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Welcome to the new and improved Essential Album of the Week discussion thread!
Every Wednesday we will discuss an album from our Essential Albums list
Last Week: Digital Underground - Sex Packets
This Week: MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em
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Background/Description (courtesy of rapreviews.com)
Stanley Kirk Burrell holds a unique place in hip-hop history as the first rapper to go diamond - selling more than ten million copies of just one album. Many of today's best-selling and most well respected hip-hop artists have gone gold with ease and platinum several times over, yet that diamond has stayed just out of reach. Shawn Carter has never been higher than 6X platinum with "The Blueprint." Tupac Shakur came close with "All Eyez on Me" at 9X platinum but also benefitted from the rule that double albums count twice, meaning 4.5 million or so copies of the album were sold. Kanye West has never gone diamond. Lil Wayne has never gone diamond. Even hip-hop legends and icons like LL Cool J and Run-D.M.C. have never gone diamond. Just who IS Stanley Kirk Burrell, the man who did what Lil Wayne and Kanye West have never done?
You know him better as M.C. Hammer. That's right - HAMMER.
Go ahead and laugh if you like, but M.C. Hammer paved the way for the success of a lot of other rappers today. In fact if you're in your 30's now think back to your high school days, and see if you don't remember dancing to "Here Comes the Hammer" at a party or having a copy of "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" in the tape deck of your car stereo. These days people remember the parachute pants, the mockery by other rap artists of the day (even 3rd Bass made fun of him in a video) the sill
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Mostly references to him going broke. If you know you know.
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