Q&A: How Many Real Hip Hop and Music Fans Have This Same Beef About Hammer? I’m Just Being Real.?
Question by lowertheboom: How Many Real Hip Hop and Music Fans Have This Same Beef About Hammer? I’m Just Being Real.?
Disclaimer: Please don’t answer this question if you believe Souja Boy is raw or Lil Wayne is the greatest of all time over people like Rakim, KRS-1, Big, Pac, Naz, and Common.
you know what? I was watching Mc Hammer do a guest appearance on an MTV awards show hosted by Diddy(on YouTube). I was so hyped to see him on tv performing for the first time since I don’t know when. Then I took a look at all the superstars in the crowd. They were lookin at Hammer as if he was beneath them. It pissed me off. They looked at him like a clown. Well except for like Puffy, Wyclef,Black Eye Peas, and Jon Legend. But Jay-Z, Beyonce, Usher (of all people), Alicia Keys, all look at him like WTF ?? It just amazes me how little respect he gets to this day. I wanted to slap everyone of them and say, ” Do you know that he was the first true main stream rapper (something that he was called a sell-out for but rappers go mainstream much quicker now than ever .Jay-Z and Big were mainstream among many others) ? He paved the way for you to get endorsement contracts as a rapper (which HE was called a sellout for doing- now hiphop artist endorse Sprite, McDonalds, KFC). He was one of the original members of Death Row (not alot of people know that). He made the party song before it was called that? grr, it angered me so much. Because I watch BET awards and Hip Hop Source awards and they have NEVER ask him to perform on any of them even though there was a time when he nearing MJ’s startosphere and could arguably have challegened MJ for title of best entertainer during that small window of time. Its pisses me off that he was crucified for doing the very things that rappers do today to get paid such as – endorse products, become main stream, have fun in his songs. How dare he have fun in his songs and dance? Kid N Play anyone? New Boyz? Souja Boy? Bow Wow? Huey – Pop Lock and Drop it?Lean wit it, Rock wit it? Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz?? It also angers me that alot of people try to point at his financial losses as a reason to diss him. Please, I can’t point to many legends who had to file bankruptcy for just blowing their money starting with Michael Jackson, or star athletes such as Antoine Walker or Michael Vick. Sorry I had to get that off my chest…. what is your opinions? I am just trying to be real here.
Small correction on my part, but I guess you could say that Run DMC had the crossover appeal.
hohokev- takes a flame to know a flame. Do you know that you are truly ignorant? You’re probably one of the suckkas that I was talking about in the disclaimer. No love for the history of hip-hop and who has laid the groundwork for the CRAP that you LOVE today. You have been demoted and I feel bad for you….chump.
I can definetly agree with you Justin, you are stating facts.
Best answer:
Answer by hohokev
wow you are flaming
by the way
i found the video
and EVERYONE was laughing at him. why? because hes a joke and the entire thing was meant to just be for fun, not his big comeback. you are really dumb
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