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

[hex]

NEVER knew he dissed Run DMC.

But still I agree with him. Everyone from the East hated him, so don't try to be friends now.

Yeah I don't think he's wrong for feeling like that but I don't recall anyone asking where he was, either. It's not like there was some big movement to include MC Hammer, as far as I seen.

Fred.

 

[darealvelle]

I had no issues with Hammer musically. During that time there were different styles of rap being played on the radio, unlike now.

 

[TripleAgent]

NEVER knew he dissed Run DMC.

But still I agree with him. Everyone from the East hated him, so don't try to be friends now.

And LL

On "Let's Get It Started"

 

[Youngblood Priest]

People wasn't clowning him for not being a gangster, and he wasn't one anyway.

Dude went broke paying literally hundreds of people in his entourage. A few of them were willing to crash out, that's it.

People clowned him because he literally became a whore to cross over, in an era where hip-hop was fighting for mainstream acceptance. As is, not some dance/rap/pop hybrid.

EDIT:

Also he dissed RUN DMC for no reason.

Fred.

Well, reading the article, RUNDMC dissed him first. The fukk yall on.

 

[DANJ!]

Oh... how'd I know we were gonna get to enjoy another "MC Hammer was a victim" thread

But this is a good notation for all the internet folk who swore Hammer was being excluded back in August. Turns out he just didn't wanna come cause some nikkas dissed him back in 1991.

 

[Jerz-2]

I misread your post and thought you meant he got clowned for his brand of rap when he was actually a gangster.

Fred.

Respect, fam.

 

[maxamusa]

I haven't heard hammer since my nuts dropped.....who gives AF

 

[hex]

Well, reading the article, RUNDMC dissed him first. The fukk yall on.

Wrong, he admitted he dissed them for no reason prior to that:



Fred.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

I could see if him showing up at the AMA's for the part with PSY and how all these same people switched up to love him again was the reason.

 

[David_TheMan]

Jealousy and a pivot by Jewish record execs to push gangster rap is why they killed hammer and used if orant but hungry for fame rappers to attack him.

We needed more hammers than nwa and public enemy's.

 

[DontEemTry]

The nikka music was and still is corny. So he's right to say him being "accepted" now is probably insincere.

 

[Deltron]

Jealousy and a pivot by Jewish record execs to push gangster rap is why they killed hammer and used if orant but hungry for fame rappers to attack him.

We needed more hammers than nwa and public enemy's.

Leas Public enemy?

 

[David_TheMan]

Leas Public enemy?

Yep

 

[Ribbs]

I get it but, you gotta let some sh*t go Hammer.

 

[Bolzmark]

Hammer has to understand he was a different style of rapper. Very different from the norm. It was inevitable that he received criticism. But a LOT of people LOVED him. I always distinguish him from Vanilla Ice although they are sometimes grouped together. Hammer was genuine. He just wasn't LL or Rakim or any of the typical rappers at the time. He wasn't a lyricist by any stretch of the imagination, but he was an elite performer. He should have performed at one of the big 50th shows.