What was the deal with Hammer being on Death Row anyway?

[TraceOneInfinite]

I really don't get it.  I tried to find any interviews of MC Hammer talking about his time at Death Row but I couldn't find anything.  Something to make sense of it all.   I mean, what did this dude have on Suge?  Was Suge just trying to help out another black man who was down on his luck after going bankrupt?

His music he recorded at Death Row was aweful.  I mean, 2pac even tried to hook him up with "Unconditional Love" and he totally bastardized it.  Thank God, it ended up being released on 2pac's Greatest Hit as a 2pac record and the Hammer version never got released.

But this guy Hammer ended up appearing on magazine covers with the heavy hitters like Snoop and 2pac.  They were really trying to make this dude "legit".

Can anybody make sense of the Hammer connection with Death Row?

[Hack Wilson - real]

MC Hammer is a rap legend

[Black Excellence]

infinite u can diss hammer all u want but i don't ever recall him standin' on no corners freestylin' for change.

[johnnie360]

I think some of the reason, was Death Rows ego at the time. They thought they could make anyone they put out sell albums. Suge thought he could resserect Hammers career.

[BIGWORM]

They wanted to clean up the image of death row records.

[KC-HOODSTA]

aint nobody call this man a snitch or lie in his raps about shit he never did. he a real nigga to me!

[drunkenfool]

Somewhere I remember reading that Hammer helped out Suge back in the day, and Suge was repaying him by helping him out by putting him on Death row. I want to say he lent Suge a decent amount of money.

[Sir Petey]

mc hammer was harder then alot of rappers back then...he would send some oakland hitters at you back in the turn this mutha out days.

[Hack Wilson - real]

mc hammer was harder then alot of rappers back then...he would send some oakland hitters at you back in the turn this mutha out days.

he even put a hit out on MC Serch for 60 grand

[TraceOneInfinite]

infinite u can diss hammer all u want but i don't ever recall him standin' on no corners freestylin' for change.

I'd give him a lot more props if he had done it.

[TraceOneInfinite]

Somewhere I remember reading that Hammer helped out Suge back in the day, and Suge was repaying him by helping him out by putting him on Death row. I want to say he lent Suge a decent amount of money.

That's interesting.  Would like to get more info on that connection.   One of the reasons Hammer went broke was from giving away so much money to friends and associates, Suge must of been one of those thousands of people he gave money to.  Certainly says something about Suge's loyalty.

[bouli77]

According to Daz,

ThaFormula.com - But I mean what were your thoughts when you found out Suge wanted to get Hammer? Were you trippin' on that?

Daz Dillinger - I asked Suge about that and he was like, "Hammer is for political reasons as far as getting us into doing benefits and shit like that." So that's what Hammer was there for, to get that charity and back-taxes off of muthafuckas and shit like that. But as far as puttin' an album out, no record ever came out. (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - So there never was gonna be a Hammer album?

Daz Dillinger - Hell nah, he made one though. I did something on it but Hammer ran off with the reel. I think Suge and them was looking for them.

http://dformula.bizland.com/daz_dillinger_ambitionz_of_a_ridah_thaformula_music.html

mc hammer was harder then alot of rappers back then...he would send some oakland hitters at you back in the turn this mutha out days.

yes hammer was also known to be a good fighter. hammer is definitely a legend.

[Sccit]

i think if pac never died, hammer woulda came out in 97....he was never a horrible rapper, just a victim of fads

[M Dogg™]

'Pac and Hammer were good friends, and Snoop was actually cool with Hammer too. I agree with Sccit, Hammer would have been out in 1997, and it would have bombed. I have the album it was pretty bad, but it was Death Row and at the time Death Row was still untouchable as long as 'Pac was alive.

[HighEyeCue]

'Pac and Hammer were good friends, and Snoop was actually cool with Hammer too. I agree with Sccit, Hammer would have been out in 1997, and it would have bombed. I have the album it was pretty bad, but it was Death Row and at the time Death Row was still untouchable as long as 'Pac was alive.

I liked the joint on his album with Kurupt, Storm and a few others, I think it was one of the last tracks...