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

[Cakebatter]

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.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

his music and style leaned into the entertainment side of things. It wasn't ridiculous. There was balance. There were rappers that were the completely opposite. But Hammer was a huge act at his peak, selling out arenas with people from the hood. This idea that hammer was laughed at and was seen as a joke is revisionist history.

He was but it wasn't as bad as people are saying.

 

[heart]

Hammer took a lot flack back in the day

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.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Majority of rappers wasn’t about the streets and only rap the gangster/tough shyt so they could impress the street nikkas and be in them nikkas circles..

U see it wit LL, Nas, Murder inc, nikkas wanted to be down and know they not about the street life, let me used my talent in rap to get more closer to them nikkas

Studio Gangstas on the mic >>> Real gangstas on the mic , friend.

 

[Rakim Allah]

He was but it wasn't as bad as people are saying.

Now it’s not but compared to rap music that was out at the time it was. Hip Hop/Rap fans weren’t checking for MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Snap, Geraldo, CC & The Music Factory, and etc like that, friend.

 

[Rakim Allah]

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.

He was always a cool solid dude. He got flack/hate from Hip Hop community for his rap music not from casuals and the R&B/Pop audience, friend.

 

[King Poetic]

Studio Gangstas on the mic >>> Real gangstas on the mic , friend.

Im not talking about that

Im talking about for example a nikka like ice cube who wasn’t in the streets and talking gangster shyt, sit up and clown someone like Hammer who him and his brother was in streets at one time just for Cube and others like him to try to act like they really this gangster image and they really not,, but when hammer approached these nikkas they apologizing

 

[Digital Omen]

his music and style leaned into the entertainment side of things. It wasn't ridiculous. There was balance. There were rappers that were the completely opposite. But Hammer was a huge act at his peak, selling out arenas with people from the hood. This idea that hammer was laughed at and was seen as a joke is revisionist history.

I was in 8th/9th grade when he was on top of the charts and I can assure you it's not revisionist history. He was laughed at and clowned by Hip Hop heads AND artists. Major label artists too, not angry underground backpackers:



Run-DMC and EPMD openly clowned him in a video that was on heavy rotation on MTV, BET and The Box. But of course he went at the white boys:

Spoiler

Yes he was connected in the streets of the town and wasn't a punk. That's how it goes in Hip Hop: the ones that you think are "soft" are actually the opposite (Hammer, De La). He was dissed and clowned because of his image and crossing over to the pop audience, which was a big no-no back then.

Every self-respecting Gen X Hip Hop head including myself will deny deny deny to their grave that they bought Hammer and Vanilla Ice albums. Those 30 mil they sold must have all been bought by Nebraskan suburban moms then.

 

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[Rakim Allah]

Im not talking about that

Im talking about for example a nikka like ice cube who wasn’t in the streets and talking gangster shyt, sit up and clown someone like Hammer who him and his brother was in streets at one time just for Cube and others like him to try to act like they really this gangster image and they really not,, but when hammer approached these nikkas they apologizing

Cube was dissing his trash ass music. He diss all those pop rap acts.

The only rappers Hammer checked that was verified was 3rd Bass. I take YouTube gossip and stories with a grain of salt at best, friend.

 

[8WON6]

I was in 8th/9th grade when he was on top of the charts and I can assure you it's not revisionist history. He was laughed at and clowned by Hip Hop heads AND artists. Major label artists too, not angry underground backpackers:



Run-DMC and EPMD openly clowned him in a video that was on heavy rotation on MTV, BET and The Box. But of course he went at the white boys:

Spoiler

Yes he was connected in the streets of the town and wasn't a punk. That's how it goes in Hip Hop: the ones that you think are "soft" are actually the opposite (Hammer, De La). He was dissed and clowned because of his image and crossing over to the pop audience, which was a big no-no back then.

Every self-respecting Gen X Hip Hop head including myself will deny deny deny to their grave that they bought Hammer and Vanilla Ice albums. Those 30 mil they sold must have all been bought by Nebraskan suburban moms then.

while he was being clowned by 3rd Bass....lol...Hammer was selling out arenas and people in the hood fukked with Hammer. Again, this idea that hammer was a laughing stock BY FANS is revisionist history.

 

[Rakim Allah]

I was in 8th/9th grade when he was on top of the charts and I can assure you it's not revisionist history. He was laughed at and clowned by Hip Hop heads AND artists. Major label artists too, not angry underground backpackers:



Run-DMC and EPMD openly clowned him in a video that was on heavy rotation on MTV, BET and The Box. But of course he went at the white boys:

Spoiler

Yes he was connected in the streets of the town and wasn't a punk. That's how it goes in Hip Hop: the ones that you think are "soft" are actually the opposite (Hammer, De La). He was dissed and clowned because of his image and crossing over to the pop audience, which was a big no-no back then.

Every self-respecting Gen X Hip Hop head including myself will deny deny deny to their grave that they bought Hammer and Vanilla Ice albums. Those 30 mil they sold must have all been bought by Nebraskan suburban moms then.

There was too much classic rap music out there during that time to be wasting my little money on the likes of Hammer and Vanilla Ice, friend.

 

[NormanConnors]

Hammer wildin', he woudn't have had any success without hiphop, pay your respects

Quite a few cats were looking for him to be there and represent.

 

[O.G.B]

So we're going to lie to ourselves and act like his music and style wasn't ridiculous.

 

[Rakim Allah]

while he was being clowned by 3rd Bass....lol...Hammer was selling out arenas and people in the hood fukked with Hammer. Again, this idea that hammer was a laughing stock BY FANS is revisionist history.

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