I’m old enough to have experienced the deaths of some musical heroes, like George Harrison, or more recently, Prince. Yet none hit me as hard as the news that Greg “Shock-G” Jacobs, leader of the hip-hop crew Digital Underground, was found dead in a Tampa hotel room on April 22, 2021. I got to know Shock over the past two decades, and seeing a raft of notices of his death feels vastly different than it did for any of these other idols.
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