ĭuring the late summer 1991, MC Hammer decided to drop the MC from his artistic name to just Hammer. Also, he stated that the album was going to be ready for public consummation by Late 1991 or Early 1992 and anticipated that the project is going to be "more exciting" and "better quality". In an interview on February 1991, Hammer stated that he was working on his follow up album for around six months that was going to be title "Realising Some Pressure". Recording seasons Too Legit to Quit started on August 1990. On the first year been released, Hammer third studio album Please Hammer Don`t Hurt Em (1990) sold 14.5 million copies worldwide.
To promote the album, Hammer and Capitol started a large-scale advertising campaign and embarked world tour on an extensive tour title "Too Legit To Quit World Tour in 1992. The album sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. Also, it has been certified silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry, and triple platinum in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America. It peaked at number two at US Billboard at was certified three-time platinum by the RIAA, while the first two singles of the album ("2 Legit 2 Quit" and "Addams Groove") reached the top 10 at the Billboard Hot 100 and other territories. Too Legit to Quit receive moderate success in comparation of his previous album. The album was support by the official release of the singles: the title track, "Do Not Pass Me By", "This Is the Way We Roll" and "Addams Groove" which received a nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards. Too Legit to Quit received positive reviews with some critics praising for not using samples, the use of live instruments on the recording process and Hammer rap abilities and charisma while others criticized the repetitive lyrics and formulaic structure of the songs. Considered the last album of the trilogy Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990) and Let's Get It Started (1988), it incorporates Hip Hop, pop rap and dance with elements of gospel and R&B with lyrics raging from positivity and love to social conscious. Produced by Hammer and Felton Pilate, the album was released via Capitol Records and EMI Records. from his name), released on October 29, 1991. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Too Legit to Quit is the fourth studio album by American rapper Hammer (after removing M.C. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair.
And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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