The Rise and Fall of Hip Hop Stars MC Hammer and DMX

class="googleright">reason why they are in the business. Perhaps it was a
The increasing desire for fame and fortune are drivingfacade from the start, but we will give them the
many of today’s young aspiring hip hop artists.benefit of the doubt.
Innocent and pure at first, many hip hop artists claimThis article will provide a quick run down of the rise
that they do it for the love of the music and not forand fall of two of the best know hip hop rap artist in
the fame and money. However, only a handful of themtheir time; MC Hammer in the late 1980s to the early
actually pull off this simple task. As one’s1990s and DMX from the late 1990s to the early
fame and fortune rise, these superstars become2000s. As the saying goes, “what goes up,
distracted from their “roots,” the realmust come down.