MC Hammer discography#Additional tracks

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The discography of American rapper MC Hammer includes the hit records "U Can't Touch This", "Pray" and "2 Legit 2 Quit". Hammer is known for his flashy dance movements, choreography and Hammer pants. His superstar-status and entertaining showmanship made him a household name and hip hop icon.

• {{cite web|url=http://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2009/09/08/mc-hammer-at-six-flags/ |title=MC Hammer At Six Flags |work=Events |author=John Frenaye |publisher=Eye On Annapolis |date=September 8, 2009 |access-date=October 5, 2011 }}
• {{cite news|url=http://mmajunkie.com/news/20689/mmajunkie-com-radio-mc-hammer-sean-sherk-dave-pee-wee-herman.mma |title=Radio: MC Hammer, Sean Sherk, Dave "Pee Wee" Herman |work=MMAjunkie.com |date=September 17, 2010 |access-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922110706/http://mmajunkie.com/news/20689/mmajunkie-com-radio-mc-hammer-sean-sherk-dave-pee-wee-herman.mma |archive-date=September 22, 2010 }}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.aetv.com/hammertime/meet-family/index.jsp |title=Hammertime - Meet the Family - A&E TV |publisher=Aetv.com |access-date=May 10, 2011 }}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.harrahslaketahoe.com/EventsDetail.do?detailName=m-c-hammer-detail&locationCode=TAH |title=M C Hammer at Harrah's Lake Tahoe - and more Reno/tahoe Shows and Events |publisher=Harrahslaketahoe.com |access-date=May 10, 2011 }}
• {{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining/116646/mc-hammer-named-after-baseball-legend/ |title=MC Hammer Named After Baseball Legend |work=Hip-Hop Media Training |publisher=New.music.yahoo.com |author=Billy Johnson, Jr. |date=June 4, 2009 |access-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611191037/http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining/116646/mc-hammer-named-after-baseball-legend |archive-date=June 11, 2009 }} Hammer has sold more than 50 million records worldwide,{{cite web|url=https://blackdoctor.org/mc-hammer-celebrates-35-years-married/ |title=MC Hammer Celebrates 35 Years Married! |date=March 30, 2020 |first1=Derrick |last1=Lane |accessdate=December 6, 2022 |website=blackdoctor.org}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/08/26/under-the-hammer-2|title = Under the Hammer|magazine = The New Yorker|date = August 19, 1996}}{{Cite web|url=https://rare.makersplace.com/2021/10/29/upcoming-drops-zevi-g-mc-hammer-and-yiying-lu/|title = Upcoming Drops- Zevi G., MC HAMMER and Yiying Lu | MakersPlace Blog|date = October 30, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=awards_by_artist#search_section|title=Gold & Platinum|website=Recording Industry Association of America}}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/television/13hammertime.html?_r=1|title= Where a Fallen Rap Star Is Still No. 1|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=December 31, 2010}} breaking down numerous doors for rap music and demonstrating that hip-hop had the potential for blockbuster success.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mc-hammer-mn0000181460/songs|title=MC Hammer Best Songs List: Top, New, & Old|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/mc-hammer-bust-it-records-feature/|title = MC Hammer and the Legacy of Oakland's Bust-It Records|date = March 30, 2022}} A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a "forefather/pioneer" and innovator{{cite magazine|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n2_v46/ai_9177118/ |title='It's Hammer time!' M.C. Hammer: upbeat performer with high-voltage stage show broadens rap's appeal |magazine=Ebony |date=December 1990 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212205304/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n2_v46/ai_9177118 |archive-date=December 12, 2007 }} of pop rap (incorporating elements of freestyle music), and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album.{{cite web|url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r27923|pure_url=yes}}|website = AllMusic|title = Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em: Overview}}{{cite press release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/08-06-2001/0001548803 |title=Hammertime Holdings Retains OTC Financial Network To Direct Investor Relations Campaign |publisher=PR Newswire |access-date=March 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030125112446/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F08-06-2001%2F0001548803 |archive-date=January 25, 2003 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine|last=Cassidy |first=John |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/08/26/1996_08_26_062_TNY_CARDS_000376033 |title=The Talk of the Town: Under the Hammer |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 7, 2009 |access-date=March 31, 2010}}

Throughout his career, Hammer has managed his own recording business and created independent record labels such as Bust It Records, Oaktown Records, Full Blast Digital Music Group and World Hit Records. He has introduced, signed and produced new talent (his own acts collaborating with him and producing music of their own during his career){{cite web|url=http://www.mchammer.com/ |title=Mchammer.Com |publisher=Mchammer.Com |access-date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402093529/http://mchammer.com/ |archive-date=April 2, 2010 }} including: Oaktown's 3.5.7, Common Unity, DRS, the vocal quintet Special Generation, Analise,{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1455917/20020702/mc_hammer.jhtml |title=Hammer - Rhapsody Music Downloads |publisher=VH1.com |access-date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022023125/http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1455917/20020702/mc_hammer.jhtml |archive-date=October 22, 2012 }} James Greer, One Cause One Effect, DASIT (as seen on Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show),{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/dasit/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729062711/http://new.music.yahoo.com/dasit/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |title=Dasit on Yahoo! Music |publisher=New.music.yahoo.com |access-date=March 31, 2010 }} Teabag, Dom Kimberley, Geeman,{{cite web |url=http://music.aol.com/album/family-affair/314828 |title=Family Affair - MC Hammer |publisher=Music.aol.com |date=June 23, 1998 |access-date=March 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711211513/http://music.aol.com/album/family-affair/314828 |archive-date=July 11, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Pleasure Ellis,{{cite web|url=http://dancejam.com/videos/1054590090-espn-mondy-night-football-commercia |title="ESPN Mondy Night Football Commercial with MC Hammer And Pleasure Ellis" video at |publisher=Dancejam.com |date=August 18, 2008 |access-date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206204026/http://dancejam.com/videos/1054590090-espn-mondy-night-football-commercia |archive-date=February 6, 2010 }} B Angie B, The Stooge Playaz, Ho Frat Hoo!{{Cite web|url=http://www.daveyd.com/fnvdec152000.html|title=FNV Newsletter December 15|website=Daveyd.com}} and Wee Wee, among others. A part of additional record labels, he has associated/collaborated/recorded with: VMF, Tupac Shakur, Teddy Riley, Felton Pilate, Tha Dogg Pound, Whole 9,{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/album/m-c-hammer/the-funky-headhunter/151742#/album/m-c-hammer/the-funky-headhunter/151742 |title=The Funky Headhunter - MC Hammer | Billboard.com |magazine=Billboard |access-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-date=January 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124061903/http://www.billboard.com/album/m-c-hammer/the-funky-headhunter/151742#/album/m-c-hammer/the-funky-headhunter/151742 |url-status=dead }} Deion Sanders, Big Daddy Kane, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Jon Gibson (or J.G.), among others.

Before Hammer's successful career (and his "rags-to-riches-to-rags-and-back saga"),{{cite news|url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-06-11-hammertime_N.htm?csp=34|title = MC Hammer opens his home to viewers in new reality show|newspaper = USA Today|last = Strauss|first = Gary|date = June 11, 2009}} Burrell formed a Christian rap group known as the Holy Ghost Boy(s) with Gibson, producing songs such as "Word",{{cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/track/01aMuHhGv4Ui5F6fh6RkqK |title=Word - song by MC Hammer |website=Spotify |access-date=July 7, 2022}} "B-Boy Chill"{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/mc-hammer/tracks/b-boy-chill--54942341 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105143315/http://new.music.yahoo.com/mc-hammer/tracks/b-boy-chill--54942341 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |publisher=new.music.yahoo.com |title=MC Hammer: B-Boy Chill }} and "Stupid Def Yal" (1987).{{cite web|url=https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=MC%20Hammer%20And%20The%20Posse&title=Stupid%20Def%20Yal%20%2F%20Ring%27%20Em |title=MC Hammer And The Posse - Stupid Def Yal - Ring 'Em - Artist Info |website=Music.Metason.Net |access-date=July 7, 2022}} Additionally, "The Wall" featured Hammer{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/mc-hammer/tracks/?artist=mc-hammer&page=2 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105102604/http://new.music.yahoo.com/mc-hammer/tracks/?artist=mc-hammer&page=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |title=MC Hammer Songs - Yahoo! Music |publisher=New.music.yahoo.com |access-date=March 31, 2010 }} (it was originally within this song that he first identified himself as K.B. and then M.C. Hammer before its release),{{cite web|url = http://cdbaby.com/cd/jongibson|publisher = cdbaby.com|title = Jon Gibson: Soulful Hymns|access-date = December 3, 2013|archive-date = November 16, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111116195000/http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jongibson|url-status = dead}}{{cite web|url = https://www.amazon.com/Love-Education-Jon-Gibson/dp/B000008P2A|title = Jon Gibson: Love Education|website = Amazon|year = 1997}} which was later released on Gibson's album Change of Heart (1988).{{cite web|url = http://music.aol.com/album/change-of-heart/96188|publisher = music.aol.com|title = Jon Gibson: Change of Heart|access-date = December 3, 2013|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120714020823/http://music.aol.com/album/change-of-heart/96188|archive-date = July 14, 2012|url-status = dead}} This was CCM's first rap hit by a blue-eyed soul singer and/or duo.{{cite web|url=http://www.frontlinerecords.us/artists/?58|title=Jon Gibson - Frontline Records|author=Darren Beckett|website=Frontlinerecords.us}} "Son of the King" showed up on Hammer's debut album Feel My Power (1986), as well as the re-released version Let's Get It Started (1988).{{cite web|url = http://www.rhapsody.com/mc-hammer/lets-get-it-started|title = MC Hammer 'Let's Get It Started' track listing|publisher = rhapsody.com}}{{cite web|url = http://www.soultracks.com/jon_gibson.htm|title = Jon Gibson profile|date = May 7, 2007| publisher = soultracks.com}} Burrell and Tramaine Hawkins previously performed with Gibson's band in several concerts at various venues, such as the Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills.{{cite web|url = http://new.music.yahoo.com/mc-hammer/tracks/?artist%5B0%5D=mc-hammer&artist%5B1%5D=mc-hammer&page=4|publisher = new.music.yahoo.com|title = MC Hammer Tracks|format = track listing}}

At about the age of 12, Oakland native Keyshia Cole recorded with Hammer and sought career advice from him.{{cite web|last=Hall |first=Rashaun |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1494637/20041208/cole_keyshia.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050125203555/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1494637/20041208/cole_keyshia.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2005 |title=Keyshia Cole Has Kanye, Shyne On LP, Proof That Stalking MC Hammer Pays Off News |publisher=MTV |date=December 9, 2004 |access-date=May 10, 2011}}{{cite web |author=March 5, 2009, by J.R. |url=http://www.hiphoprx.com/2009/03/05/keyshia-cole-on-chelsea-lately-talks-tupac-mc-hammer-and-kissing/ |title=Keyshia Cole on Chelsea Lately: Talks Tupac, MC Hammer and Kissing! |publisher=Hiphoprx.com |date=March 5, 2009 |access-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926063731/http://www.hiphoprx.com/2009/03/05/keyshia-cole-on-chelsea-lately-talks-tupac-mc-hammer-and-kissing/ |archive-date=September 26, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://music.aol.com/video/qanda-what-was-it-like-to-work-with-mc/keyshia-cole/1973322 |title=Q&A: What was it like to work with MC Hammer? Video by Keyshia Cole - AOL Music |publisher=Music.aol.com |access-date=May 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927162519/http://music.aol.com/video/qanda-what-was-it-like-to-work-with-mc/keyshia-cole/1973322 |archive-date=September 27, 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/7050/keisha-cole |title=Keisha Cole |publisher=Sheknows.com |access-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928074717/http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/7050/keisha-cole |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }} In 1992, Doug E. Fresh was signed to Hammer's Bust It Records label. Hammer signed with Suge Knight's Death Row Records in 1995.{{Cite web|url=https://longreads.com/2019/05/14/shelved-tupac-and-mc-hammers-doomed-collaboration/|title=Shelved: Tupac and MC Hammer's Promising Collaboration|date=May 14, 2019|website=Longreads|language=en|access-date=April 28, 2020}}

In late 2012, Hammer appeared with Psy at the 40th American Music Awards and during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve performing a mashup of "Gangnam Style" and "2 Legit 2 Quit" together, which was released on iTunes.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/gangnam-style-2-legit-2-quit-mashup-feat-mc-hammer-single/1445290534|title=Gangnam Style / 2 Legit 2 Quit Mashup (feat. MC Hammer) - Single by PSY|website=iTunes|date=January 1, 2012}} Hammer released "Raider Nation (Oakland Raiders Anthem)" along with a video in late 2013 and "All in My Mind" (which samples "Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers) in early 2014, with his newly formed group Oakland Fight Club (featuring Mistah F.A.B.).{{cite web|url=http://mchammer.blogspot.com/2013/11/oakland-fight-club.html|title=MC Hammer Blog: OAKLAND FIGHT CLUB|first=Mc|last=Hammer|date=November 2, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://allhiphop.com/2014/02/02/mc-hammer-the-oakland-fightclub-all-in-my-mind/|title=MC HAMMER & THE OAKLAND FIGHTCLUB - "ALL IN MY MIND" - AllHipHop.com|date=February 2, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://fieldofteams.csnbayarea.com/2013/11/04/hammer-and-oakland-fight-club-create-a-new-raiders-anthem/|title=MC Hammer and Oakland Fight Club create a new Raiders Anthem|access-date=April 15, 2016|archive-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006082735/http://fieldofteams.csnbayarea.com/2013/11/04/hammer-and-oakland-fight-club-create-a-new-raiders-anthem/|url-status=dead}}