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

[Elim Garak]

I get it but he's making a mistake imo.

 

[Digital Omen]

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.

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.

 

[YakSpiller]

Stoney Jackson went hard on this one

CB4 is still easily Chris Rock's funniest movie

Facts

One of the funniest parts of that movie is when the little sister was reading and the grandma was like “shut up girl, you think you smart because you can read”

 

[Jean Jacket]

Hammer was a showman before an MC.

You can't deny Brehs hustle and for that he deserves full respect.

 

[Batsute]

Stoney Jackson went hard on this one

CB4 is still easily Chris Rock's funniest movie

For the longest I thought him and Pootie Tang were the same person.

 

[Cakebatter]

No one is claiming Hammer was a great rapper. Special Ed, Biz Markie, nor The Fatboys, were great rappers either. People forget dancing was a popular pastime for Black youth in the 80s and 90s. House music didnt take off because folks only bobbed their head it, or used for study music. Hammer made good dance music and was an amazing dancer. So Black kids had ample reason to play his music and watch his videos. His rapping only had to be so good to complete his act. Hammer was big in the black community, otherwise he never would have reached white audiences.

 

[macadomusic]

Hammer extended hip-hop's lifeline for sure

 

[Digital Omen]

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.

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.

 

[Problematic Pat]

Hip-Hop/Rap turned into some hater shyt once gangster rap took over. PM Dawn got hated on by his peers because he wasn't on no super gangsta shyt.

 

[kingofnyc]

~ he’s not hip hop ~

 

[Cakebatter]

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.

This is revisionist history. It wasnt taboo, folks simply couldn't do it. Run DMC appearing on the kids show Reading Rainbow was a big deal. Rappers appearing in movies like Crush Groove or Tougher than Leather were attempts to go mainstream, so trust me, if a rapper back then could "cross-over" they would have. Thats why that so called taboo mysteriously vanished post Hammer.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

The IG post says he didn’t want to deal with the fake admiration, but Hammer’s words in the clip says he didn’t want to deal with the fake old heads still pretending to be gangsters (you want me to call you “six shooter”; none of your bodies popped up yet! )

Coli running with the caption tho…

 

[BobbyWojak]

Weirdo, following me from another thread.

 

[The_Sheff]

nikkas just were crabs.

Talking about he was wack for “dancing for a check”, meanwhile nikkas pops got a crate full of James Brown albums.

He got hits that still sound good to this day, and you can play them around EVERYBODY.

 

[Digital Omen]

This is revisionist history. It wasnt taboo, folks simply couldn't do it. Run DMC appearing on the kids show Reading Rainbow was a big deal. Rappers appearing in movies like Crush Groove or Tougher than Leather were attempts to go mainstream, so trust me, if a rapper back then could "cross-over" they would have. Thats why that so called taboo mysteriously vanished post Hammer.

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:

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