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

[Fanservice]

Hammer was the guy until U can’t tough this. People be fronting now trying to act like they cared about Hammer, ask them when the last time U Can’t touch this got play in the ride I’ll say this though, Pumps n a bump still sounds good and I play that in my car.

Every time I hear that song I think of that beat in the Boondocks Soul Plane 2

 

[LezJepzin]

I was in Elementary School when MC Hammer blew up. Dude was everywhere.

Went down to Oakland monthly during that time seeing relatives and the buzz was there. Dude couldn't miss between '89-'91 . His shows were like workout videos they danced so much.

He was a real one at the end of the day despite the bankruptcy .



BTW,

That CB4 movie looks like trash and at the Digital Underground Slander

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Did you think supersonic was wack?

I’m going to say no. It’s a far more tolerable record company contrived formulaic hit attempt than “Juicy Gotcha Crazy”. Not to say that either of them were good

 

[King Poetic]

Nobody really cared one way or another about hammer…

Yeah we heard and seen NWA in DOC video make fun of him, Ice Cube and of course redman, 3rd bass and a few others NY rappers, but people really didn’t give a fukk,,, because Death Row came along and it was a wrapped…. Those same rappers dissing hammer was the same nikkas trying to switch they style to death row…

There’s a thread in the booth showing how all these rappers and R&B nikkas change their style to a gangster /thug look

 

[3rdWorld]

Nobody really cared one way or another about hammer…

Yeah we heard and seen NWA in DOC video make fun of him, Ice Cube and of course redman, 3rd bass and a few others NY rappers, but people really didn’t give a fukk,,, because Death Row came along and it was a wrapped…. Those same rappers dissing hammer was the same nikkas trying to switch they style to death row…

There’s a thread in the booth showing how all these rappers and R&B nikkas change their style to a gangster /thug look

Yeah, you're right it was a wrap with NWA..but not so much for Hammer as it was for Black musics future.
Now you got people outright blaming NWA for a whole host of shyt including the trajectory and direction of music and even crime. Whether they're proven right or wrong, it's still out there.
Hammer wins because his conscience is clean because he doesn't carry the legacy of destruction like NWA.
Ice Cube is now having to defend himself and NWAs role in a lot of awful modern shyt.

 

[b. woods]

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

And both of em were on CB4

When Pootie stole on Trustus as he lay in his casket at his wake because he owed him money

EDIT: @RubioTheCruel already posted it.

 

[b. woods]

Nobody really cared one way or another about hammer…

Yeah we heard and seen NWA in DOC video make fun of him, Ice Cube and of course redman, 3rd bass and a few others NY rappers, but people really didn’t give a fukk,,, because Death Row came along and it was a wrapped…. Those same rappers dissing hammer was the same nikkas trying to switch they style to death row…

There’s a thread in the booth showing how all these rappers and R&B nikkas change their style to a gangster /thug look

That time in 1993 where artists had to switch up and go hardcore

 

[Batsute]

What’s funny is Lance Crouthier(Pootie Tang) was in CB4 at Trustus’ funeral



Now I gotta go watch CB4 again this shyt is hilarious

NWH, CB4, are forever classics

What’s crazy is you can still do that type of movie even today, throw in the following

- Drill & Trap rappers
- UK bruvs
- Tariq
- Social media
- Female rappers

You just need a good director and that shyt would be fukkery

 

[Raw Lyrics]

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

MUCH Better than today's generation where men wear skirts.

 

[TEH]

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.

I’m a hip hop head and black and I supported Hammer. You must not have heard that first album. That’s when Hammers music was the highlight of black parties and I was in Florida.

 

[zayk35]

That 1st album goes. IDC what anybody says. By the time the 2nd one came out there was still a lane for the fun shyt and he hogged that mf. Then when 2 Legit came it was wayy over the top and it was a wrap plus everything was changing at the same time. He tried to be all hard-core in 94 but he made "that weird video" in a speedo and we were 16 years old by then so he was now a complete laughing stock. But he did some great things in pushing the culture forward. And he should most definitely be recognized by hip hop.

 

[Rollie Forbes]