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And Finally
Hammer declares victory in Jay-Z beef
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 10 November 2010
MC Hammer has been talking to AllHipHop.com about his previously reported one-sided beef with Jay-Z.
As previously reported, Hammer recently posted a Jay-Z dissing rap online, the video of which sees a lookalike of the Roc Nation chief being chased through some woods by the devil. Throughout Hammer seemingly addresses the hip hop mogul, threatening to “knock him out”. But when the Jay-Z character actually stumbles across Hammer by a lake, he fends off Satan and then baptises his hip hop rival.
The diss seemed to have been motivated by a recent Jay-Z rap on a Kanye West track which referenced Hammer’s well documented mid-90s bankruptcy. But now Hammer says that his beef really relates to Mr Z’s past mocking of Christianity in his lyrics and videos. In the interview, Hammer, an ordained minister, singles out Jay-Z tracks ‘On To The Next One’ and ‘Empire State Of Mind’ as being particularly offensive to his beliefs.
Addressing Jay, Hammer told AllHipHop.com: “In the last five/six years – however many it has been – you have taken the position that my faith is a joke. That my faith is something that you can use in videos, and something that you just wanna dress the walls up with. Run a quick photo by it of Jesus with bullet holes on the side of it. So, since you are constantly bashing my faith, let’s bring it on. You opened up the door by saying my name [in the Kanye West track], so let’s get it all out there”.
As previously reported, Jay-Z refused to be drawn into a beef with Hammer, telling BBC 1Xtra he wasn’t aware the 90s rapper’s financial woes were “off limits”. He added that he had lots of respect for Hammer and that he says so a number of times in his upcoming new book.
But nevertheless, Hammer reckons he’s won his beef. He rambles on: “I am declaring victory, because it [the diss video], showed a whole lot of people who were not aware that that [Jay’s dissing of Hammer’s faith] is how you are getting down. If you are a hip hop head and you are into his music, you already knew this. It’s nothing to you. But there’s a whole lot of people who had no idea. Since you are getting down like this and it’s funny to you, let’s put it on the table”.
So, that’s, erm, that cleared up.
