Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Infobox Album |
Name = Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Type = Album
Artist = MC Hammer


Released = March 13, 1990
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Pop, Hip hop
Length = 59:04
Label = Capitol
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:emr9kemt7q7x link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mchammer/albums/album/214027/rid/5943181/ link]
Last album = "Let's Get It Started"
(1988)
This album = "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em'
(1990)
Next album = "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.

Track listing

#"Here Comes the Hammer"
#"U Can't Touch This"
#"Have You Seen Her" (remake)
#"Yo! Sweetness"
#"Help the Children"
#"On Your Face"
#"Dancin' Machine"
#"Pray"
#"Crime Story"
#"She's Soft and Wet"
#"Black is Black"
#"Let's Go Deeper"
#"Work This"

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