Let's Get It Started (album)

Let's Get It Started
Studio album by
M.C. Hammer
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1988 (1988-09-28)
Genre
Length42:33
Label
ProducerM.C. Hammer, Felton Pilate
M.C. Hammer chronology
Feel My Power
(1986) 		Let's Get It Started
(1988) 		Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
(1990)
Singles from Let's Get It Started
  1. "Let's Get It Started"
    Released: 1988
  2. "Pump It Up"
    Released: 1988
  3. "Turn This Mutha Out"
    Released: 1989
  4. "They Put Me In The Mix"
    Released: 1989
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauC+[3]
RapReviews3/10[2]
Record Mirror5/10[4]

Let's Get It Started is the second studio album, and first major-label debut, by American rapper MC Hammer. It was released via Capitol Records and EMI Records on September 28, 1988. The album was produced by Hammer and Felton Pilate.[5]

Recorded between 1987 and 1988, Let's Get It Started received mixed to negative reviews upon its release, but has since gone on to be praised as a hip-hop classic. The album was supported by the released of four official singles: "Pump It Up", "Let's Get It Started", "Turn This Mutha Out" and "They Put Me in the Mix" which all charted. Music videos were also produced for all of these songs. Also, it won two American Music Awards for Let's Get It Started: Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album. It was also nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Album.

Let's Get It Started peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 went double platinum by RIAA for selling over two million of copies. It was No. 1 on the Top R&B chart in the U.S. The album produced several Top 5 hits.[6] "Turn This Mutha Out" peaked the highest at No. 3 on the US Rap charts, and also cracked the Top 15 at No. 12 on both the Dance and R&B charts. However, none of the singles made much of a dent in the pop charts.[7]

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ RapReviews review
  3. ^ Robert Christgau review
  4. ^ Finney, James (30 March 1991). "Round Up". Record Mirror. p. 14.
  5. ^ "Felton C. Pilate II - Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  6. ^ "U Can't Touch This at 25: Remembering MC Hammer's Breakthrough Single". Billboard. January 13, 2015.
  7. ^ "MC Hammer - Let's Get It Started Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2022.