LAWD!

First verse was OK I guess, but a whole song just to diss one guy? Pretty boring, and honestly, Hammer was such an easy target aswell. Also, even I can tell the raps were pretty slow and predictable.

Never understood the hate for Hammer.

thesexofit said:

That's why I posted the fall off smiley. People were just sh***ing on him for some reason.

Timmy84 said:

They didn't start dissing him til he changed his style up, am I correct (I mean besides comics like Tommy Davidson and Damon Wayans)?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Yeah when he began to get more "pop" oriented (around the release of "Too Legit to Quit"), that's when they put their knives out on him. Then EVERYBODY put in their two cents from Ice Cube to 3rd Base (though I think they dissed him around '90 but I'm not sure when "Gas Face" came out).

Timmy84 said:

Yep it was in 90 when Gas Face came out Timmy, Hammer was hated on heavy, lol!!!
Even Tribe Called Quest dissed him, I was like why?

Abdul said:

I heard about Tribe Called Quest!

thesexofit said:

[Paul Mooney]Nuggaz wanna dance for a piece of chicken, they gotta get called on it,,,,,can't keep your head up high while you're dancing for piece of chicken[/Paul Mooney]

I guess Hammer wasn't hard enough or macho enough for some circles in the Rap commmunity.

TD3 said:

According to Ice Cube in '92: "You was hardcore hip-hop/now look at yourself/boy you done flip-flopped" He was talking about Hammer there, lol

Timmy84 said:

Is this the same oreo cookie who made a song about "oreos"?

Nice try, Iced Shit

Harlepolis said:

Yep the same damn one. And then HE went on to do kiddie films.

Timmy84 said:

Actually it was Hammer that started the whole thing. This was around the time he was hangin 'round Suge Knight & Death Row and became lol "The Funky Headhunter" and threw a rock at a hornet's nest of real emcee's on this tune....

diamondpearl1 said:

I remembered that tune! Oh OK, no wonder Black Sheep went at him!

Some of these asshole hardcore rappers in the 90's dissed Hammer because he
- Did comercials
- Had a cartoon and action figure.
- Had a cross over audience
Things REAL rappers would neva do, oh wait....

joseph8 said:

I think it was also jealousy. Hammer at one time was selling out in European, Asian and Australian stadiums/arenas. That must've rubbed them the totally wrong way. So when they couldn't directly diss him for him, they dissed his music.

diamondpearl1 said:

Blacksheep threw the first stone in they're video for "The Choice Is Yours" when Drez balled up a picture of MC Hammer dancing on the hook part, "YOU CAN GET WITH THIS OR YOU CAN GET WITH THAT"

Abdul said:

I remembered that too.

joseph8 said:

It wasn't so much the things he was doin and gettin 'cause everybody actually respected what he was doin. What pissed people off was that he was in interviews, kissin ass talkin down on other rappers like he was "holier than thou", when less than 5 years ago he was scratchin to survive in Oakland and lived 2 tell about it like they were.

Abdul said:

Probably because rap is not pop; if you call it that stop.

BanishedBrian said:

Yep that's what they said

TD3 said:

nah nah nah it's that his music was watered down and mostly consisted of party chants and very very simple rhymes.... kinda what rap is today