OPINION: The Oakland rapper’s most edgy album came with some controversy over his image and a legendary Speedo. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beck’s new album Colors finally comes out on Friday, and although Stereogum don’t exactly love it, MC Hammer apparently does.
On this date in 1990, Oakland rap superstar MC Hammer released his third studio album, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em, through Capitol Records. Fueled by the massive success of “U Can’t Touch This,” the ...
XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: March 1, 1994: Hammer, who dropped the MC from his name during this time, delivered his fifth studio album, The Funky Headhunter, via Giant Records ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists in hip-hop history have matched the meteoric rise and cultural impact of MC Hammer. Emerging from Oakland’s music scene in the late 1980s, he quickly evolved from a local ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The MC Hammer really is one you had to experience in real time. It’s hard ...