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Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em

Though M.C. Hammer's debut LP, Let's Get It Started, sold more than a million copies, it was a sixty-watt bulb in the rap meltdown, relying on worn soul riffs and endless ploys. If anything, Hammer's second LP is weaker than his first Lacking the tour de funk of last year's hit "Turn This Mother...

1990 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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The ultimate Behind the Music subject: Because his success owes more to hard work and showmanship than to originality, Hammer (who called himself MC Hammer on his first two albums) was frequently reviled as a sellout and a fake in the hip-hop community. The fact is, he didn't do anything musically that Puff Daddy hasn't: His music beds not only borrow from obvious sources -- Queen's "Another One...

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