The phrase hitting the big time for musicians usually is attached with a big performance or winning an award. Specifically for DJs, making it has a lot to do with who they work with. Notable examples would be Neil Armstrong with Jay-Z or a decade earlier Mix Master Mike with The Beastie Boys. But Mick Boogie has one-upped them all.
He has aligned himself with MC Hammer.
Now if you didn’t get my sarcasm I’ll apologize now, but putting together a mixtape hosted by the parchute pants wearing icon is simply genius. You got to give Mick Boogie credit for also mixing the original samples to Hammer’s hits i.e. “Superfreak” to “Can’t Touch This.” This is as definitive as it gets and thankfully without the “Pumps and a Bump” cheetah Speedo.
Download — The Press Play Show & Mick Boogie Present MC Hammer – Hammertime: Past, Present & Future
Kudos: The Press Play Show
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“MC Hammer Gets the Gas Face” © 3rd Bass
LOL peep the Cover jackin’ YO MTV Raps Trading Cards
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hammer is realer than most rappers today. he gave eveybody he knew from his neighborhood a job or an opportunity to get down. from babrbers to dancers he gave people a shot. he ended up broke becuase of it but he looked out.
As dope as Mick Boogie’s work is, I can’t download this. Hammer?? I rather watch Rosie O’Donnel mud wrestle Fat Oprah.
I have seen a number of musical acts (Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, the Roots, Outkast, Biggie, Big Daddy Kane, Prince, New Edition, Michael Jackson to name a few) in my lifetime; no lie Hammer had one of the best performances I have ever seen. When I went to see him (during the Please Hammer don’t hurt them era) I was going in ready to give him the gas face ala 3rd bass. However the energy he had on that stage, I haven’t seen many hip hop artists replicate to date. And to top things I was able to meet him back stage and he was coolest, most down to earth cat, which cinched things for him. People can blast him if they want but there wouldn’t be any Vitamin Water, Roc-a-Wear, Sean John, etc. if Hammer wasn’t there to blow hip-hop up the way he did to the mainstream.
Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em!
I used to joke about Hammer too. Now that Im wiser than I was, I see he was just a continuation of James Brown and Michael Jackson with the dancin and positivity aspect. He came from Oakland, a very hardcore place and he was , no is a great entertainer.However,Im not dealin with the mixtape cuz it lef tLets Get It Started off, WTF!
Plus NWA & 2 Live Crew did shows with Hammer which was probably due to him.
There are certain acts in hiphop lore who the culture owes a collective, “my bad” to. Hammer is one of ‘em.
This dude was realer from day one to day forever than 99% of the cats who’ve ever repped the culture. Seriously.
He never claimed to be anything other than a dope dancer who knew how to rhyme–think about all the dumbass dances we got now; and as bad as all these dances are, can’t none of these cats flip bars on par with grampa burrell. Hammer claimed to be a showman–and promptly put on better shows than most live rock bands. He claimed his community–then hired damn near everybody.
he claimed to be universal–and promptly sold tens of millions of albums worldwide with the same sound he was slinging out of trunks in oakland parking lots after rippin’ clubs apart on the dancefloor.
dude was 3 times dope.