By now, I\u2019m betting you — the loyal reader of The Daily Vault — have watched MC Hammer\u2019s episode of VH1\u2019s Behind The Music<\/i> more than twice.\u00a0 If not, well, it\u2019s a sad but uncommon story in the music world. <\/p>\n
Man grows up with little, man works hard, man gets a lot, man gives a lot so he can help those with little, but man gives too much.\u00a0 His \u201cbased on a true story\u201d VH1 movie told the same tale, of course, although I didn\u2019t believe the angle about him and Tupac being best friends.<\/p>\n
Please Hammer Don\u2019t Hurt \u2018Em<\/i>, the first album I ever bought, is what took MC Hammer into the \u201cman gets a lot\u201d phase.\u00a0 It yielded a massive five singles in the Listening back now, the album sounds like 1989 hip-hop in every way possible, with exception to \u201cunderground\u201d folks like N.W.A. and Public Enemy. It\u2019s focused on melody, it\u2019s sampling artists of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there\u2019s little low-end\u2026there is nothing threatening about this album. In fact, it\u2019s as pop as can be. There\u2019s not even a bad word to bleep out. By comparison, it makes hair-metal look like public enemy number one.<\/p>\n While I don\u2019t envision listening to Please Hammer Don\u2019t Hurt \u2018Em<\/i> in its entirety anytime this century, it is great nostalgia.\u00a0 It reminds me of a time when rock music still prevailed. At the same point in time, the music industry was still on the rise and there were more than four record companies. Then again, in that same era, the Internet was not used for musical purposes and people were more force-fed by default. It is likely that force-feeding nature of MTV led to a hip-hop album like this spending 21 weeks at number one.<\/p>\n Whatever the case, I take great pride in the purchase of this cassette with my parents\u2019 money at Caldor.\u00a0 \u201cU Can\u2019t Touch This\u201d is timeless by my standards.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take MC Hammer any day over just about any hip-hop artist.\u00a0 Well, with the exception of N.W.A., Public Enemy, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Quik\u2026oh, well, you get the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":27630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7410],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40673","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-m-c-hammer","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40673"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}