You can't touch this - would you even want to?

Ah, the 80’s. It seems hard to believe now that we could have listened to such junk. Oh wait…

Please Hammer Don’t hurt ‘em might seem a preposterously pretentious and self-important title for an album… and it was. MC Hammer typified the cult of the self-centered egomaniac rapper, Yo, you can’t touch this, before becoming a preacher and using his star status to spread the good word. Yo, you’ve got to pray to make it today.

MC Hanmmer, the clean-cut rapper made $33 million from Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘em but ended up $13 million in debt and had to file for bankruptcy in 1996. How is that possible? Well, he had a taste for spending, such as when he spent $2 million on Italian marble floors for his house.

MC Hammer’s Twitter feed is as you might expect, full of exclamation marks and profound philosophical insights.

Last Tweets

Twitted on 10 September 2010, 4:15 pm
MCHammer: @KO15BBG keep goin' ... we wit you.
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 4:02 pm
MCHammer: RT @flipfashion: NYLONMAG.COM - FASHION: FIRST LOOK: RACHEL COMEY http://bit.ly/dvLhff
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 3:57 pm
MCHammer: RT @gamespot: NEWS: Grand Theft Auto trilogy coming to Macs 'most likely this year' http://gamespot.com/6275579
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 10:36 am
MCHammer: He Did It Again!!! Woke Us Up !!! Were Still Here !!! #Thank #God for Another Day !!!
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 12:12 am
MCHammer: RT @fastcompany: Now @MTV Bumps @Vevo as Top Online Music Destination, Igniting a Web Video Flame War http://bit.ly/btPPri
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 12:07 am
MCHammer: RT @Mak_pk: Start Running & Watch Your Brain Grow (Guardian) http://bit.ly/5DRTkH #Fitness RT @Flipbooks
Twitted on 9 September 2010, 11:57 pm
MCHammer: @40GLOCC DM... it's On
Twitted on 9 September 2010, 7:46 pm
MCHammer: Rappers have to start standing on what THEY can DO.. Not the HOMIES.. Using they Folks 4 shields.. Unmasking Actors.. #KingofHeart
Twitted on 9 September 2010, 5:41 am
MCHammer: RT @FindAndrewT: @MCHammer you RT'd a message about this missing child for us a while back. After nearly 3 years he has been found! Than ...
Twitted on 9 September 2010, 5:41 am
MCHammer: @FindAndrewT Amen !!!!! Glad ton help.

Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg) is, believe it or not, named after Snoopy, a nickname his mother gave him and which he found to be cooler than the Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. on his birth certificate.

Why is so much of rap, especially the kind that Snoop Dogg records, so violent, msyogynistic and in praise of anything gangsta – ‘Yo, we is gangstas, we likes to shoot niggers and make bitches our sex slaves!’ ‘

Or in other words, ‘we’re too dumb an unimaginative to do anything better with our lives then wave guns around and we’re afraid of women so we have to put them down to feel better about ourselves.’

At least Snoop actually knew what he was talking about when it came to drug dealing, jail time and guns, unlike some of the rappers who only played the image to make money.

Snoop Dogg’s Twitter feed is pretty unintelligible.

Last Tweets

Twitted on 10 September 2010, 7:05 pm
SnoopDogg: Follow my neffew @TheReal_Lendale - nudoknowthatubitchu.....
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 5:33 pm
SnoopDogg: RT @georgelopez: Monday night - @SnoopDogg on the show! Have a question for him? Go here to ask it: http://su.pr/2LRSwR #SnoopOnLopez
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 5:21 pm
SnoopDogg: who know my guy!! http://bit.ly/cRophj
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 5:07 pm
SnoopDogg: ayp @rockband finally put the boss dogg on, checc out my Snoop Dogg DLC track and get gangsta on the mic http://bit.ly/9UzQFI
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 4:49 pm
SnoopDogg: Oowee @katyperry didnt kno @wonderwallmsn had cameras when we was plannin Califonia Gurlz they gott it http://on.msn.com/a1fQWJ
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 1:00 pm
SnoopDogg: she ain't from california but damn she fine kickin ass in @ResidentEvil RT @millajovovich & show her luv this wknd http://bit.ly/doVXdz (Ad)
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 12:54 pm
SnoopDogg: public service announcement!! http://bit.ly/bGstUZ
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 2:42 am
SnoopDogg: And if you didn't know I am on this game also. And u do know that! http://twitvid.com/NKQPK
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 1:37 am
SnoopDogg: Had 2 run wit the big 3 against @therealbanner cuz he keep playin with mj. I need bron 2 go 2 the rack!!! http://twitpic.com/2mxski
Twitted on 10 September 2010, 1:24 am
SnoopDogg: 90-91 Lakers vs 91-92 Bulls. Nba 2k11. Me vs @therealbanner. Who u think I got? http://twitpic.com/2mxpvi