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

[Sccit]

'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.

still woulda gone gold, i bet

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

'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.

still woulda gone gold, i bet

I think gold in those times for a deathrow artist would be considered a flop.

[Sccit]

'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.

still woulda gone gold, i bet

I think gold in those times for a deathrow artist would be considered a flop.

yea, but woulda been good enough for hammer's career.. the fail wit death row was the end of him

[TraceOneInfinite]

....he was never a horrible rapper

You sure?  Listen to the Hammer version of "Unconditional Love" and see if you still feel that way.

[Sccit]

....he was never a horrible rapper

You sure?  Listen to the Hammer version of "Unconditional Love" and see if you still feel that way.

lol, just cuz he made a horrible song dont mean he's a horrible rapper. he's not the greatest, but there's much, much worse.

[Hack Wilson - real]

i think Hammer woulda sold 49% of his soul to go gold on death row


Hammer was a serious dude though...he tried to kill 3rd Bass because they had a line about his mother on a song

[Sir Petey]

hammer was an uptempo rapper he sounded kinda shitty on down tempo beats.

[BigMeazy]

Didnt Hammer also donate a shit load of cash that ended up buying Police choppers for the Oakland Task force? I've heard rappers from Oakland mention this quite a few times, I think Yukmouth even raps about it in a song or two.

[Hack Wilson - real]

Didnt Hammer also donate a shit load of cash that ended up buying Police choppers for the Oakland Task force? I've heard rappers from Oakland mention this quite a few times, I think Yukmouth even raps about it in a song or two.

lmao no way...

after looking int othis it might have been a rumor:

http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/breakdown-fm-mc-hammer-the-vindication-interview/

[BigMeazy]

Could have been just a nasty rumor, or perhaps he donated money to help his community, and the money could have been latter used or said to be used to purchase shit for the police.

Wouldn't seem likely that Suge would want someone like that on his label if it were true with all the shady shit his label was supposedly involved in.

Also couldnt really see Tupac having love for someone who donated money to the Oakland Police.

[Hack Wilson - real]

MC Hammer woulda been a nice pick up for D.R. based on the fact that he had good producers behind him

[BigMeazy]

Yukmouth City Of Dope verse 2

Them task folks can't stop us
High school niggas get caught with a hundred g's
Stashed in his locker along with a chopper
Niggas be ballin like a doctor, or a surgeon
M.c. hammer splurgin'
He bought up countless brand new helicopters
And suburbans, now he hurtin

Wonder why Hammer never responded to this considering he went at Jay Z for making fun of him going broke.

[DeeezNuuuts83]

'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.

If he was coming out in 1997, it would've been LATE 1997 and no earlier.  Makaveli was rushed to capitalize on buzz (i.e. Makaveli) and may not have come out as soon as it did if Pac survived and Suge not gone to prison.  I think that the next Dogg Pound album (West Coast Aftershock?) was slated for release too, and maybe Rage's album would've been greenlighted earlier (as Necessary Roughness came out eventually not too much after).  Hammer had a name but I don't see his stuff getting prioritized ahead of them.  And maybe even OFTB would've been pushed ahead of him too.  Maybe not, but it's possible, since they were putting in work for Death Row and getting their name mentioned in To Live & Die in L.A.

But yeah, I don't see a Death Row Hammer album being very successful either.  But the Pac feature alone would've made it sell.

[123imagee]

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

[UCC]

I think they did it for sales...
you gotta remember how big Hammer was in the early 90s.

His album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em sold more than
any 2Pac album, and any Dre or Snoop album -
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_hip_hop_albums_in_the_United_States

Only Eminem, Biggie, and Outkast have particular albums that sold more, and the Biggie and Outkast
albums were double albums!!
So really only Eminem has had albums that sold more than that Hammer album...