Mistah F.A.B. has let it be known that he’s not happy MC Hammer has seemingly been left out of this year’s Hip Hop 50 celebrations.
On Wednesday (August 23), the Oakland rapper took to Instagram to air out his grievances in regards to some of the Bay Area’s most influential artists not appearing on the lineups for any of the recent shows celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop.
“You know what’s so crazy, man? We sit back and wait for everybody else to celebrate us but we don’t celebrate us, and then we get mad when people don’t celebrate us, then when we celebrate us no one show up to celebrate us,” Fabby began his video address.
“I’m watching this 50th year anniversary, right, and I’m like, ‘How do y’all not have MC Hammer on a bill? How do you not have rap’s first megastar on a bill somewhere, coming out doing at least ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’ or something. You don’t got MC Hammer included in that?'”
Mistah F.A.B. then turned his attention to other Bay Area legends he feels haven’t been shown the love they deserve as Hip Hop celebrates five decades of greatness.
“And then you don’t put [Too] $hort or none of these — E-40s, none of this, you feel me? Humpty Hump. You know what I’m talking ’bout? All of this — c’mon man, this is crazy to me. Souls of Mischief? Like, c’mon bro, we’ve got so many…” he said.
To remedy the oversight, the Cuban Cigars & Rose Champagne rapper is throwing a Bay Area ’90s party on Friday (August 25) to celebrate the contributions of Bay Area rappers in light of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop.
“Listen, this Friday we doing a Bay Area ’90s party, kinda like whole tribute set,” he explained. “If you got a ’90s rapper from the Bay that you wanna hear, tag him right here and I’m damn near gonna try to get him to try and perform this Friday, man, at the Hip Hop Dope Era museum for the 50th year anniversary of Hip Hop. Let’s represent.”
Set to be held at the Dope Era Experience on Washington Street in Oakland, fans can pick up tickets for the event here.
It’s worth noting that Too $hort did appear on the bill for the Hip Hop 50 show at New York’s Yankee Stadium on August 11 (the official 50th anniversary of Hip Hop), which Ebro pointed out in the comments section of Mistah F.A.B.’s post.
Souls Of Mischief also teamed up with The Pharcyde and Tha Alkaholiks for a Hip Hop 50 show of their own on August 13, which saw each group also celebrate the 30th anniversaries of their most iconic albums.
Dubbed a “special performance,” the one-night-only show saw the three groups perform their landmark album in its entirety: 93 ‘Til Infinity (Souls Of Mischief), Bizarre Ride II (The Pharcyde), and 21 & Over (Tha Alkaholiks).
You can’t knock the people that are doing the celebrations. Because the ones I’ve seen have top notch lineup’s to me. What they did at Yankee Stadium was amazing and what LL is doing with the Force tour is amazing. So you can’t knock those that are actually doing it. I do agree Hammer deserves to be celebrated along with Too short and E 40. Their should have been a massive concert on the West Coast, Midwest, South the same way there was one at Yankee Stadium. West could have added Hammer, Too Short, E40, Mack 10, Dre, The Game, Kendrick, Jay Rock, Souls of Mischief, WC, would said Snoop, Cube but they were at the other one. Midwest could have had Em, Kanye, Bone Thugs, Nelly, Common, Twista, Do or Die, Da brat, Dreezy, The South could have had Master P, Hot Boyz, Uncle Luke, Trina, Goodie Mob, Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Paul Wall and a Trae the Truth and Z-Ro reunion???? 8ball and MJG, Scareface and Willie D and bring back Big Mike, Boosie, Mike Jones, Flip Honestly Houston and Atlanta could have had one just for their individual cities. Jeezy. Would have been a massive celebration in different regions. But someone on the west, midwest and south drop the ball.
They should have been included in the Yankees Stadium one or the one at the Grammys, not some regional division B.S.!
You have to understand the people who are putting these shows together are from the east coast. There going to be looking out for there own. This is not the grammyss. And the east had alot of west coast rappers. There not going to have every single west or south rapper because it’s being financed by east coast people. West coast should of done There own 50th aniversary. Like ll cool j had his in queens. Nas had his at yankee. Krs did one in the bronx. This is a independent thing. All of them different rappers. Queen lattifah was at the ll cool j one, she wasn’t at the yankee stadium one.
While I see his point, you can’t have everybody on the lineup as it would be 500 rappers with one verse each. Also, maybe they didn’t include Hammer because they would have had to include Vanilla Ice, who was also big in 1990… and does anyone really want to see that?
Run Dmc was the biggest and was the open to open the doors for all that came after
Yiur right. He was the first megastar. I think alot of people look at him as a pop star. I myself is guilty of this becsuse I didn’t think about him when I was think about the 50 zniversay and all the other rappers. His name name didn’t even come to my mind.
Everyone is going to complaining about the HipHop 50 event. KRS-One put on his own HIP-HOP is 50 show and event. They is nothing preventing the Bay from putting on its own HIP-HOP is 50. Or any region for that matter. Everyone talks about being a boss and having boss money. This is a boos move, but now we see who’s who, and what’s what.
Everyone is going to complaining about the HipHop 50 event. KRS-One put on his own HIP-HOP is 50 show and event. They is nothing preventing the Bay from putting on its own HIP-HOP is 50. Or any region for that matter. Everyone talks about being a boss and having boss money. This is a boos move, but now we see who’s who, and what’s what.
Everyone is going to complaining about the HipHop 50 event. KRS-One put on his own HIP-HOP is 50 show and event. They is nothing preventing the Bay from putting on its own HIP-HOP is 50. Or any region for that matter. Everyone talks about being a boss and having boss money. This is a boos move, but now we see who’s who, and what’s what.
Yes, but what he is saying is the Hammer had huge commercial success, so anyone thinking to put together a celebration should have had him in mind, and he should have been at one of those already done, not just a Bay area one. I think he is upset that people are not even calling Hammer’s name when they discuss hip hop history. And that is fair!
Man, that dude is 100% correct on calling that out he is so right on it
MC HAMMER WAS NEVER HIP HOP!!! HE WAS A POP STAR!!! End of discussion!!!!
MC HAMMER WAS NEVER HIP HOP!!! HE WAS A POP STAR!!! End of discussion!!!!
Oakland should do their own hip hop 50th tribute show.Book Hammer,E 40,Pharcyde,Souls Of Mischeif,Digital Underground,Too Short it’s simple.Gotta do it your own way.Chicago can celebrate 50 years book Kanye,Common,Do or Die,Cheif Keef,Lil Durk,Twista,Da Brat cmon now.Atlanta,Georgia can book their own MC’s not hard