Why? That obviously wasn't shot in HarlemLOL why not post the "original" Pumps In a Bump video
MC Hammer is the hero we didn't deserve.
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Facts.
It seems like a lot of people that don't remember the height of Hammer career talk crazy about him. But Hammer was a huge act, and black people loved Hammer. People can go check out that "We're all in the same gang" video. How the people in the background acted different when hammer was on the set compared to all those other "harder" rappers. There was balance in rap, so you could listen to Hammer and other types of rappers too.
Even when he went to death row he still had heat, but folks simply did not want anything to do with him. Damn shame because I'm sure Hammer could have had a 2nd run during the Shiny Suit era.
Clark Griswold
Banned
If you weren’t around back in the early 90s you wouldn’t understand... back then selling out in hip-hop was frowned upon unlike today... and the average hip-hop listener back then wasn’t having it...
Hammer was samb0 and c00ning when he made that video with those ridiculous pants... that song and video was Hammer’s crossover into the white audience... back then that would have been considered wack...
And coupled with the KFC commercial...
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we could use some balanced energy
get back to those good vibes
that wave brings people together in a positive pleasant way
it's dope to see
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get back to those good vibes
that wave brings people together in a positive pleasant way
it's dope to see
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Brolic Scholar
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Yup. Breh was of the culture AND uplifting Black people. I can see if breh was a self centered mega star but dude literally was giving everything he had to the people, OVERPAYING people, giving everyone he knew and everyone they knew any kind of job to get them off the street. As an adult it is actually disgusting how he was treated and really makes me sad.
Oh, I know. Dude wasn’t a punk.
MC Search found out.
The struggle of a black man in America. The simple fact Hammer did not conform to stereotypes of being a "savage", a White man felt he was more of the culture than a Black man being positive and giving back more than anyone at the time to his community. It's disgusting as hell man.
You'd think breh was running round with white chicks c00ning but nah dude was solid
90% of the people who clowned Hammer "sold out" when they got that call though.
He didn't sell out. He's did the same thing all these rappers try to do now - have their music crossover, get endorsements, do tv and movies, and do something in fashion.
He was decades ahead of his time. Even in going broke.
He was also more G than most gangster rappers
he was a real bay area street nikka, nikkas had to learn the hard way.
More reason why breh stuck to positive music. When you been through struggle you want to have fun when you make it big and when you do talk about the streets it's via story telling more so than glorifying the condition many black people are in.
Telling a story about something dark and sad vs bragging about killing folks is two very different things.
Clark Griswold
Banned
Yeah the rappers today are sell outs as well...
You youngsters don’t understand... back in the day there was NO money in hip-hop and to accept a CORPORATE endorsement meant that you were letting the SUITS into the culture, the culture vultures. When the culture vultures invade the culture they sanitize, appropriate, and “white bread” the culture.
Hip-hop in the 80s and early 90s was about the art form NOT selling yourself out for crumbs from the vulture’s table...
