Cormega gives MC Hammer his flowers. Hammer responds in the comments

[_DC]

Nikka hate Hammer..

 

[Zero]

Yeah if you've got nostalgia over some music you liked as a kid then that's cool but we've got to stop acting like everything that came out in the 90s and earlier was great and classic.

Mfs made a thread praising Mase's Double Up

It gets to be YouTube comment status at times

 

[Taadow]

Hammer/Fresh Prince VERSUZ, set it up.

 

[Pop123]

Hammer/Fresh Prince VERSUZ, set it up.

Hammer would smoke him performance wise but Will got the records.

Girls Aint Nothing but Trouble
Parents Just Don't Understand
Brand New Funk
Miami
Gettin Jiggy
Wild Wild West
MIB
Just the two of us...to bring the crowd back down
Then close it out with "Summertime" and they explode
...then surprise them with the Fresh Prince theme and really close it out

Pack Hammer tf up easy.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Breh, I have been looking ALL OVER for this

+rep

 

[Jigganaut]

Just because you didn’t rock with him doesn’t mean he didn’t have a run.. That’s what you type of nikkas do. You think how you feel about some shyt is gospel for all. Nikka, he had hit records cartoons & dolls. And made sure his people ate.. He had his moment. It’s not debatable.

He's a high minded scholastic type that dates exclusively white women but thinks he's better than you. Smart dude but yeah you know the type. These folks blackness is looked at through a weird lens that ain't real.

 

[_DC]

He's a high minded scholastic type that dates exclusively white women but thinks he's better than you. Smart dude but yeah you know the type. These folks blackness is looked at through a weird lens that ain't real.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

The funniest thing about hammer was When He got signed to dearh row. Everyone clowed him for trying to act street cause he was on death row and dropped pumps and a bump.
When the whole time the death row hammer was the "real"÷ hammer and 2legit hammer was the "fake" hammer

 

[Walt]

He's a high minded scholastic type that dates exclusively white women but thinks he's better than you. Smart dude but yeah you know the type. These folks blackness is looked at through a weird lens that ain't real.

 

[jadillac]

I had my Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em tape in 4th grade and clearly remember my uncle commenting on how rap was such a bad thing.

Hammer deserves all the props for taking rap to a level it had never seen, and possibly hasn't seen since. Dolls, cartoons, endorsements, etc. He went broke by trying to put everyone else on and doing too much at a time there was no manual for what he was living in

He's gotten enough flak over the years, he deserves some props.

He wasn't trying to be lyrical miracle type rap. It was PG kids music.

 

[CoryMack]

People had a lot of issues with Hammer, some were actually justified though.

He's a legend and I always thought his music was cool for a certain kind of listener. But what MC's at the time didn't like, was that Hip Hop was in a stage where it was trying to be taken seriously and Hammer was basically doing the opposite. the culture was very afrocentric and anti-establishment. And if you did any endorsements, you were supposed to do sh*t that spoke to Hip Hop and its core values. Hammer once again, did the opposite, and was dancing with a bucket of chicken in his arms. LOL!!

So in '91, this was definitely seen as shuckin' and jivin', and for the culture, the definition of selling out. The dancing aspect to his act wasn't seen as Hip Hop. If you were an artist back then, you would get dancers, but you weren't supposed to be dancing harder than your actual dancers, lol. So that was a tough sell for a lot of MC's back then because the dancing was kinda the only thing Hammer was good at. He wasn't really an MC or even rapper. He was a dancer. But mainstream America would push him as the biggest Hip Hop artist, in commercials and all that, and then dude would just start dancing all crazy. That's what got him hated on.

It wasn't that he was doing deals. A lot of rappers had deals and cartoons back then. Kid & Play and Tone Loc come to mind. A lot of other rappers had commercials pitching soda, beer, and all kinds of sh*t, but no one ever called them a sellout. Hammer was an entertainer. And people like Cube and Tribe wanted him to be called "pop" and not Hip Hop because they didn't see a dancing dude as one of them, and I get it. His impact was crazy, but I think the dancing all over the place thing, is really what bothered MC's back then. Everyone wants to hop on Hammer's d*ck now, but back in the day, no one wanted to show him any love. But the truth is, Hammer did sell out, and was a driving force in watering down the culture. His whole repetoire felt very minstrel back then.

This isn't necessarily true. Big Daddy Kane danced as hard as Scoob and Scrap and so did alotta other rappers. Erick Sermon, Heavy D, Kid and Play, etc.

Hammer's first album was hard. When his second album crossed over and he blew up the way he did alotta rappers got jealous.

I remember watching Will Smith perform Wild Wild West with Sisqo on some award show when that song was big and I briefly felt sorry for Hammer because that was Hammer 10 years prior. He was just ahead of his time with the big stage shows and commercials and big crossover hits.

The KFC commercial was too much, but alotta other celebs did that shyt too.

 

[3rdWorld]

weasels in here hatin would’ve definitely got seen by them Oakland nikkax just like their favorite rappers did back in the day

Hehehe

That man took dozens of people from the hood on tour to work, dancers got on and brehs got the chance to work as stage hands etc..no way he isn't a legend in Oakland.

 

[SunZoo]

I think it's fine to look back on Hammer fondly in hindsight. He was 'elementary' rap, mostly for kids and the pop tart charts which is why he was loved and hated.

Givin it up for him as an entertainer, as someone who opened doors commercially is something I can rock with. But let's be honest in the same breath. In real time, a lot of people had plenty of justifiable gripes with him and his influence on the culture.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I think it's fine to look back on Hammer fondly in hindsight. He was 'elementary' rap, mostly for kids and the pop tart charts which is why he was loved and hated.

Givin it up for him as an entertainer, as someone who opened doors commercially is something I can rock with. But let's be honest in the same breath. In real time, a lot of people had plenty of justifiable gripes with him and his influence on the culture.

When Hammer blew up with the success of the Don't Hurt Em album is where things got too crazy. His first 2 albums were in the same vein as the Kid n Play and others around that time who had that "lane" of hip hop. He was definitely the father of the "secure the bag" with this commercial crossover shyt.

this commercial was too much tho. he got "too" commercial thus the image switch with the Funky Headhunter album.

Music may have been wack to many and was PG rated rap, but he wasn't a c00n and definitely should get some respect put on his name. Music wasn't my cup of tea, but I didn't hate dude.

 

[Mindfield333]

I was like 6 or 7 at his absolute height of popularity, so I remember singing some of his songs and seeing his commercials. lol I remember getting in trouble for singing “we gonna turn this Mutha out“