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I m going to miss him dearly : Digital Underground frontman Shock G remembered by family, friends at intimate funeral service Pamela Avila, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Digital Underground s Shock G was laid to rest Saturday afternoon as family and friends said their final goodbyes. An intimate funeral service for the late rapper and producer, born Gregory Jacobs, was held at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Tampa, Florida. The three-and-a-half-hour-long service was streamed live on the church s website and Facebook page. I ve always felt so much love from everyone in [Digital Underground] and I know that s an extension of him, his brother, Kent Racker, said during the service. I ve always felt so much love from everybody that he touched and no story is too small or too long and I would love to hear everyone, any story you have about him, they re always about love… as his brother, it s been a charmed life being a brother of ....
USA TODAY Digital Underground s Shock G was laid to rest Saturday afternoon as family and friends said their final goodbyes. An intimate funeral service for the late rapper and producer, born Gregory Jacobs, was held at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Tampa, Florida. The three-and-a-half-hour-long service was streamed live on the church s website and Facebook page. I ve always felt so much love from everyone in [Digital Underground] and I know that s an extension of him, his brother, Kent Racker, said during the service. I ve always felt so much love from everybody that he touched and no story is too small or too long and I would love to hear everyone, any story you have about him, they re always about love… as his brother, it s been a charmed life being a brother of Shock G. You think about what he s done for friends, I was his brother. I m going to miss him dearly. ....
Friends and family of the rapper-producer, born Gregory Jacobs, joined together at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Tampa, Florida on Saturday (May 1). The service was streamed live, according to the church’s Facebook page. Busta Rhymes, Jermaine Dupri, and CeeLo Green, were a few of the celeb guests in attendance, WFLA Channel 8 reports. Members of Digital Underground also made appearances on the live stream of the service to offer their condolences. “His legacy was how he loved people unconditionally,” said Reverend Doctor Alesia Ford-Burse during the service. “He loved to a default.” Shock G was a rapper and keyboardist for Digital Underground, a pioneering Hip Hop group responsible for a number of influential singles, including the group’s groundbreaking hit “The Humpty Dance.” He was also known as his alter ego Humpty Hump. ....
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Shock G laid to rest in private funeral in Tampa The Humpty Hump rapper and producer created Digital Underground and launched Tupac s career Shock G, the producer, artist, and musician who founded Digital Underground passed on April 22 at the age of 57. On Saturday, he was laid to rest in a private funeral in Tampa, Florida that was attended by or featured appearances on video by his peers, including Ronald “Money B” Brooks of Digital Underground, Bootsy Collins, producer Naughty By Nature, Jermaine Dupri, among others, according to As theGrio previously reported, Jacobs was struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues in the months prior to his passing and had been living near family. He was found unresponsive in a Tampa hotel room on April 22. No cause of death has yet been released. ....