MC Hammer: Hammerman Turns Into A Caped Anti-War Crusader

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Hammerman Turns Into A Caped Anti-War Crusader

AOL Music's PopEater Blog has a dispatch from Bamboozle, the two-day, eight-stage, emo-stuffed festival that caused Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewitinn to denounce emo from the hilltops. Also on the bill was MC Hammer, who devoted part of his show to an antiwar protest:

The fun got a little bit awkward, however, when the dancers toted American flag-adorned coffins on stage while Hammer launched into an anti-war rant recruiting participants for a text message capable petition and presented a new song called 'Bring Our Brothers Home.'

What the PopEaters forgot to mention—and we swear we are not making this up—was this: after that song was finished, Hammer implored the crowd to text into the petition, because once the soldiers left Iraq, the U.S. could thumb their nose at the terrorists, sending them an important message:

"U Can't Touch This."

Which was, of course, followed by a performance of the track.

MC Hammer Rocks The Bamboozle [Pop Eater]

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1:35 PM on Tue May 8 2007
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by Ned Raggett at 12:42 PM on 05/08/07
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My mind cannot process any of this.
by Chicago Bureau at 12:50 PM on 05/08/07
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Hammer comes out against the war.

Is this the Tipping Point? I think so.
by chrisb at 12:57 PM on 05/08/07
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It is somewhat telling that has-been acts like MC Hammer and Public Enemy are producing anti-war songs while top 10 acts in their prime today don't have the balls to do so.
by The Van Buren Boys at 01:18 PM on 05/08/07
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Seeing Hammer do that would have almost made it worthwhile to go to that shitshow of a festival. The key word of course being almost.
by Audif Jackson Winters III at 01:32 PM on 05/08/07
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Come on, Hammer. You know the U.S. is 2 Legit 2 Quit Iraq.
by twenty-four hour priapism at 01:37 PM on 05/08/07
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We got Hammer involved in the anti-war movement!? Mission Accomplished!
by Whigged at 02:03 PM on 05/08/07
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Is that Snorg Tees chick sporting a combover?!?!
by Chris Molanphy at 02:04 PM on 05/08/07
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Back in the days of Gulf War I - winter '91, the height of Hammer's fame - Mr. Genie Pants had a choice between two war-related tribute records and threw his then-considerable weight toward Sean Lennon's/Lenny Kravitz's "Give Peace a Chance" remake, rather than the all-star, pro-troops, all-crap "Voices That Care." (To be fair, the "Peace" remake was, musically, also pretty lame.)

So anyway, Hammer was legit on the war even back in the day. Proper!
by Jupiter8 at 03:12 PM on 05/08/07
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@chrisb:
Amen-not to mention all the hipster navel-gazing acts who have 12 trombone players on stage blaring away at once...

I get the feeling Hammer was basically there as some ironic joke (the musical Mr. T) and at least he made the kids (who would get politicized in about 5 seconds if the draft ever came back) have to think about the unpleasantness of war....