Shock G

Featuring: 2Pac

Songwriter: 2Pac Shock G

Producer: Shock G

[Verse 1: Shock G]
You arrogant trapped little suckers always bragging
But we ain't trying to hear that dragging
Still never catch the Undeground lagging
Now close your mouth punk, your bottom lips starting to sag, yeah
But when you dance away, she can't imagine
I see you little wheezy thirty-one tail wagging
The beats funky and the music's strong
This song's to let you know you got us wrong
Quit crashing, breaking all the rules when you suffer, that's crashing
'Cause we love to represent black music with a passion
It ain't our fault that your brand new 2 is out of fashion
I got nothing against the music education
But see the situation, is when you say we're not musicians
Well I'm here let you know, it ain't necessarily so
And we continue to flow, yo Tu' let's blow

[Chorus: Shock G & 2Pac]
It ain't necessarily so (It ain't necessarily so)
It ain't necessarily so (It ain't necessarily so)

[Verse 2: 2Pac]
So I ain't Branford, and I don't play the sax
We only gettin' in booth, kicking 'em black tracks
But they don't wanna give my props up
Got ya nerve severing an RnB slop up
I can't figure, I guess it makes you feel bigger
Looking down on us Underground niggas
Oh no, fuckin' around and slip low
Swinging what for? Not necessarily so
Nice to meet ya, I see [?]
Got clout, sold out, now your ass is cute
So you point your finger at up and coming, you feel dumb and
Because I'm young and still stunnin'
Do what you like, no one can say what the fuck I write
You don't like? Well fight and I'll be nothing nice
You trick ho, my shit makes you slip low
A young bro saying it ain't necessarily so

[Verse 2: Shock G]
Down for the music we use
Not 'cause we getting money, but because we choose—

Shock G is a rapper and producer known as the leader of the hip-hop group Digital Underground. Born Gregory Jacobs on August 25, 1963 in New York City, his rap name came from his cousin, who originally named him “Shah-G” before it was changed to Shock G. He relocated to Tampa, Florida, where he became a radio DJ on WTMP when he was 16 years old. After working with local Tampa artists through the mid-1980s, he moved to Los Angeles before settling in the Bay Area.

He worked in a music store before establishing Digital Underground with Chopmaster J and Kenny-K. They distributed a single independently in 1998 before being signed to Tommy Boy and releasing their platinum debut album Sex Packets in 1990, featuring the singles “Doowutchyalike”, “Freaks of the Industry”, and the smash hit “The Humpty Dance”, performed by Shock G’s alter ego Humpty Hump.

Following the release of Sex Packets, Shock G discovered a young rapper named Tupac Shakur, who was a roadie for Digital Underground before he was featured on the D.U.’s single “Same Song” in 1991. Shock G would work with 2Pac on his first three albums, and he was featured on 2Pac’s breakthrough hit “I Get Around”. Shock G would go on to release several albums with Digital Underground, his Fear of a Mixed Planet solo album, and he made a notable appearance on the remix to the Luniz hit single “I Got 5 On It”.

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