Two Reported Members Of Digital Underground Arrested
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).