"Pray" was the third single released from MC Hammer's third album, Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em. Produced by MC Hammer himself, the song heavily samples Prince's smash-hit song, "When Doves Cry", the first and one of the few songs legally sanctioned by Prince to incorporate samples of one of his compositions. The track also samples Faith No More's "We Care a Lot". "Pray" became Hammer's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #2 (kept from the top spot by Mariah Carey's "Love Takes Time")

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