Songoftheday 3/8/18 - Now it's about time that I cleared this, so pardon me miss but I'd like for you to hear this...
from the album Sons of the P (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from the hip-hop collective Digital Underground, who had a "novelty"-style pop hit in the summer of 1990 with "The Humpty Dance". The following year, they put out an EP (extended play single) called This Is An EP Release, and from it the track "Same Song", which wasn't released as a regular single, nonetheless climbed to #7 on Billboard's R&B airplay chart, popped on to their pop Hot 100 airplay list at #61, and was even their biggest Dance Club Play hit at #15. (The music video featured then-dancer 2Pac in a major role and his own verse.)
In 1992, leader Shock G and the band released their second full-length album Sons of the P. He lead single from the set would be the sexy funk of "Kiss You Back". Sampling Funkadelic's "Knee Deep" from George Clinton, the track would land the group their last pop success...
"Kiss You Back" became the Underground's second and final top-40 pop hit, spending a week there in January of 1992. The record also climbed to #13 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the song hit the top-40 in New Zealand at #31, and slipped on to the Australian singles chart at #97. The follow-up single, "No Nose Job", missed the pop chart, but peaked at #28 on the R&B list.
In 1993, the group returned with their The Body-Hat Syndrome album, which produced two minor R&B hits, with "The Return Of The Crazy One" doing the best at #77. Leaving Tommy Boy after a lukewarm reception to that record, they went independent in 1996 with Future Rhythm, which sent "Oregano Flow" (a pun take on Enya's new age anthem "Orinoco Flow") (#75 R&B) and their final charting hit, "Walk Real Kool" (#95 R&B). After one more album, Who Got The Gravy?, in 1998, which went to #91 on the R&B albums tally, Shock G shut down the Digital Underground for a decade, only to return in 2008 for one final album, Cuz A D.U. Party Don't Stop.
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Here's the guys fooling the Showtime at the Apollo crowd before tearing up the song ...
And Shock G from a solo gig in 2014...
Up tomorrow: Built British brothers are overstimulating.
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