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Mc Hammer "lets get is started" is a solid hiphop album!  
I know most hate him, but most hiphop fans did accept him at first with his debut album from 1988. He sounded like a Run DMC clone and claimed he was the new run dmc straight dissing them on "lets get it started" and dissed LL even more on "ring 'em" (yes the answer song to "rock the bells") He really dissed Run DMC on the good track "pump it up (its time for the news)". Anyway highlights are "lets get it started" "turn this mutha out" "ring 'em" "song of a king" "they put me in the mix" (killer sctatching) "pump it up (its time for the news)" This album is old school. Old schoolers would be surprised at some of this album. Songs like the very upfront "lets get it started" and "turn this mutha out" would surprise haters of hammer. Few may remember the videos. Even fewer remember Hammer started out a reasonabally respeated rapper. No Rakim lyrically and hammer always had alot of humour in his songs and his delivery is bad on parts of this album, but overall its a solid effort. [Edited 4/8/05 16:19pm] [Edited 4/8/05 16:20pm] | |
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I'm glad someone else thinks this way...Hammer was slammin' when he came out...How quickly people 4get him...The man deserves respect...and he put on one hell of a show! | |
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*crickets chirping*
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Hey, I knew this thread wern't going to be popular. Why would it? Iam just reaching out, u should do the same. | |
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didn't he sell this shit outta the trunk of his car? | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: didn't he sell this shit outta the trunk of his car? The pic on the left is the trunk one I think? If u notice the big hitters wern't written yet. yeah the album was limited on budget, which gives it a raw sound his later albums did not have. | |
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thesexofit said: The pic on the left is the trunk one I think? If u notice the big hitters wern't written yet. yeah the album was limited on budget, which gives it a raw sound his later albums did not have. It also means that not every track on this one is a remake (oops, I meant "sample"). | |
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I lost that first album, but that was the best one. Its history is tainted by what he would become.
"They Put Me In The Mix" was good. | |
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CinisterCee said: I lost that first album, but that was the best one. Its history is tainted by what he would become.
"They Put Me In The Mix" was good. hamma, hamma i am...they put me in the mix!  | |
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Pandurito,
Your image is making me cry. In college, I fell in love with a boy who could dance just like that. Saw him dancing at a party just like MC Hammer. And had to meet him. All the girls were jocking ... he could spider all across the floor. Um, humm. I thought, wow, that guy is soo cool.  
Anyway, he married some other bitch. So, screw Hammer. | |
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There will always be room in my heart for Hammer because he was a batboy for my team. 
 a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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SynthiaRose said: Anyway, he married some other bitch.
So, screw Hammer.  | |
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hell, it's probably better than 50 cent.  | |
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Anxiety said:hell, it's probably better than 50 cent.
Yes it is. Hammer was fun. His raps were intentionally humouress. (ie "ur a snake I'm a mongoose") [Edited 4/11/05 3:50am] | |
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Look at me agreeing with you! Let's Get It Started was his first proper album and was the album that showcased his ability to create catchy hooks. Yes, those hooks were largely created by sampling other people's work, but it wasn't as gratuitous as it would later be. Turn This Mutha Out, Let's Get It Started, They Put Me in the Mix and Pump It Up were all good numbers, and even then his stage shows were impressing people. At that point, they hadn't become so ridiculously overdone, setting himself up for instant parody. This was the album that gained him an audience. He blew up with his next one and, unfortunately, lost some of his edge and his core audience. | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: Look at me agreeing with you!
Let's Get It Started was his first proper album and was the album that showcased his ability to create catchy hooks. Yes, those hooks were largely created by sampling other people's work, but it wasn't as gratuitous as it would later be. Turn This Mutha Out, Let's Get It Started, They Put Me in the Mix and Pump It Up were all good numbers, and even then his stage shows were impressing people. At that point, they hadn't become so ridiculously overdone, setting himself up for instant parody. This was the album that gained him an audience. He blew up with his next one and, unfortunately, lost some of his edge and his core audience.Cool. "lets get is started" rules my world. "the fly girls that came with a beat in mind, are all up against a wall like a welfare line" or something like that. Hammer had a big fat co MC on some of those tracks. He sounds ridiculous on "pump it up" saying repetative shit like "yo hammer, we're rolling" or whatever. Unintenionally funny. | |
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thesexofit said: Cool. "lets get is started" rules my world.
"the fly girls that came with a beat in mind, are all up against a wall like a welfare line" or something like that. Hammer had a big fat co MC on some of those tracks. He sounds ridiculous on "pump it up" saying repetative shit like "yo hammer, we're rolling" or whatever. Unintenionally funny. And that is why I like it. | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: thesexofit said: Cool. "lets get is started" rules my world.
"the fly girls that came with a beat in mind, are all up against a wall like a welfare line" or something like that. Hammer had a big fat co MC on some of those tracks. He sounds ridiculous on "pump it up" saying repetative shit like "yo hammer, we're rolling" or whatever. Unintenionally funny. And that is why I like it. Yeah, he cracks me up too. Some of those lines hammer says, so stupid. Check the video. The fat co MC tries to get in the way of hammer . U can see hammer trying to push him away. | |
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No one ever talks about this, but imo, Lil Jon and Crunk style Hip-Hop highly resembles old Hammer to me.
Not lyrically but the keyboard/organ riffs, the chants the shouted rhymes etc all sound like old Hammer. People should go back and listen to "Lets Get it Started" and see if they hear a resemblance between their styles. Same type of comparision many make of Prince to Sly for example. Of course, this is just my opinion and I already know I am crazy. Later Cause tomorrow is taking too long
and yesterday's too far away and the reality that you believe in begins to bind. | |
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thesexofit said: RipHer2Shreds said: And that is why I like it. Yeah, he cracks me up too. Some of those lines hammer says, so stupid. Check the video. The fat co MC tries to get in the way of hammer . U can see hammer trying to push him away. Too Big MC wasn't it? "Let's Get it Started" was a cool album. I grew up in Oakland when it first hit and I remember doing/ trying to do those Hammer dances. I didn't like U Can't Touch This because Superfreak was too fresh in my mind. Then you started seeing him in commercials and of course the rap community trashed him out of jealousy. Me, being a kid, bought into him being a sell-out. The truth is, he was always an entertainer first and a rapper second. |
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thesexofit said:
I know most hate him, but most hiphop fans did accept him at first with his debut album from 1988. He sounded like a Run DMC clone and claimed he was the new run dmc straight dissing them on "lets get it started" and dissed LL even more on "ring 'em" (yes the answer song to "rock the bells") He really dissed Run DMC on the good track "pump it up (its time for the news)". Anyway highlights are "lets get it started" "turn this mutha out" "ring 'em" "song of a king" "they put me in the mix" (killer sctatching) "pump it up (its time for the news)" This album is old school. Old schoolers would be surprised at some of this album. Songs like the very upfront "lets get it started" and "turn this mutha out" would surprise haters of hammer. Few may remember the videos. Even fewer remember Hammer started out a reasonabally respeated rapper. No Rakim lyrically and hammer always had alot of humour in his songs and his delivery is bad on parts of this album, but overall its a solid effort. [Edited 4/8/05 16:19pm] [Edited 4/8/05 16:20pm] Wicked!!!  | |
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