It's Twitter war: MC Hammer raps Jay-Z over song putdown

MC Hammer is opening fire on Jay-Z, attacking the biggest rapper in the world for a perceived insult in his new song. The U Can't Touch This hitmaker, famous for his squandered fortune, said he would answer "hellboy"'s slight with a new song on 31 October, Devil's Night. Jay-Z probably didn't even realise MC Hammer was listening. "Hammer went broke so you know I'm all focused," he raps on So Appalled , Kanye West's newest free Good Friday track. "I lost 30 mill so I spent another 30 / cos unlike Hammer / 30 million can't hurt me." This is typical Jay-Z, a run-of-the-mill boast, the bragging of a multi-millionaire who just sat down with Warren Buffett for Forbes magazine . But MC Hammer, who became a preacher after losing his rap fortune, wasn't tickled by the putdown. Although he's no longer a champ MC, he's still a star on Twitter – as an early adopter, he has almost eight times as many followers as Jay-Z, and more than even Kanye West. "The answer to Jay comes on Oct 31," he explained. "I saw him coming." He didn't stop there. "You wanted my attention #HellBoy (Jigga), you got it," MC Hammer wrote on Saturday. "Let me mess you up." As fans of Jay-Z began to pile on the aggrieved rapper, Hammer told them, essentially: you can't touch this. "Laughing at these grown men coming on my timeline with they pom-poms waving for #HellBoy ... These lil demons and imps stopping by [my] timeline today – Yes, I dissed yo daddy." MC Hammer even posted a video of himself showing a punching bag what for, telling Jay-Z: "Stans high up." Yet before Jay-Z had even found time to respond, Hammer was already backing off. "No need for such nastiness," he wrote finally, while still promising a Halloween comeback. "I'm going back to the baggy pants that keeps you off guard."