Old head , how big was MC hammer in this prime ?

[bucks3115]

Pause for that little

Classic shyt




The swag , those dance




Was he really the Michael Jackson of hip hop at time ?

How was the impact when he dropped the album that sold 10 million copies ?

 

[lurker emeritus]

looks like you've answered your own questions.

 

[SunZoo]

Lil nikkas in the streaming era don't understand the "Saturday morning cartoon" and how big of a deal it was to be able to sit down as a kid on the weekend with your cereal and watch all the dope cartoons that you couldn't really see during the week...but the nikka had his own Saturday morning cartoon, and that's just one of his feats as a commercial draw.



He was bigly.

 

[Food Mane]

He was huge, him and MJ were beefing if that helps put things in perspective.

 

[Living Bait]

please Hammer!...don't hurt em

 

[cheek100]

He was a mainstream artist that danced and showed teeth all the time. Real heads laughed at him.

 

[hex]

So big that after a certain point it wasn't really cool to like him if you were a straight up hip-hop/rap fan. He was the man when I was in middle school....by 9th grade (which was around the time he started doing commercials, movies, cartoons, toys, etc.) he was considered a clown.

Keep in mind this was before most rappers (and by extension) rap fans gave a fukk about mainstream acceptance. So actively trying to cross over and/or go mainstream was frowned upon.

I'm not saying it was right but that's just how it was.

Fred.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Was he really the Michael Jackson of hip hop at time ?

How was the impact when he dropped the album that sold 10 million copies ?

yes

 

[MrRDU]

Dude won a Grammy & took damn near 50 people on stage with him lol

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Dude was making so much money that he gave everyone from his hood jobs. He had his Adam's Family video premier on Fox in primetime. At the time Run DMC we're the only rappers to cross over to pop music like that and Hammer eclipsed them easily

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

He was a mainstream artist that danced and showed teeth all the time. Real heads laughed at him.

You mean real hip hop heads? Hammer was real even though the music wasn't all that.

 

[bucks3115]

You mean real hip hop heads? Hammer was real even though the music wasn't all that.

Yup i heard rappers tellin story abt hammer

Dude was abt that life

 

[cheek100]

You mean real hip hop heads? Hammer was real even though the music wasn't all that.

We didn’t know he was real til the circus was over. I did however learn to respect him as a man but during his hey day it was total with all that glitter and grinning. Don’t even get me started when he did the chicken commercial.

 

[SunZoo]

We didn’t know he was real til the circus was over. I did however learn to respect him as a man but during his hey day it was total with all that glitter and grinning. Don’t even get me started when he did the chicken commercial.

I wasn't expecting to find one with the commercial and the Paul Mooney audio together, that makes it even more funny.

"What's it gonna be next week, watermelon chicken? Is this nikkas mama still alive?"

 

[mr.africa]

we were watching his cartoons every saturday mornings.....all the way over here in africa.
he was big.