MC Hammer Explains Why He Hasn't Participated In Any Of The 50 Years Of Hip Hop Tributes

[Rakim Allah]

Tapes I had in my walkman rotation when I started 9th grade: AMW, Edutainment, To the East Blackwards, One for All, It's a Compton Thang...just off the top. Next to those, Hammer and Vanilla didn't even exist.

Exactly.

Rap music from the Bay, I would rather listen to this in 1990, friend.

 

[Dynamite James]

Some of it was warranted like the popeyes chicken commercial which is on the same c00nish/cringe level of Jerry Rice's helmet chicken commercial.

But other than that Hammer tried to bring everyone with him from The Town, took care of thousands of people financially, gave them a chance to tour and see the world and by all accounts he is a good, sincere guy so I never got the hate and why so many comedians made him the butt of jokes in the 90s/00s just because he went bankrupt when most of these entertainers, especially rappers are broke themselves.

People pick and choose when t they call something “c00nish” ain’t nothing wrong with black folks publicly liking chicken or dancing. No one said shyt about this:

 

[O.G.B]

Weirdo, following me from another thread.

You're a complete goofy & a nobody.

You getting checked for the MC Hammer slander.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

Hammer took a lot flack back in the day

The irony is Hammer was a real street dude and checked both Redman and Pac.

Hammer got a lot of flack for promoting positive dance music. The Hip Hop community criticized him, said he was a sellout

Hammer was innovative, the first rapper to do commercials. Other rappers started following suite.

Regardless of the slander, Hammer was ahead of his time. You Can't Touch This remains a timeless classic

 

[Big Boss]

Rappers were jealous of Hammers success. As soon as Hammer fell off all the East Coast rappers who clowned Hammer or remained quiet scooped up the endorsements Hammer left behind. Did anyone clown Heavy D for his Sprite commercials? They hated him because they wanted to be him. Hammer also employed a shyt ton of black folks, to a fault. If Im not mistaken, Hammer challenged MJ to a dance off and MJ ducked and dodged it. So hammer clowned MJ in one of his videos having James Brown call Hammer his Godson.

 

[Big Boss]

damn i forgot pac diss hammer

 

[Rakim Allah]

The best thing Hammer did, besides his stage show, was put these brothers out.

Nia Long and Mari Morrow





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, friends.

 

[Cakebatter]

If that was the case why did De La base their Buhloone Mindstate promo campaign on this phrase:

I was there. You're free to believe what you want but the magazines, video shows, radio shows, the artists themselves, and every Hip Hop head I ever met took a firm "No sell out" "strictly underground funk, keep the cross over" stance. That all changed thanks to The Chronic (huge cross over smash) which in turn inspired...

That time in 1993 where artists had to switch up and go hardcore

That Gangsta shyt made the industry do a 360... Look at Run DMC: Mc Hammer: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince Even Vanilla Ice switched his whole shyt and tried to rap like Das Efx :mjlol::russ:

www.thecoli.com

I was there too. Crush Groove released in 85, Disorderlies in 87, Tougher than Leather released in 88, Heavy D did a Sprite commercial in 1990. All attempts by East Coast rappers to go mainstream before The Chronic released.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

60-years-old


He don't look it...

In all seriousness, this stance seems in line with how he's nearly always presented himself, which is authentic. Good for him, especially maintaining that at his age.

I know you’re female but some of the posters who heart dapped this

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

I don't like Hammer because he was the biggest hypocrite. First he rapped about positivity and about God. Then he switched up and rapped about violence, pimping hoes and killing people. And in reality he was putting out hits on nikkas

 

[Dynamite James]

Being a kid in this era

 

[BobbyWojak]

You're a complete goofy & a nobody.

You getting checked for the MC Hammer slander.

You trying to be funny now? Leave me alone tf.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Being a kid in this era

Special Generation made this a nice song, friend.

 

[The God Poster]

If y’all didn’t have kid dance battles at the BBQs, yall grew up in the weirdo era.



We used to hoop, dance, roast and fight as kids.

In that order

 

[8WON6]

Yeah, the overwhelmingly majority of people were not rap fans like that, let alone fans of the culture of Hip Hop, friend.

pop fans loved him, Hip Hop heads didn't. Believe it or not there was a time when "crossing over" "selling out" "going pop" were major sins in Hip Hop. Hammer and Vanilla were seen as the embodiment of that and clearly Hammer is fully aware as you can see from him not fukking with Hip Hop 50.

Black people, in the hood, fukked with Hammer. Simple fact. This idea that hammer was a laughing stock is again, revisionist history.