MC Hammer Interview with Mark Lamarr (The Word 1994)

[EB1050482]

I know what you mean, being there. xx

[kiuhy8]

mark lamarr at his best was wicked and funny

[LecceDiPane]

Lol mc hammer trying to lose the hip hop image of the 80s and adopt the gangster rap image. You can never escape your past hammer.

FAIL!

[MrTulip65]

"Exile on Main Street"!! hahah

[DJHarrie]

sellout!!!

[Stn3dRaid3r]

hammer showing off he not fake by saying there's no gangsta rappers, right there!

[hotblk100]

1991 GRAMMYS MC HAMMER PERFORMANCE BEST I HAD EVER SEEN OF ALL TIMES COPY PAST SEE THAT MY MAN BE DOIN DANCIN HIS THING BOY OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY 1991 FOR REAL

[leopower7]

CAN'T TOUCH THIS!!

[kgmurray]

two dickheads.

[coachroun]

stop

[MGVaughan1986]

@coachroun HAMMER TIME!!

[bigbosscentral90]

lamarr's great.

[assmuncher1984]

Employment, education and recreation could do a lot of good for Snoop and other misguided youths.

[assmuncher1984]

I think they forgot to turn the mic on, I see it there on his shirt.

[surfin4]

great show

[rastabus]

I remember two things about the word: Mark Lamarr was good, and Terry Christian was bad, I think my memory has served me fairly well, don't you?

[vulcandeathpinch]

still true man

[alxjmartin]

Absolutely.

[p1nkAcid]

he forgot sensual

[TheCuriousOrange83]

Mark Lamarr's trousers are great.

[misfitbunny]

i was born in 1994 2/16/94 FTW =]

[innit27]

terry is more gangsta than hammer

[mbandrews1]

@innit27

You Hammer is from Oakland? Most who know Hammer say that Hammer would roll with the Hardest Crews. Ask Chris Rock, who was scared of Hammer after he made a joke about Suge Knight in his comedy.

[innit27]

The guy was born in 1962. He tried to jump on the gangsta rap bandwagon when he was 32 (and already a multi-millionaire) in 1994 with the release of The Funky Headhunter. He was not brought up in a gangsta rap background, it was purely a commercial decision and it failed. He was living in a $12 million mansion at the time of his venture into gangast rap.

[mbandrews1]

You are wrong. When did he EVER say he was gangsta? NEVER!!! He even said real gangstas don't make rap albums. The Funky Headhunter was about him getting back at those who dogged him on their albums. He got love from Suge, Snoop, and Tupac. They called him. Watch Inside Deathrow, here on youtube. Suge wanted to prove to those talking about Hammer that he still had it. The Media said he was gangsta because he dressed different. Is that what the WHITE media calls gangsta? Get real.

[innit27]

He put on the LA gang type gear (just look at the clothes he wears in the interview) and tried talk street. A purely commercial ploy that backfired because he was already associated wth another equally silly image which he couldnt shake. It would be like Michael Jackson coming out and pretending to be a hardcore rapper from da street.

[Strafvollzieher]

@innit27 Michael Jackson coming out and pretending to be a hardcore rapper would be the most insane funny thing possible...too bad it will never happen now

[Mandinko23]

@Strafvollzieher man i was thinking of the same thing but too sad that we lost him forever im soo sad by that.

[thegirl44]

@innit27

This wasn't a commercial ploy, this WAS Hammer.

He and Vanilla Ice really got fucked, image wise, by their first label trying to make the music consumer friendly. My dad worked sound for Hammer for the North American leg of the '92 tour and said that the man was very different from the record label's image and as he's an old boy from Oakland I'm guessing that this was common attire for his day to day, I mean, he didn't sleep in those puffy pants.

[XionXi]

He seemed awfully overconfident for a one-hit wonder.

[mbandrews1]

He had four platinum (three multi-platinum) records. That is not a one-hit wonder. Hammer believe in help his community. He didn't just talk about giving back, he gave back. Tupac was the same way, that is probably why they became friends. They believed in helping young black brothas succeed in life, and keeping them off the streets. Tupac also had a big heart, behind the facade. If you ask Hammer was he gangsta, he would ALWAYS say no. Rappers are doing today what he did back then.

[05Cinco05]

People can talk all that noise about MC Hammer hatting on him, trying to say he was a wannabe ganster...music was changing during this time and fashion is forever changing...so if Hammer wore the same baggy pants today or If I wore some of the stuff we wore back in the day it would look off! Nobody ever talks about Dr Dre used to be a member of the World Class Wrecking Crew wear lace earings and makeup just like a chick...and then he turned "gangster" in NWA.

[mugabesunny]

I remember watching this when it first aired, it was fucking hilarious!

Whats funny is that Hammer's "Funky Headhunter" album is bloody fantastic, most of it was done by Teddy Riley, so its funky as hell!

[returnofdanbrown08]

Primal Scream!

[ringoice360]

why did death row sign mc hammer!! weird

[mbandrews1]

Suge and Hammer was friends. The goal was to help eachother out. Deathrow would promote Hammer and they would also clean up their image, which is what they were trying to do, but ity all fell through, because of Suge's legal troubles, and Tupac (Hammer's best friend at Deathrow) getting killed. Hammer has always defended certain rappers. He defended Ice-T when he made the song Cop Killer. He defended Snoop for what he does. The only people he badmouthed were the ones who talked about him.

[magpie1892]

Can anyone tell me the original transmission date in 1994 of this episode of The Word? Thanks in advance...

[DonScoreggia]

As we all know Hammer´s wannabe gangster image (around 1994/5) did not work out well after being a "pop rapper" for several years...later on he even tried to adopted other images which all did not work out either: For example the "very religious" Hammer (from 1997), Hammer "the patriot" (around 2001/2002), and yet again Hammer "the mainstream orientated rapper" (around 2006).

[mbandrews1]

Hammer never said he was gangsta, that was the media, but he was from Oakland, so he was no punk. His lyrics have always been hard "Turn this Mutha Out." In his songs he has always told everyone that they were weak and he was the best, but he also rapped about real life. Today, the rap industry is filled with Hammers. They are doing what he was called a sell out for. But Suge said that black people were jealous, because he had the money and the attention.

[keenly1]

this was when hammer was trying to be a gangster

[mbandrews1]

No, he never said he was gangsta. WHy can't he wear regular clothes. In 90, that was cool. It is not now. See him now, he's doing well, and he never complains. He's a regular guy, someone you could hang out with.

[thegirl44]

@mbandrews1

I can't wrap my head around people who can hate on a man who went broke trying to be Elvis Presley generous on a Carl Perkins payroll.

[buddieali]

From their new album .. Exile on Main Street.

Hilarious

[RifleButt]

it looks fucking awkward...

[LexxTubeV1]

I remember this as being one of my all time fave Word interviews :)

[MahoneyReturns]

THANK YOU LEMAR!

[mikeyboy2810]

hahaha love it!!!

[Booshie321]

mark is sexy!

[GordonMorrice]

Don't you just love the cultures we create for ourselves?

[killertunes77]

COOL!

Check out a reggae/soul singer Mark Lamarr has been supporting on bbc radio 2!

you tube: DAN BOWSKILL

Mark calls the album " more than music "

excelent...

[tehl7]

F$%^&& classic recall from 1994 - Mark Lamar is an absolute hero.

[Merany1]

True nostalgia. This is about as funny as you can get.

[StevenJamesJ]

Superb

[skinheadyellow]

mark lammar you are a nutcase, i remember seeing this when i was out of my tree after a rave and my friends and me wet ourselves laughing for about 2 days

[bullgoosesam]

Cocaine.

[JOYDIVISION111]

i remember mark shitting it when he went in olly reeds dressing room on acess all areas.Olly was like "who are you the fucking bell boy" or something like that

[kbtreturns]

excellent! :D

the primal scream joke is good too :)

[bgrrrlie]

Hammer's mike looks like a dildo...

[kingoproductions]

Possibly the finest moment in the history of television!

[getgus]

Why is that?

[getgus]

What about Randy Ortan?

[DMEB]

ah classic!!!!!!!!!! aint seen this in years!!

[hiimbarryscott]

lol classic thanks for posting this I remember watching it at the time and I've wanted to see Mark Lamarrs dance again ever since.

[monthesheep]

i think hes on coke!!

[OzStriker1983]

CLASSIC! does anyone have the interwiew where

mark lamarr goes medieval on shabba ranks? if so please put it up

[bazbase]

I've got this aswell and am uploading it today!! BTW I also posted all these other Word clips, i've got hundreds of em

[stude]

fucking brilliant, i've been looking for this for ages.

[ironzeppelinoverhead]

i preferd his old look

[purelh]

the funky head hunter album did go platnium

[ACNC1]

This is a complete role reversal from dick cavett days when interviewed sly stone in the 70's.

Where the conservated white host look bemused at the coked up black musician.

Now its the other way round...Hammer is looking at lamarr and thinking what the fcuk.

[zennyboy10]

good interview

[bassbass23]

hahaha! Lamarr's right foot kickin' out when he jumps 00:23! how excited is he?!

[jakamneziak]

where did you get this form? you are da man

[Kagemusha22]

"Primal Scream, playing a single from their new album called......erm "Exile on Mainstreet" I think" Brilliant, Bobby Gillespie really does come across like a Scottish version of Mick Jagger.

[VizardMaskedSoldier]

So bad he changed like that, his style, his songs, but that brought his fall, and lost popularity. It was just the best when he was in the times like: u can't touch this.

[mylestails]

Wonder what song primal scream werre doing? Lamar was well funny when he was doing that dancing shit and hammer got all uncomferatable

[bringmemybow]

Mark's good, but I think he is on coke for this interview... or something that is making him buzz and twitch.

[bthomehub2]

love the trousers :)

[SUBdiversity]

I've always remembered this moment as a classic bit of TV history, cheers for posting.

That Terr"eh" was a proppa twat ! but I always liked Lamar for being a complete pisstaker. I thought he perfected his art on NMTB though.

[kingserj1]

youre a legend for posting this

[Sadie0223]

Thanks for posting this. I've heard about this interview and it was great to see what all the talk was about. I just love Mark Lamarr.

[theworduk]

He's pretty funny old Lamarr. He was great on the Word.

[EB1050482]

@Sadie0223 I am the girl on the right with the long brown hair. Mark was not so funny or great-BUT in this interview he was fine and MC Hammer went mad at him during he intervial. Mark did not diserve it.

[nickcr75]

@EB1050482 Its a real shame this clip misses the funniest part of all later on in the show when he keeps calling him a Christian rapper until he explodes. This was the bit I was specifically looking for!

[Hufftika]

Mark's got a hard one

[MissClareD]

love this interview...god it makes you cringe...lol

[theworduk]

I have always thought Lamarr was a bit too "excited" if you can spot what I mean

[thegirl44]

@theworduk

Maybe it was just the silky feel of the pants?