Metalsucks — Includes Public Enemy, MC Hammer, 2 Live Crew, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and more. The post Video: Killswitch Engage Watch ’90s Hip Hop Videos appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Consequence of Sound — MC Hammer leads a summer US trek with assistance from Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sisqo, En Vogue, Coolio, and more. more info

TMZ — MC Hammer had a special treat for the 50th birthday of Oakland's one-time "crack king" -- a performance that pumped up the party, and proved Hammer's moves are still fire. The legendary rapper dropped in for the Bay Area gig last to… more info

Stereogum — Beastie Boys Book, the long-awaited memoir from surviving Beastie Boys members Mike D and Ad-Rock, aka Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz, is out on October 30. Vulture today published an excerpt that details the recording and release of the group’s... more info

Guardian Music — In this excerpt from his essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib traces the interplay of privilege and guilt through the careers of hip-hop’s great white hopes, and wonders whatever happened to Bubba Spa... more info

Stereogum — Beck's new album Colors finally comes out on Friday, and although we don't exactly love it, MC Hammer apparently does. Presumably that's why Newbury Comics is selling CD copies of the album that come with a booklet signed by the rapper. "Colors is ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Turns out you can touch this. As he strode through the Hollywood & Highland complex on Wednesday afternoon, MC Hammer was approached by a group of young men who looked surprised to have crossed paths with the flamboyant rapper famous for his 1990 sma... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Turns out you can touch this. As he strode through the Hollywood & Highland complex on Wednesday afternoon, MC Hammer was approached by a group of young men who looked surprised to have crossed paths with the flamboyant rapper famous for his 1990 sma... more info

AllHipHop — MC HAMMER DEFENDS TUPAC MOVIE! more info

Stereogum — "Rap is not pop/ If you call it that, then stop." When Q-Tip spoke those words on "Check The Rhime," the most enduring single from A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 opus The Low End Theory, he had aesthetics in mind, not numbers. Tip was dismissing MC Hamm... more info