Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

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Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em cover
Studio album by MC Hammer
Released March 13, 1990
Recorded 1989
Genre Pop, Hip hop
Length 59:04
Label Capitol
Professional reviews
MC Hammer chronology
Let's Get It Started
(1988)		 Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em'
(1990)		 Too Legit to Quit
(1991)

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is the second album by MC Hammer, released in 1990 by Capitol Records. The album was a #1 smash hit for 21 weeks, due primarily to the runaway single, "U Can't Touch This". The album was notable for sampling high-profile artists and giving some of these artists a new fanbase. "U Can't Touch This" sampled "Super Freak" by Rick James; "Dancin' Machine" sampled the Jackson 5; "Have You Seen Her" is a semi-cover of the Chi-Lites song; "Help the Children" interpolates Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"; "Pray" and "She's Soft and Wet" sample the Prince hits "When Doves Cry" and "Soft and Wet" respectively. The album raised rap music to a new level of popularity. It was the first hip-hop album certified diamond by the RIAA for sales of over ten million, and remains among the genre's all-time best-selling albums.

Despite its enormous success, it received mixed critical reviews from people who thought it relied too much on sampling past hits and was overly pop-oriented.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Here Comes the Hammer"
  2. "U Can't Touch This"
  3. "Have You Seen Her" (remake)
  4. "Yo! Sweetness"
  5. "Help the Children"
  6. "On Your Face"
  7. "Dancin' Machine"
  8. "Pray"
  9. "Crime Story"
  10. "She's Soft and Wet"
  11. "Black is Black"
  12. "Let's Go Deeper"
  13. "Work This"


[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1990 The Billboard 200 1

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1990 "U Can't Touch This" Billboard Hot 100 8
"Have You Seen Her" 4
"Pray" 2
"U Can't Touch This" Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles & Tracks 1
1991 "Here Comes the Hammer" Billboard Hot 100 54
Preceded by
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinéad O'Connor		 Billboard 200 number-one album
June 9 - June 29, 1990
July 7 - November 10, 1990		 Succeeded by
Step By Step by New Kids on the Block
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MC Hammer
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Hammerman · Capitol · Death Row Records · Giant Records · EMI · WorldHit

[edit] Movies

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em was also the title of a movie by MC Hammer that he starred in and created. Director: Rupert Wainwright, Producer: Jon Oetgen, Director of Photography: Bill Zarchy. Filmed entirely on location in Hammer's home town, Oakland CA.

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