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- <text id=90TT1948>
- <title>
- July 23, 1990: Heavy Hitter
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 23, 1990 The Palestinians
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 65
- Heavy Hitter
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Summer can't get much hotter for M.C. Hammer. Moving off
- record-store shelves at the rate of more than 100,000 a day,
- his album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is about to become rap's
- all-time best seller. Unlike rap groups that do songs for
- "shock value," he says, "I'm selling entertainment that
- contains the message of positivity and concern for kids." Once
- a bat boy for his hometown Oakland A's, Hammer, 27, is in
- music's big leagues and batting 1.000.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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