Let's Get It Started is the second album released by pop emcee MC Hammer, whose given name is Stanley Kirk Burrell. The album went double platinum with "Pump It Up", "Let's Get It Started", "Turn This Mutha Out" and "They Put Me in the Mix" as the most popular tracks from this album. It topped the R&B charts and peaked at #30 on the Billboard 200.

Too Legit To Quit is Hammer's third album, released on October 29, 1991. While the album wasn't as successful as Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em , it nevertheless proved successful, peaking in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200, as well as going triple platinum. A video for the title song was also produced, featuring many celebrity appearances. It was ranked one of the most expensive videos. At the end of the "Too Legit to Quit" music video, after James Brown enlists Hammer to obtain the glove of Michael Jackson, a silver-white sequined glove is shown on the hand of a Jackson look-a-like doing the "2 Legit 2 Quit" hand gesture. It was a reference to Hammer wanting to challenge Jackson to a dance-off for rights to the famous glove, which is also referenced on the album.

The Funky Headhunter was the fourth album made by MC Hammer, then known as Hammer, in 1994. The album at the time was hailed as MC Hammer's comeback album and was produced by innovative musicians and writers such as Teddy Riley (who had previously produced records for Guy, Blackstreet, and Michael Jackson), The Hines Brothers, and G-Bomb. It also featured Death Row Records head Suge Knight, Whole 9 and Death Row recording artists Tha Dogg Pound. Hammer debuted the album two months before its release on The Arsenio Hall Show and finally released it in March.