilarious Humpty Hump, the virtuoso piano player The Piano Man, M.C. Gregory Jacobs died today… he was one of the most underrated and unknown creative geniuses in hip-hop history. That wasn’t how Jacobs liked to work, and the subsequent EPs and albums felt sloppy and rushed compared to Sex Packets. But they forced him to quickly push out new music to capitalize on the popularity of Humpty Dance. Sex Packets is still one of my all-time favorite albums, and I truly believe that if Tommy Boy Records would have been patient enough to let Jacobs create more carefully themed and executed concept albums, they might have been classics too. (including Tupac Shakur, who started as a DU roadie, then backup dancer, then MC) but Jacobs was the creative genius behind the weird and wonderfully unique Digital Underground. There were plenty of others who contributed to D.U. It wasn’t until years later that I learned that all the names I just listed above were actually ONE very talented guy: Gregory Jacobs. The band’s artwork was drawn by an artist named Rackadelic. Their second single was the popular hit “The Humpty Dance” and then they dropped their debut LP, a themed concept album called “Sex Packets” which presented Digital Underground as a huge cast of musical characters, including Shock-G, Humpty Hump, M.C. I bought the single (on cassette) and wore it out. In high school I fell in love with a weird/hilarious/catchy hip-hop song called “Doowutchyalike” by Digital Underground.
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