"Pac discovered us, man, we didn’t discover his ass. No way."

Tupac Shakur and Gregory Jacobs (known to the world as Digital Underground frontman Shock G) held an invaluable place in each other's lives. Shakur was the fiery son of Black Panthers who would begin his career with Digital Underground, the Hip-Hop hop group from Oakland, en route to becoming a cultural icon like Biggie Smalls.

Shock G was the George Clinton-worshipping musical genius who would help launch Pac into orbit through their collaborations while establishing his own legacy as an artist and producer, working on tracks not only with Pac but also Dr. Dre and KRS-One. “It’s a lucky thing in the other direction," Shock G would explain to Rolling Stone in 2017.

On the surface, their brotherhood may have seemed unlikely, but their connection was a catalyst for both men's creativity. Their special connection was brought to the popular eye again with a viral Twitter clip of Shock G around the time of the Los Angeles premier of the Tupac biopic, All Eyez on Me, in 2017.

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