The Daily Swarm

PRWEB (nice audio on the press release):

Jake Records is proud to announce the signing of west coast superstars Digital Underground to the label. The multi-platinum selling artists best known for smash hits like “The Humpty Dance,” “Freaks Of The Industry,” “Doowutchalike,” and “Oregano Flow” will be releasing an all new full-length album very soon.

This release, unique in several ways, will mark the end of an era. Digital Underground has announced that this will be their last official studio album. The group plans to disband afterwards, to focus on solo projects. The new album also becomes the first in the group’s catalog that features several live tracks featuring some of their well-known hits and all-time crowd favorites.

Jake Records CEO Scott Thomas says the label is both excited and honored to be working with such a legendary group. “I’m a lifelong Digital Underground fan first and foremost, so the idea of being involved in this last album is both very special, and thrilling,” Thomas says. “Having shaped so many careers over the past 20 years, and always managing to have a good time while doing it, Digital Underground should be praised for always keeping it fun and lighthearted,” he adds.

“It’s gonna be a fun adventure working this album with Scott & everybody at Jake,” said Digital Underground front man Shock-G of the label. “As fans as well as close friends, they know our strengths & highlights, even better than we do” he said.

The album’s official street date has not been set, but is tentatively planned for late May or early June 2008. The album will be made available in stores, and via major online retailers.

Learn more about Jake Records at www.jakerecords.com. Digital Underground can be found on MySpace at www.myspace.com/humptyfunk or at www.shockg.com

Shock G:

(..from “Producing a Young Genius” a new full-length book I’m in the process of writing now)
The next chapter goes on to tell the story of the video, and the near-disaster of the small tour during the Jack the Rapper convention in Atlanta inwhich we attempted to perform the song together.
Other chapter titles are, “Rumble in the Jungle” (..the insane story of Pacs first solo live show in Marin County; 70 shots fired!), “Mansion Party; The ’Get Around’ Video Story”, “So Many Tears; The Me Against The World Sessions”, “The Rebel Arrives; The Early Sessions”, including the studio storys of “Same Song”, “Tha Lunatic”, “Trapped”, “Words of Wisdom”, “Fuck the World”, “Rebel of the Underground”, “Wussup wit the Luv”, “So Many Tears” and more. Also included will be chapters recalling our tour experiences during The d.u. Japan Tour, The Budwieser Superfest, The Public Enemy Tour, and the Heavy-D & the Boys Tour including Pacs’ reaction to losing his close tour pal “T-Roy” (R.I.P.), as well as the juicy details of his dramatic freestyle sessions with his girl YoYo, Flava-Flav, MC Serch, Ed Lover, and many others; I was on the piano at all of them.
The book will chronical my 6 years, 4 tours, 19 studio sessions, 7 video shoots, 13 house parties, 2 courtroom cases, 5 basketball games, 3 streetfights, 4 arrests/police run-ins, dozens of tag-team girl trade-off experiences inwhich I was side by side with Tupac, and what it was like to record the young genius in the early years of his career, a time that he himself called the best time of his life.
An oral/DVD version will also be available for those who prefer to just hear me/watch me tell it.

COMING SOON: 2009 !! Check for it Pac fans, it will be the deepest Pac biography yet! I promiss.

Idolator:

The chapter excerpted on the blog also catalogs the making of Tupac’s classic single “I Get Around,” which upon subsequent re-examination was probably an admission of a proclivity for orgies that may or may not have occurred in Burger King bathrooms. Not only does the post reveal that Tupac wrote Shock’s lyrics for “I Get Around,” it includes an explanation of the phrase, “I’m Shock G, the one who put the satin on your panties.” Though much of the focus of the still in-progress book appears to be on Tupac, here’s hoping that Shock devotes at least a few chapters to such burning questions as: how close the group came to inventing “Sex Packets”; “how to properly get stupid and shoot an arrow like cupid”; “how to doowhatchalike while still finding time to be career-driven”; “the best ways to shimmy, shimmy cocoa pop”; and, of course, “how to not let being skinny stop you from getting busy.”