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Social media has drastically changed how beefs between rappers are handled. You see artists throwing shots at counterparts on Twitter and Instagram, then before you know it, everything mysteriously gets squashed behind the scenes.
Things were much different in the 90's when Redman got into the business. As he explains in a new interview with DJ Vlad, when a rapper heard he was dissed back then he/she and their crew would show up at a rival's concert and things would often get physical.
Oakland rapper MC Hammer was known at the time for making party records and dancing, but according to Red, he was one guy you didn't wan't any problems with.
"Look, that got damn MC Hammer ... very serious about beef," Red told Vlad. "Y'all motherfuckers laugh and y'all joke about Hammer. No, No, No No! That nigga was deep with niggas. And he used to what anybody who talked shit. Come to the Bay Area, they was in for it. 'Cause we seen it. I seen it. He was very serious about beef. 'Oh, you gon' talk about my dancing pants? I'll see you.' And he would whip a nigga out."
Red recalled Hammer personally stepping to him at the taping of the last Yo! MTV Raps episode over dissing his mom on his debut project, "Whut? Thee Album."
"That nigga came up to me [at the taping]. He was like, 'Red, I'ma tell you something, you young. But I don't allow nobody to talk about my mama, you understand me?' I said 'Yes sir.' Because we was already in Oakland [prior] with EPMD. And we damn near had to bounce up outta there for that. 'Cause they had niggas [gesturing in different directions] back here, back here, back here. We had to get the fuck up outta here. They wasn't playing. We was almost boxed in. I'm like, 'Yo, this nigga is not playing"
Peep the full interview below.
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