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 5 February 2012, 10:29 am
MCHammer: @gatorboy Wheres your compassion ? Mourn with them who Mourn.... If you have all these gifts and have not Love, it profits you Nothing.
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 9:50 am
MCHammer: He Did it Again !!! Woke Us Up !!! We're Still Here !!! Thank #God for Another Day !!! Have A #Great One !!! #SuperBowl !!!
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 9:30 am
MCHammer: 'Soul Train' fans dance at NYC Cornelius fete http://t.co/0DijHhIC
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 5:15 am
MCHammer: RT @Ste7en_Marshall: Read my #UFC143 review of last night http://t.co/CmSSTHe8 @danawhite @bjpenndotcom @ufc @bisping @MCHammer @MmaFigh ...
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 4:54 am
MCHammer: #UFC143 ... Post Fight http://t.co/JJClKZnL
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 4:02 am
MCHammer: @danieljpowley listen close .. analyze each verse .. And you describe the challenges, pain, struggles and tweet it. http://t.co/F0TWHmq1
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 4:00 am
MCHammer: @danieljpowley and added more to the mission.
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 3:59 am
MCHammer: We All Seek Peace ... http://t.co/F0TWHmq1 Why Are we .. ??? #living2Die http://t.co/9AjVKzWb
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 3:42 am
MCHammer: I'm in Vegas with a deuce in the Air : (RIP 2PAC) http://t.co/RvW6bk1h #salute http://t.co/dO61FNZW
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 3:38 am
MCHammer: @Suavizzle Pac wrote this for me. I'm in Vegas right now. Miss my homie. RIP #2PAC #salute http://t.co/RvW6bk1h

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 5 February 2012, 12:09 pm
SnoopDogg: eli n peyton hope my sons growup to b half as great as the manning brothers!!
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 12:09 pm
SnoopDogg: u made winning a tradition n I commend u for that great player n a great guy. Archie u got 2 b a proud pappa
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 12:08 pm
SnoopDogg: Get well soon peyton n wherever u end up playn I'm rockn ya jersey outta respect for wat u did for the nfl and the indy colts
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 12:08 pm
SnoopDogg: Snoop and peyton manning after snoop wins mvp! From one mvp to another real player shitt! http://t.co/BY9IeICL
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 11:51 am
SnoopDogg: enter tha #snoopanddre coachella contest - remake tha flicc of us wit tha chevy n im piccn a winner http://t.co/uFdJE3UD
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 11:21 am
SnoopDogg: some pics of what happened to me aftr winnin #MVP at tha @directtv celeb game http://t.co/d6k09X5z
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 11:18 am
SnoopDogg: Everybody wish a Happy C Day to tha Double R @redeaux !! Go head N follow him u might learn a lil something
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 11:09 am
SnoopDogg: at tha @directtv celeb game wit @mariamenounos http://t.co/rQPfOYr5
Twitted on 5 February 2012, 1:52 am
SnoopDogg: Won MVP at that @directtv celeb game. Sup @mariamenounos http://t.co/jHMEhIla
Twitted on 4 February 2012, 11:59 pm
SnoopDogg: RT @ExecBranch: We made our national television debut on Late Night with @JimmyFallon! http://t.co/O4yUKlsz