*MC Hammer recently explained why he’s been missing from all the hip-hop 50th-anniversary celebrations this year.
Last month, Hammer attended the 2Pac street naming event in Oakland, California, where he said he won’t participate in hip-hop 50 events because of all the “fakeness.” He also revealed that he doesn’t do interviews, so don’t expect him to spill any scolding hot tea on podcasts. He does, however, have a movie and memoir in the works, according to the artist.
“You ain’t never heard me talk about no stories on nobodies platform, you ain’t heard me go to none of these Hip Hop 50 [events], and just for the record, I got invited to every one, but I really don’t have the patience for the fakeness,” the hip-hop icon said at the Pac event, Complex reports.
“I’m really 60 years old, so I can’t get with the fakeness of it all. I can do it with a young cat, but I can’t come around old cats and still be pretending,” Hammer added.
“What you want me to call you? Hey, six shooter? Come on, man, ain’t none of your bodies turned up yet. I just can’t do it but Pac got me out here today,” he continued. “My first Hip Hop 50 event that I said yeah to and the only one. To come out here and say how much I love Pac.”
Last month in Oakland at Tupac street ceremony. Hammer talked briefly about being invited to every one of these hip-hop 50th anniversary events. https://t.co/9W56hKW76C pic.twitter.com/L8VXtRHcqF
— Lonnie Norman (@Aquariuslonn) December 11, 2023
Questlove curated the hip hop 50 celebration for the Grammys, and Hammer was noticeably absent from the show. According to Questlove, he reached out several times, but Hammer turned down the performance.
“We begged him to open,” Quest wrote on X/Twitter. “Of all the ‘No’s’….Hammer hurt the most. We really wanted him to have his flowers.” According to him, Salt-N-Pepa also couldn’t make it to the celebration.
Watch what Hammer said about it via the X/Twitter clip above.
We begged him to open 🤷🏾♂️
— ?st (@questlove) December 11, 2023
Of all the “No’s”….Hammer hurt the most. We really wanted him to have his flowers
— ?st (@questlove) December 11, 2023
MC Hammer’s salty attitude about hip-hop at 50 celebrations is most likely because, in his heyday, he was widely panned by the hip-hop community. He was labeled a “sell-out” and was also maligned by music critics for being too reliant on sampling.
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