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Two Reported Members Of Digital Underground Arrested

Suspects charged with felony sex abuse are part of rap group, according to AP.

Two men who are reportedly members of Digital Underground were arrested

early Sunday morning for allegedly sexually abusing a woman backstage at

the rap group's concert in Little Rock, Ark., police said.

Kyle James Eastern and Michael Sheldon Pierson were charged with felony

sexual abuse and taken to Pulaski County Jail. Eastern, 21, who also was

charged with marijuana possession, was released on $2,000 bond, a jail

spokesperson said. Pierson, 30, was released on $2,500 bond.

The two were identified as members of Digital Underground by the

Associated Press, but Little Rock police Lt. John Hutchinson said

he did not know whether they were group members.

An employee at Jake Records, which released Digital Underground's Who

Got the Gravy? (1998), referred questions to the group's manager, who

could not be reached for comment Monday (Nov. 29).

The two men allegedly forced the 21-year-old woman into a women's restroom

at the Hall of Industry and then kissed and fondled her without her consent,

Hutchinson said.

"She pointed out and identified both suspects to officers," he said.

Digital Underground was founded in Oakland, Calif., in 1987 by Shock G

(born Gregory Jacobs), who rapped in a nasal voice and Groucho Marx glasses

under the alter ego Humpty Hump for the 1990 hit "Humpty Dance." The late

Tupac Shakur was a peripheral member of the group briefly in the early

'90s.

Who Got the Gravy? includes the song "The Odd Couple" (RealAudio

excerpt).

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