Active Duty

by

MC Hammer

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When i first popped in the funky fresh illness that is Hammer i thought yo yo home slice this vertical, cornicopia of mansupilific beats and rymes that hit hard like goat cheese to the dome are sweeter than seeing the light of day after being locked up in grandpa's cellar with nothin but his favorite cat and dirty videos of donkey's. When I showed it to my friends at school they were all like "yo new kid get this cd out of my face and give me your lunch money" i couldn't have expressed it better my friends Hammers newest cd is "money" like a new kid's lunch. Please Hammer don't hurt em just rock they heads like a blind kid in a cement eating contest.

I was, like most Hammer fans, excited to see this album in stores, but I must say that my money would have been better spent on any of his other albums. There are a lot of bad songs here, especially becasue Hammer doesn't even appear on a number of them. And the good songs aren't even that great: Hammer's never been great with his delivery or lyrics, but as time has passed, it seems like he's gotten worse. He tries bragging about himself and his crew, but that's not exactly something he should be doing ten years after his heyday. The few bright spots really stick out ("Our Style," featuing some skillful rhyming from the Stooge Playas, and "Ain't no Stoppin' Us") because of the weakness of the rest of the album. I hate to drop on Hammer, but this was really not this attempted comeback was more of an embarassment than anything.