When Ice Cube Realized MC Hammer Wasn’t to Be Messed With

no that was deep with and he used to what anybody who talk come to the Bay Area they was in for it cuz we seen it I seen it and he was very serious about beef oh you going to talk about my dancing pants I see you and he will whoop a yo even when I said about Hammer yo I said listen to my first album when I did the skit and I was like you know what that goddamn him his mama and the whole n that came up to me on MTV Cribs on the

last episode they had with everybody out on not MTV crib sorry about that I'm Zone um on the last uh Dr Dre and Ed Lover uh on MTV when they had the last episode y MTV Raps yeah y MTV rap when the last episode they shot when they had everybody rapping on it MC ham was there that n approached me he was like red I'm going tell you something you young but I don't allow nobody talking about my mom you understand me I said yes sir if you ever wondered what a gangster would look like

with colorful parachute pants then all you need to do was watch a MC Hammer music video although Hammer looked like the kind of guy that will turn the volume up at a kids birthday party he was also the kind of guy who would tell you to stay out of LA and absolutely mean it this is the side of MC Hammer that the general public never knew about and you can't blame him too much the MC Hammer was insanely successful despite his humble beginnings and by Humble I mean Hood Li Hammer was born at Stanley Kirk

Burell in 1962 in extremely rough Oakland California he and his eight siblings yes eight grew up in a small apartment in East Oakland then at theend the age of five his father left him and all his siblings alone in the care of his mother despite his father being mostly absent from his growth it was he who kept him his head straight and stopped him from going into the streets when you were young coming up tough neighborhood uh income problems did you ever think about selling drugs to get this watch quicker did I ever think about

it yeah I did I did think about it I got real real close to trying to go full time to I remember and uh although my father doesn't live uh in my house I grew up with my mother um I've always respected my father you know and uh he came by and he heard the rumor you know he heard the rumor that I was selling weed and uh the words that he said to me and and the tears that I saw in his eyes you know uh it kind of you know it turned me around

the streets of East Oakland were particularly rough basically it was hard to grow up on it and not get get your hands dirty his parents had to set him straight to keep his nose out of the flourishing drug business instead himmer spent most of his youth hanging out at the parking lot of Oakland A's games selling straight baseballs and break dancing next to a beatboxer even back then Hammer had the energy and the moves and he could draw in small crowds with his splits and head spinning one day he encountered the A's owner Charlie Finley

and made an impression after completing his uh dance he recognized me as the owner of the ball club and worked over to me and he said Mr Finley uh uh could you take me uh into the game as your guest and I said yes uh I'd be glad to and uh I get pretty well acquainted with the hammer from there Hammer got hired at the team's bat boy and became good friends with many of the A's players from the 70s he became the eyes and is of the boss Charlie Finley in fact it was one

of the Oakland A's players who gave him the nickname L Hammer due to his resemblance with the legendary Hank Aaron who was called The Hammer so with that sort of hype on his shoulder it makes sense that he wanted to try his luck at being a baseball player but himmer wasn't cut out for it and after leaving school it was looking like the streets with the the only career option but he wasn't about to let his mom down crime drugs why don't you think you went that way where you ever tempted to go that way

was I ever tempted um I would say that anybody who grew up on my block had to be tempted what made you stop it and say this is not what I'm going to do and how close did you get well what made me stopped was my mother I knew how hard she worked to provide for us as a single parent and I know I knew that it would break her heart to find out that one of her children uh was involved in any aspect in drugs instead Hammer chose the Navy and went off to serve

for 3 years when he came back he was as religious as he's ever been so he decided to form a Christian rap group called The Holy Ghost boyh Bo the turn it [Music] out when that didn't go anywhere he dropped it and pulled on his Oakland A's connection to bankroll his own record label busted records from here it was all hustle and hard work for Hammer he sold his first album F my power out of his basement and car and also performed at any place that would take him he somehow managed to push 60,000 copies

on his own through his own label he couldn't sing and he couldn't produce but he could dance his ass off and this was what made him famous at this point in the late 80s himmer had a whole crew of dancers with him and he gave that crew the full military treatment with 8-hour rehearsal sessions and hard curfew I don't want to ever have to call somebody's mother or father and say I got bad news for you they found your daughter this morning uh dead on 10 Street about 4:00 I think the first question from that

parent mind would be Hammer I let my daughter go with you what was she doing out at 4:00 in the morning on temp street so therefore I accept my responsibility and if I get laid on a disciplinarian then again thank you in 1988 not long after that him assigned a multi-million dollar deal with Capital Records and our boy had officially hit the big time and now living a good life his first two albums released with Capital Records were insanely successful and contained Mega hits like prey Too Legit to Quit and the viral you can't touch

this at a time when rap was just settling into the mainstream MC Hammer was already way out in front and a couple of the homies wer too happy about it cuz they didn't consider Hammer to be an actual ual wer nowadays A lot of people defend hammer on this point but back in the day Hammer himself also thought he wasn't a real G are you a rapper or not well in in one unescapable aspect yes and that is the fact that I don't sing you know I'm not singing My lyrics I'm rapping uh but in

every other aspect the answer is no I'm not a rapper I entertain I say that in not meaning any uh dis respect to other rappers or other rap artists just saying um if you want to continue to say what you is is pure rap and and so forth okay you you have that you can have that you take the Chevrolet I'll take the Mercedes this might seem like a small difference but this issue right here was pretty much the bread and butter of every single beef MC Hammer would be a part of you see while

the kids and the white moms loved MC Hammer because of his clean image other rappers didn't respect him they would see Hammer up on stage dancing in colorful balloon pants and wonder how this goofy looking man made it so big but despite all of that hammer was proud of his dancing he even ensured his leg for $10 million how much did you Ure your legs for 10 million your legs are worth 10 million hey don't put it that way no they worth more than that what's more is that even his label asked him to dirty

up his image a little bit they wanted him to portray that Gangsta persona but himmer had no interest in that life MC Hammer was just going to be MC Hammer he wasn't trying to be anyone else to sell records I've even had a record company and I I don't want to lamb blast nobody's name or anything but they told me H you know what the problem is you're a little too clean here's what we going to do why don't you start to uh uh do a few things that maybe uh dirty up your image a

little bit maybe we can sell a little more records I've had all that I told him go you know that's not me I live that life I've been around with people involved in that I'm going to continue to do what I do whether they like it or not I'm going to try to encourage the kids to do the right thing that doesn't mean I live a perfect life I'm telling them to stay away from them negative things so that they won't ruin their life now because of his squeaky clean image other rappers thought that they

could take shots at hmer without no repercussion although to be fair MC Hammer started a few beat himself like the one with Run DMC the reason why we say some things about Hammer he started off his career dis and Run DMC he Dred up three guys in gold ropes in his in his first couple of videos that hats you know had a guy with glass had guys looking like all three of us and disrespected Us in two of his videos so he knows that you know what I mean when he seen us when he got

lar you seen us he tried to apologize for it he was like yo you know don't wake down to apologize you should apologized when you first did it but it's cool we ain't got nothing against you you know what I mean you cool we don't care about what you he said and we he said that I hope y'all sell 20 million albums and I think he was sincere when he said that you know what I mean he said a little statement the other day about us being sour grapes and just beefing because we they asked

us what we think about MC Hammer and we said you know he can't rap he's not a good rapper great Entertainer he's a great Entertainer but he can't rap you know what I'm saying you take away the jumping around you take away the 50 people on the stage with them and he's not even he's not even doing the fake rap that he do he got his homeboy screaming all his vocals and he's just jumping around you know what I'm saying so okay take commercial we come right back commercial we'll be right back this was pretty

much how the rap culture felt about hermer at the time and they all felt comfortable taking shots at him including Tupac and touch this by MC okay and why do you like that one cuz it's raging and he's funkey funky dance steps now okay no but there's parents out there listening to this that think he's serious why is the audience laughing I want to ask you why do so many people get on Hammer I mean the man sold 10 million records I'm not getting on Han and I'm not going to say he did sell 10

million records but the crack fiend bought 10 million rocks that don't mean crack is good don't mean sell record don't mean the reason I me mean I I'm down with him because he's a brother and he's making his mail but however he's diluting rap you know what I'm saying he's making something he's playing that rooll and the reason everybody's buying his record is cuz he's no threat and everybody want to see dance but one person who Hammer wasn't going to take from was Red Man red man did MC Hammer by making fun of his mother

on his skit in his first album now think about everything we've covered in this video so far Hammer was a Christian millionaire ex-military a rapper who grew up in Oakland and only managed to stay off the drugs because he wanted to honor his mama how do you think this man's going to react when somebody disrespects his mother now with hammer you can make fun of his outfits all you like but if you speak on his mama yo you going to get checked himmer wasn't the kind of guy that would make a diss track for you

if he had a problem he pulled up on the person and that's exactly what he did to Red Man listen to my first album when I did the skit and I was like you know what that goddamn MC Hammer him his mama and the whole n that came up to me on MTV Cribs on the last episode they had where everybody out on not MTV Cribs sorry about that I'm Zone um on the last uh Dr Dre and Ed Lover uh on MTV when they had the last episode your MTV Raps yeah y MTV Raps

when the last episode they shot when they had everybody rapping on it MC Hammer was there that approached me he was like red I'mma tell you something you young but I don't allow nobody talking about my mom you understand me I said yes sir red man said he had to apologize to MC Hammer because Hammer was rolling deep in the area and he was about to get boxed in look that goddamn MC Hammer very serious about beef y'all mother laugh and y'all joke about Hammer no no no no that was deep with and he used

to what anybody who talks come to the Bay Area they was in for it and in case you still don't believe it then let me tell you about him as beef with the group Third Base you see red man was lucky all he got was a mod threatening conversation but for MC search of Third Base he and his homies almost died trying to escape from La it all started when the Rap Trio dis hammer on their song the cactus by saying the line the cactus turned Hammer's mother out the line was apparently a play on

words from Hammer's song turn his mother out in a desert no price tags a household to and a stank hole the cactus turned Ham's mother out there it is Hammer took this as a serious line crossed and he was about to let them know their Bas tour was due to come to LA and ahead of it the president of Death Jam received an anonymous call from him's Brother Lis Burell he asked if the group was still coming to California the lady says yes and Burell responds by saying good they are dead third bases team was

shaken so they had to make some inquiries they called Eric B for the word on the street and Eric returned the call you know letting them know like yes there's a $50,000 bounty on your head calls Russell and goes yeah it's true there's a hit there's a hit uh rolling 60 Crips 30,000 members $50,000 dead that was their last chance to turn around but at this point MC search wasn't scared yet so they hired a security detail and OG Crips member known in the streets as Barefoot Pooky to guard them as they rolled into town

MC search still didn't take the threat as serious as he should so he took his wife to Louis Vuitton in Beverly Hills and this was when he started to catch some heat guys were pulling up on him from around the corners but pooki was a well-respected name in the streets plugged in with the Crips and a couple of gang signs were all it took to diffuse the whole thing search thanked his lucky stars and got the hell out of there the next day after the amas where Hammer picked up two Awards third Bas showed up

for the KDAY radio show as the show was going on hammer called in live to confront him on air yeah uh well we spoke about you know the issue about people dissing people and you know that's been going on for quite a while so you know that's something that we I guess we grown accustomed to but uh in there in this particular record that we speaking of uh uh these fellas crossed over the lion I believe it's it's it's the lion in there where they refer to my mother and we know right now uh you

know in this world we live today everybody uh loves their mother and for one reason or another uh you don't play with people's mothers and I believe that these fellas have have made a mistake yo G uh I just like to interrupt a second you can speak upon that I think mothers are great people everybody loves their mother I think what Third Base was airmed to if you could take it a step further into your mind I think it refers more to the song Turn This Mother Out I think that's what it's a reference to

G so you're not you're not talking about Hammer's mother you're like Hammer's mother no yo you got to understand that that where the record is coming from in the depth of the record is dealing with something that's not on a direct level we're not on the literal we're on the subliminal there you go you know what I'm saying and and to take that personally yo as far as the group is concerned that's that's just nonsense you know what I'm saying I think that the whole album is positive and for us to revert to something that's

stupid I mean you know it's not like anything it's first of all it's not like it's not like something that brother's going to hear on the radio and and and take us as as a a sarcasm towards your family but well you know what that's good for you to stay over the over the air but and and and of course you know like I know that that that was F for you but but is as we speak you know the truth yourself but that's okay you understand because there have been mistakes made before and right

now for you to say that you were saying something different that doesn't change in actuality what was said and uh despite Hammer giving them an easy chance to apologize here MC sege still tries to play it tough telling Hammer that he just doesn't get it uh you know your your manager has called and and he's talked to us and things have been said but uh again we we we'll talk on a different level ourselves you know not over the air um but but again to cross over that line in any form when you don't play

with the word mother at all nobody money grip you play with the word mother turn his mother out so what are you talking about what are you speaking upon well well you I'm telling you I'm telling you from third B from Brooklyn New York that yo that was a reference to your record Turn This Mother Out it doesn't matter where you from you turn the mother out was that what you talking about you talking about someone else's mother come on G get get above the bring bring yourself above the level of that type of thinking

on your record Turn This Mother Out I think anyone who knows about hip-hop would know about it but what about that brother who doesn't know about hip-hop and you're talking about turning out somebody's Mom you can take it on and you can take anything on several levels the intelligent brother would look Beyond it and say yo it was something that set on a record and unless you address us I mean the only time we ever talked was right here you know what I'm saying you're talking about dealing on another level another level you speaking to

us right now and we're giving you an answer so that didn't go well at all and after hammer got off the phone search went on to talk some more trash leading to an anonymous call coming in telling them they were all dead the city just got sweet after that the security rushed them out of the building and they had to wear cavalar vest for the rest of their state in California as they had real gangsters whenever they drove anywhere this near-death experience SC MC search as he revealed that he was going to therapy over it

for more than two decades your name of your album was turn this Mother's Turn This Mother Out the our album was the cactus the cactus turned Hammer's mother out it was it was a dope line I'm good I'm not good I've gone through 25 years of therapy 3 days a week I am not good I wish I could be good but when somebody tries to kill you over or a rap lyric When I see these things where he's like ah man you know I had you know Oaktown 357 sold more records than third base and

so I I just want to like put a gun in his mouth you know what I mean like like but but that's me like that's my anger that has nothing to do with him that's like me taking poison and waiting for him to die at this point everybody already knew that hammer wasn't to be messed with in fact too short another Oakland rapper who came up at the same time said that the only unbelievable part of search's story is the part that he had to put up $50,000 for the hit according to him Hammer was

well connected and if he really wanted somebody whacked people would even do it for free I wouldn't agree to that but I would say um without spending any money Hammer could have told some people to him the up like like that wouldn't have been it wouldn't I know who Hammer was affiliated with and he wouldn't have to pay to get to tell somebody to somebody upse his people would just do it we from Oakland like you don't even he wouldn't even have to say it they just if somebody was making Hammer uncomfortable without him saying

I'm uncomfortable somebody around him would have came to you and said quit making Hammer uncomfortable right it would have been like like a a a non-negotiable statement and you best believe it because other performers like Godfrey and Lord Jamal have confirmed that hammer used to roll over 100 deep in the Bay Area one show I remember back in the days with hammer it was kme Summer Jam or whatever it was and yo his Entourage was something like I never seen in my life like it was literally 100 people more than people that's it was girls

guys gangsters dancers everybody MC Hammer even had members of the Crips apologizing to him when the top G stepped to hammer and demanded that they be hired as protection himmer told him that he already got like 12 bodyguards with them hey man this LA and everything man and things can happen you know what I'm saying you to holler me man you know what I'm saying holler me for protection I'm say protection for what you see man I got I got 12 bodyguards out here for five them straight killer you know what I'm saying so what

you talking about you know what I'm saying I don't need no protection when the Crips member refused to back off even going as far as to even threaten him in response him told him that one phone call was all he needed to set everything straight the next morning you had gangsters apologizing to hammer admitting that he didn't know that his connections were that deep hey what's up he said today man it's like this I'll make one phone call and all this will go away I'm through with it let's go load up everybody we left next

morning my conception was in the hotel the lobby hey man he saw me I was down there doing something something hey man hey you out there with hammer last night was you I play like I know what you're talking about hey man tell Hammer man he talk to him whatever saw somebody one our bodyguards whatever I guess they call and told Hammer what was up Hammer was stting him you know what I'm saying but when Hammer did come down he I was like hey h you for a minute whatever Lou walk past Mich conception yeah

okay you for a minute man man man hey bro I apologize man man let me talk to you for a minute said what's up man man I apologize for the thing I didn't know you know the people you knew whatever this that I apologize for what I did brother it's all good we cool we good him like yeah yeah it's all right apart from all that another beef MC Hammer had was with Ice Cube Cube dissed hammer on the song he did entitled true to the game in the music video for the song He portrays

Hammer getting tied up kidnapped duck tape and thrown into the trunk of a car Hammer saw the video and immediately rallied the truth he took his guys and zoomed off to Rosco's Chicken of waffles on Vine Street to ask ice crebe some choice questions according to a member of Hammer's tour crew Q fell into line and assured hammer it wasn't going to happen again we was all standing out there and Q came outside with bags and here the food so he stepped out he looked around like he look crazy like he was scared dude was

scared he like man what what's going on so hammer stepped out like what's up Cube he said hey what's up Hammer's what's going on he said yeah I come to hot ATU uh player about the video you did but you know by by by TI me up and everything and duct tap me and throwing me in the trunk and drive me around or whatever man that ain't cool Cube was like H Hammer man hey man hey man it's just it's just a video bro I mean I don't really mean it like that man Hammer like

yo man that ain't cool bro he said look I'm out here trying to break barriers and do things for us as brothers man trying to make it better for us out here in this music game and you up here dissing me talking about thr I'm in the trunk or whatever he said man I'm tell you I ain't going for it bro he said don't let it happen again he said no sir it would not happen again I know y'all saw the YouTube with red man talking about hammer on play I I don't know why people

thought Hammer was soft or whatever Hammer I saw it myself several times Hammer was never pumped anyway before it imploded MC Hammer did sign to death row and working alongside Su Knight just Amplified his reputation as a gangster and that's just the stories we've heard there's so much more that we probably have no idea about but either way pretty much everybody in the rap game got to know that MC h Hammer is not to be messed with hammer was RA dog he did his thing I actually used to like Hammer know what I'm saying on

the realp people be talking you know talking about Hammer but run up on Hammer beat I bet you beat your ass run up on Hammer