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Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground

Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground

Mbassa, Alexis Wolfe
Jacobs, Gregory E.

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0593796322
ISBN13: 9780593796320
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 2.37
Height: 0.91 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.25
Language: English
Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking The Humpty Dance, producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic I Get Around, and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground, Shock G shares his story in Keep It Beautiful.

This fully illustrated memoir by Gregory Shock G Jacobs, as told to Alexis Wolfe Mbassa, captures the eternal vibrance of his style--playful, soulful, colorful, and profound. In Keep It Beautiful, music lovers and 80s and 90s nostalgists will find a rare lens into the early days of hip-hop when it was an underground urban movement flirting with mainstream culture--bringing new takes on club classics and new style to the nightlife and street scenes. Curated by close friend and artist, Alexis Wolfe Mbassa, this stunning, full-color work offers a never-before-seen glimpse into the genesis of Shock G's group, Digital Underground, which launched the music career of rap icon Tupac Shakur.

Keep It Beautiful (one of Shock G's well-known sayings) combines traditional memoir, photographs, lyrics, the artist's own illustrations and storyboards, handwriting, and photography to create an appealing package that is both keepsake book and a deeper look into the mind of an artist.

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