Pete Nice Says MC Serch is a Legend In His Own Mind!!!!!
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So he did commercials/endorsements for large companies... and because of this, he was a sellout?
Well, he must have saved a seat on that bus for Cube, LL, Nas, Jay, KRS, Chuck D, and a bunch more of 'em... because damn near everybody in the rap game had done commercials n shyt by the end of that decade.
Also, find the time Cube wrote in to the Source and denied dissing Hammer in the video after Hammer pulled up on him in LA about it.
Like I said, his music was wack and he did/said some goofy shyt, but he also did a lot for his community, that's not something a "sellout" would do.
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This I concur with. But even in Hammer's case, it ain't like this man started off spittin' bars and bein' a hardcore rap type nikka in the first place. He got more and more over-the-top image wise as he got bigger but it wasn't like it was some big surprise when 'Can't Touch This' came out. I could see if his first shyt sounded like BDP and then he come outta left field dancin' in a shiny suit the next year. If anything, his biggest style shift was later when he popped up with 'Pumps & A Bump' and dressin' "hard" outta the blue
1. Cube lied. Find who else fit that description. I'll wait
2. The difference is the tone and buffoonery. LL is spitting raw on his Gap commercial (and gave FUBU a look that helped make them), all the classic Sprite commercials are just freestyling in the studio. You ca tell cacs came up with all that Hammer shyt because it was all corny monkey shine foolery.
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Yeah, it's a subjective thing. While they wanna shyt in Hammer for sampling Superfreak they let BDK slide for sampling All Night Long. Obvious hits by other artists, where's the consistency? I think it was because he isn't lyrical, sampled a well known song, dresses like a showmen and is not from NY they hated.This I concur with. But even in Hammer's case, it ain't like this man started off spittin' bars and bein' a hardcore rap type nikka in the first place. He got more and more over-the-top image wise as he got bigger but it wasn't like it was some big surprise when 'Can't Touch This' came out. I could see if his first shyt sounded like BDP and then he come outta left field dancin' in a shiny suit the next year. If anything, his biggest style shift was later when he popped up with 'Pumps & A Bump' and dressin' "hard" outta the blue
If you want to say Hammer is wack fine but saying he is selling out music because of some made up inconsistent rules he never heard of is dumb.
Nah, Kane was dope whereas Hammer was not... lots of artists sampled hit records, that really was not the backlash on Hammer nor was the "he's not from NY" shyt. Hammer came out dissing respected dudes in the game and had the nerve to be a half-ass rapper- that's a good 80% of what caused him to get dissed. And for the record, Kane got a backlash just the same when he started making slow jams n'shyt, LL got booed off the stage IN NEW YORK in '89, there were rappers from NY that were dissing EACHOTHER... we gotta stop makin' Hammer a victim, breh. The only thing I will defend is that he as a black man did right by other black people- the rest of it, eh.
The whole sell out thing wasn't "he went from A to B".
A lot of people felt like he was making rap more palatable to people that otherwise would have no interest in it. As opposed to hip-hop being it's own thing, and people coming to it on it's own terms.
When Billboard is praising how many albums Hammer is selling while the editor is telling people not to cop "Death Certificate" because it's hateful....it's going to rub people the wrong way.
Fred.
A lot of people felt like he was making rap more palatable to people that otherwise would have no interest in it. As opposed to hip-hop being it's own thing, and people coming to it on it's own terms.
When Billboard is praising how many albums Hammer is selling while the editor is telling people not to cop "Death Certificate" because it's hateful....it's going to rub people the wrong way.
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Again, y'all are looking at in through a modern lens.
We had no idea in 1989 what the fukk Hammer was doing for his community 90% of the time unless you were purposely tracking down articles about Hammer, you weren't knowing how many people in East Oakland dude was hiring.
What you knew was he was dumbing down rap music and making clown ass music for White folks.
That made him a "sellout" by the terms of the day.
Nobody got points for being "positive" back then because also it was expected that you'd put your people on once you got some loot.
Rappers were always having their boys from the neighborhood all on the records & videos.
Hammer wasn't special in that sense.
It was just the scale because Hammer had so much more money than anybody else by the early '90s that he was able to hire dozens maybe hundreds of people from the hood, but by old-school Hip-Hop standards, that's what cats were supposed to do if they got some loot. Put the hood on.
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Hammer took over the thread
word he about to start getting dissed againHammer took over the thread
Remember how "CB4" clowned that nikka with that Wacky D, shyt?
That's why I hate this new "black people loved hammer " posts
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Like, old people and little kids loved Hammer.
All the 8 year olds and 70 year olds loved Hammer.
A lot of girls liked Hammer too because most women have shytty taste in music and like anything with a beat
