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Killowem Gael Nobles. Today's topic is
mc hammer crave EMC Hammer believed in feeding

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people positive things through his music to
help souls. He once said in an

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interview with Revolt that he grew up
in a very negative and violent environment.

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He viewed music as a way to
escape. He did not need to take

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his music and create the same tension
that was already happening around the house and

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in the street. So when he
created songs, he wanted it to be

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a way to escape to places you
never been, to see things in your

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mind like pictures, positivity, romance, and love and things that inspire you

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to do more. He wanted that
in his music and to take you away

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from the negative things I knew.
I always liked Hammer and his music for

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some reason. I thought the world
of him. When he made the rap

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song Pray, it was the truth. We got to pray just to make

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it today. It was a song
released in August nineteen ninety and even then

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there were negative things like violence going
on. Hammer was encouraging people and telling

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the world how he worked hard to
make it and on his knees every night

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to pray. Nothing happened until he
prayed. Thank you, mister m c

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hammer, for helping us to see
something positive in your music. Thank you

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for encouraging us to keep on moving
forward. Pray became mc hammer's biggest hit

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on the US Billboard Hot one hundred, where it peaked at number two.

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The track also became a top forty
hit in multiple countries. The song was

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certified gold in the US on November
twenty sixth, nineteen ninety