Stop Hammer time!

Written for Kurrent Music
Published January 11th 2017

Hammer

Hammer blog

It wasn’t all that long ago that I saw people walking around on the streets wearing those harem pants again (pants with the crotch hanging at knee level), but there’s only one man who was originally responsible for making them famous; MC Hammer, later known simply as Hammer.

If you’ve been around to live through it, MC Hammer was an event. Wherever he went, he took a huge entourage with him. In his days as a rapper he was different to everyone, else at that time. He didn’t represent the gangster life or street life, but oozed energy, entertainment and positivity. And together with Vanilla Ice, he helped rap cross over to a pop audience. Of course, having to face a slightly pissed off hip hop scene.

His breakthrough single was “U Can’t Touch This”, using the bassline of Rick James’ “Superfreak”. Pretentious perhaps at the time, but it turned out true quickly. It was Hammer time.

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