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Questlove
has
expressed
that
he
felt
“hurt”
by
MC
Hammer’s
unwillingness
to
take
part
in
the
Grammy
Awards’
recent
tribute
to
Hip-Hop.
As
A
GRAMMY
Salute
to
50
Years
of
Hip-Hop
aired
Sunday
(Dec.
10),
Ahmir
“Questlove”
Thompson
of
The
Roots
fielded
questions
about
the
star-studded
event
on
X,
the
social
media
platform
formerly
known
as
Twitter.
One
fan
asked
the
drummer
if
there
were
any
artists
that
he
wanted
in
the
show
that
couldn’t
make
it.
Questlove
promptly
responded:
“Of
all
the
‘No’s’….Hammer
hurt
the
most.
We
really
wanted
him
to
have
his
flowers.”
At
the
moment,
MC
Hammer
hasn’t
publicly
responded
to
Questlove’s
comment.
The
iconic
artist
has
not
been
a
fixture
at
any
of
the
events
celebrating
Hip-Hop’s
50th
anniversary
this
year.
But
he
did
speak
on
his
absence
in
early
November
as
he
addressed
the
crowd
at
the
street
naming
ceremony
for
the
late
Tupac
Shakur
in
his
hometown
of
Oakland,
California.
“You
ain’t
hear
me
go
to
none
of
these
Hip-Hop
50
—
and
just
for
the
record,
I
got
invited
to
every
one,”
he
began.
“But
I
really
don’t
have
the
patience
for
the
fakeness.
I’m
really
60
years
old.
I
can’t
get
with
the
fakeness
of
it
all.
I
could
do
it
with
a
young
cat,
but
I
can’t
go
around
old
cats
and
still
be
pretending.”
Hammer
even
cracked
a
joke
posing
a
scenario
where
he’d
encounter
one
of
these
veterans:
“What
you
want
me
to
call
you?
Six
Shooter?
Come
on,
man.
Ain’t
none
of
your
bodies
turned
up
yet!
I
just
can’t
do
it…but
Pac
got
me
out
here
today.
My
first
Hip-Hop
50
event
that
I
said
yeah
to,
and
the
only
one
is
to
come
and
say
how
much
I
love
Pac.”
It’s
not
the
first
time
the
“Can’t
Touch
This”
rapper’s
absence
from
many
of
the
celebrations
of
Hip-Hop’s
50th
anniversary
has
been
publicly
noted.
Mistah
F.A.B.,
another
veteran
rapper
from
Oakland,
publicly
said
that
he
would’ve
loved
to
see
MC
Hammer
alongside
so
many
of
the
culture’s
greats
at
the
HipHop50
Live
concert
event
held
at
Yankee
Stadium.
Hammer
would
later
issue
a
statement
saying
that
he
had
been
asked,
but
he
refused.
