Keep It Beautiful: Shock G and Digital Underground — Hardcover

Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs shares the world behind Digital Underground in a fully illustrated memoir assembled with photographer and close friend Alexis Wolfe Mbassa. Photographs, handwritten material, artwork, storyboards, and personal history reveal the playful, soulful, and visionary mind behind “The Humpty Dance” and an important chapter of early hip-hop.

BOOK DETAILS

• Author: Alexis Wolfe Mbassa, Gregory E. Jacobs
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Publication date: August 25, 2026
• Page count: 240
• Dimensions: 0.91 x 10.25 x 8.3 IN

KEY THEMES

• Shock G
• Digital Underground
• Hip-Hop Memoir
• Illustrated Memoir
• Tupac Shakur

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WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT

Part memoir, part art book, and pure Funkyverse, this volume preserves Shock G’s creative voice in a format as colorful and multidimensional as the artist himself.

PRODUCT TYPE

Illustrated Hip-Hop Memoirs