Name: Sex Packets
Brand: Digital Underground

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TBMU1026.1

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Translucent Blue Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

016998102619

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Total Cap

Blue LP

81026

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1997-01-01

WEA /­ ADA

016998102626

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Digital Underground

Genre US

Hip Hop

Label US

Digital Underground is a group of rappers and DJs led by Shock G, formed in Oakland in 1987. Their music is heavily influenced by George Clinton and his groups Parliament and Funkadelic, evident in their grooves and surreal humor. The group's first record was the 1987 single "Underwater Rimes" by TNT Records. By 1989, when Digital Underground signed with Tommy Boy, there were seven members.

Their debut album on Tommy Boy, "Sex Packets," featured hit singles like "Doowhutchyalike" and "The Humpty Dance," showcasing Shock G's alter ego Humpty Hump. The album went platinum due to the success of "The Humpty Dance." In 1991, they released "This Is An EP Release," which included songs used in the dark comedy film "Nothing But Trouble." This EP marked Tupac Shakur's first recording with the group.

As the '90s progressed, hardcore gangsta artists dominated the rap charts, making Digital Underground's lighthearted and off-kilter music less commercially viable. Despite introducing another successful solo rapper Saafir, their 1993 album "The Body-Hat Syndrome" had minimal chart impact. After a three-year hiatus, they returned with albums like "Future Rhythm" (1996) and "Who's Got the Gravy?" (1998).

This huge, cartoonish Californian crew, helmed by concept-man Shock-G, seized on the ultra-bassy funk woob-woob of Parliament-Funkadelic as the platform for its ensemble tomfoolery. At its best, it's inspired, daffy give-and-take that you can shake your rump to, especially on the hits "Doowutchalike" and "The Humpty Dance" and the ridiculous aquatic hip-hop fantasia "Underwater Rimes." At times, though, an uncomfortable current of leering misogyny surfaces. The disc ends with a suite of tracks about an imaginary safe-sex drug, the "sex packets" of the title. The concept gets stretched pretty thin, but "Packet Man," a cunning dialogue between Shock G (as a dealer) and his Groucho-nosed alter ego Humpty Hump (as his customer), is outright adorable.

Sex Packets

Music US