Can you people believe that Tamboosh has never heard “The Humpty Dance”, Digital Underground’s 1989 #11 hit? This is for her…
According to the Wikipedia, Digital Underground supposedly started as a black power-y group, but took “a more whimsical direction, that of an updated Parliament-Funkadelic for the hip-hop audience” after Public Enemy became popular. Humpty Hump was the stage name of Edward G. Humphreys, a rapper who had suffered severe burns in a kitchen fire and wore that fake nose to cover it up. Except that he was really just Shock-G in disguise and on-stage diversions would allow him to switch from one to the other during performances.
“The Humpty Dance” isn’t really Digital Underground’s best song (“Doowutchyalike”, “Same Song”, and “Kiss You Back” are all classics), but featuring the classic lines “I get stoopid, I shoot an arrow like Cupid / I use a word that don’t mean nothin’, like looptid”, it sure is the silliest.
Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
Filed under: Music, Poptastic Day Tagged: | Digital Underground, Hip Hop
Your WRONG The Humpty Dance came out in 1990 lol! Not 1989 It even says it in Digital Underground myspace!