MC Hammer

Released: March 1, 1994

Chorus (8x): (Q-tip)
If you say Hammer Proper
(Hammer)
We about to break em off somethin Proper

Once again it's on!
You brothers tried to diss me
You missed me
Chill G, For real G
Man u nigga's kill me
Tryin to knock me off the top
Yo there's no contest G in the market
You dead as Elvis Presley
As I deliver, hits too make em quiver
Make em shiver, Q-tip couldn't flow if he was a river
And me, I'm sellin milli like runnin the mill
And like Big Daddy Kane "I Wonder How You Gotta Record Deal"
Whatever it takes, to make hits, you ain't got it
Til this day you never ? never had it
For me I tend to kick it like a partner
And must I remind you I'm the funky headhunter
I understand u bout as manly as Rupaul
I come on your block and move you out like a U-Haul
So step right up and be the next contestant
A Tribe Called Quest Is A Bad Investment
I'm breakin em off with somethin proper!

Chorus (4x)

Like Hardaway boy I got skills
Like 7up you never had it never will
You talking that mess on your records but face to face you just a punk. When I see you Kriss Kross couldn’t make you jump (now they don't want funk)
Your wack album out be doin
That Native Tongue bullshit, it's gotta go gotta go
So pick a time and a place if you ever want to THROW EM G
Cause you could stay if u was Jodeci (Do u wanna Just Stay!)
So get yourself some protection
Or I'ma have your head in that played out rapper's collection

(2 Bigg MC)
Just like Pendergrass “Lights Out”
I Advise u keep his name out yo mouth
Cause you probably dis hammer fast son
Get out when u can or catch a bad one

(Hammer)
You better believe that I'm droppin you

(2 Bigg MC)
Right on yo ass!

(MC Hammer)
We breakin em off wit somethin proper!

Chorus (6x)

Like the rest you was tryin to get paid
These days you walkin around the Raid
Cause I'm known to blow em away like a hand grenade

(2 Bigg MC)
We don't get props for jumping punks that ain't in our league
And with the slangin' these bees

(MC Hammer)
Fool please!
I'm a high speed B-boy nuff said
The funky headhunter so I can't get enough head!

(2 Bigg MC)
Dis me I'll sit your ass in the tortuary
I'm makin your home a mortuary

(MC Hammer)
I'm so hyped to make you seat like a sedative
You didn't sign to another crew had to be a relative

(Suge Knight)
You all about as real as yo gel fro
For you we had know use
So we gone execute you like Death Row

(MC Hammer)
So don't misunderstand
I was a Menace 2 Society
When ya'll were Little Boys In Da Hood

(Suge)
I rearranged your face like a doctor

(MC Hammer)
When you bust my badge
You better fell the raft
We breakin em off with somethin proper!

I'm sendin this to all my women!
All them girls that gotta say Daddy Hammer's name
When they in the studio

Redman!
You punk you trick I like the way u say Daddy Hammer's name
I like it! I like it! I like it! You punk tricks!

(Suge Knight)
Man you know you wanna cus them fools out!
(Suge and 2 Bigg MC)
Redman, Gonna put em on the hoe stroll!
Dres, gonna put em on the hoe stroll!
Q-tip, gonna put em on the hoe stroll!
Rodney O, already on the hoe stroll!
Search couldn't sell on the hoe stroll!

(2 Bigg MC)
Man what about Run D. M. C
Too Old For the hoe stroll!

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born 30 March 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer, is an American rapper, dancer, entrepreneur, spokesman and occasional actor from Oakland, California. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the late 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for his hit records (such as “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”), flashy dance movements, choreography and his trademark Hammer pants. Hammer’s superstar-status and entertaining showmanship made him a household name and Hip-Hop icon. He has sold more than fifty million records worldwide.

A multi-award winner, MC Hammer is considered a pioneer and innovator of pop rap, and is the first Hip-Hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album. Hammer was later considered a sellout due in part to overexposure as an entertainer, and as a result of being too “commercial” when Rap was “hardcore”, then his image later becoming increasingly “gritty” to once again adapt to the ever-changing landscape of rap. Burrell became a preacher during the late 1990s with a Christian ministry program called MC Hammer and Friends. Additionally, he starred in a Saturday morning cartoon called Hammerman in 1991 and was executive producer of his own reality show called Hammertime which aired during the summer of 2009. Prior to becoming ordained, Hammer signed to Suge Knight’s Death Row Records in 1995.

Throughout his career, Hammer has managed his own recording business. As a result, he has created and produced his own acts including Oaktown’s 3.5.7, Common Unity, Special Generation, Analise, One Cause One Effect, Teabag, Dom Kimberley, Geeman, DRS, Pleasure Ellis, B Angie B, Stooge Playaz, Ho Frat Hoo! and Wee Wee, among others. A part of additional record labels, he has collaborated and has been associated with 2Pac, Teddy Riley, Felton Pilate, Tha Dogg Pound, The Whole 9, Deion Sanders, and Big Daddy Kane, as well as others.

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