… Andy Kaufman having two or three characters too; I always thought that was funny. My mom used to tell me about all the Saturday Night Live cast, how they would fool the [company] president and sometimes come in dressed a certain way to scare NBC. I liked the practical joke thing. I didn’t plan it. I get a lot of credit; people are like, ‘Shock is genius—he got Humpty for this, and Shock G for the…’ But it just evolved.
“There was a point when the whole group were like, ‘Wait, wait, wait—you don’t look all the way Humpty yet—let me see—the pants! The pants ain’t Humpty. Better pants, better pants. Yeah, all right. I think he should go in with two girls, you need another girl.'”
“It was so fun to do that I just would do it. Not so much for business purpose, and not so much for artistic purposes, but it was just so much fun. It was like having the Joker in my pocket.”
“Then I started realizing how lucky I was to have this band member who doesn’t complain, who I don’t get the extra plane ticket for, and is always in the studio anytime I need him. Who I can pay, but keep his money… So on paper: “We got to split this four ways: T. Shakur, Money B, G. Jacobs, E. Humphrey,” because Humpty’s verse counted; it mattered.”