Amazing song let’s get this up. Everyone watching like, comment and share it. Let’s piss off the person who reported this video to RU-vid for sexual content lol 😂
Yep. And the Fly Girls were born! Lovely girls, with amazing dance moves that took much more talent that tweaking your behind! Try as I might I just never reached the Fly Girl level, but we had one heck of a good time trying😁
Nah, Hammer was an outlier. He was overtly poppy at a time when that led people to question his legitimacy as a rapper. Now that hip-hop is much more pervasive in culture, it's evident there was room even then for all different approaches to rap, including his, but he was definitely a bit controversial among the hardcore hip-hop fans in the day.
I'm 53 and I remember my friend recorded the video off MTV and we would spend hours playing and rewinding the video learning the dance moves. Finally we got it down and we would dance at parties. We even won a few dance competitions. To this day I still remember the dance moves step by step but after 4 heart attacks and a stroke there is no way in hell I could even attempt to dance like that now.
The 80s we're a freakin blast!!! From breakin to skateboarding to partying our brains out to bustin a move it was a the best of times!! Just say no... That didnt work too well but good try.
MC Hammer was not taken seriously for a very long time, but retrospectively, he has been recognised as one of the main rappers to truly bring rap to the mainstream. It’s almost impossible to overstate how HUGE this song was. It was played everywhere, all the time.
The other rappers were jealous because Hammer’s music was mainstream. Could be listened to by wider audiences. More money for him. He was smart 😂 money 💰. They were too busy thinking tough. Hammer had his own cartoon character and lunchbox at one time. The haters will hate. That was just old fashioned jealousy 😢
Im a 28 year old white dude and its the first rap song i had ever heard with my parents slapping it in the car when i was like 4. I vividly remember it, amd ive beem a hiphop head to this day
The controversy was Rick James accused Hammer of stealing his song and sued him. From my knowledge, the case was settled out-of-court and Rick was given songwriting credit. IMO, it was a sample which was standard in Hip Hop and actually gave original artists some recognition and popularity.
I don’t get what so many rapper heavily sample past songs of other artists and have to pay them for the privilege, when they could have just come up with something original and not have to pay that money to someone else
@@evanhughes1510 That's a part of American (maybe non-American too) music. So much of what you hear that you think is original is not. It's been that way ever since recorded music, at least from the 1920s and up.
True story, back in the early 90s when I was still a college sophomore, I went to a record store to buy some records and I heard this girl who kept arguing with the saleslady about a song she wanted to buy. She kept insisting the song title was Compact Disc and the sales lady kept telling her there was no such song. When the saleslady finally asked her to sing a few bars of the song so she could find out which song the girl was talking about, the girl hummed the chorus riff "tan tan tan tan, tan tan, tan tan" and then yelled "Compact Disc!" instead of "U can't touch this". I nearly choked from trying to keep myself from bursting into laughter and ended up coughing up a lung.
@@BlackSmokeDMax Oh absolutely but then I think the early 1990's they looked different when MC Hammer wore them! I'm just going by my old memory though, because those I went to school with called them parachute pants! Update, I just googled parachute pants right now and indeed there are the ones you mentioned but there was a section below displaying the ones similar to MC Hammer's pants. They labeled those as Hip Hop parachute pants! I was mistaken!
Omg I was 11 when this came out. Everyone wanted to dance like this. Admit it. I have to give props to ALL the dancers including him.. they all killed it!! So many great dancers!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The best story i have regarding this song is that my mother got a speeding ticket because she was jamming out to this and we will never let her live it down.
😃 “Did we all dance to this”...EVERYONE, like, EVERYONNNNNNNE danced to this, sang it, talked about it, referenced it ALL THE LIVE LONG DAY. This was the most recognizable song - all over the world. He was like the GD Beatles. He was bigger than Cardi’s okuuuur, dude. 😉Everybody. All the talk shows, radio shows, mtv, Rolling Stone...everyone. It was Hammertime, all the time. And it was the best. I was in HS when it came out (bite me, I’m old🙂) and also a dance teacher and that move was THE MOVE. It’s called the running man and he invented it. And the pants are hammer pants. Of course. Check out Too Legit To Quit next. Lol
My daughter who was born in 1981 and is now 40, LOVED this song so much when she was a kid. She'd wear modified hammer pants and slide back and forth across the kitchen while I was cooking dinner, singing this when she was about 10...Good memories!
This is considered one of the most iconic songs in the history of both hip-hop and dance music. Hammer himself is considered one of the most skilled dancer and on-stage performers in music history, as well.
Way back in the day they were called harem pants, then they were called parachute pants. Then MC Hammer came out and then they were called MC Hammer or Hammer pants. It was definitely a look and vibe back then, good times and good memories!
@@DawnSuttonfabfour No, harem pants are dropped crotch, wide at the calf, and fitted at the ankle. Hammer pants are low crotch (not as low), wide at the thigh, and fitted at the ankle.
Back in the day EVERYONE danced to this song at EVERY event: every party, school dance, wedding, halftime. And it got *everyone* dancing together: every age, every race, kids, mom, dad, grandma, the baby in the stroller, students, teachers, everybody!
Ha ha , dawn so funny , I had a pair aswell , we called them parachute pants , I also had a banana yellow shirt and a yellow and white jacket , I'm sure I looked a treat 🤭 , I'm from Australia
Oh Jayvee！ I laughed so hard all through your reaction！ And yes, I wore those pants！ The 80's in the UK was a party decade. If you had a job, going out dancing all night was the best way to end the week. Your reaction made me realise how much happier music made me feel. Keep dancing dude, I'm subscribed 🙏
When this song came out I was 24 and my son was eight months old. Every single time this song came on the radio or on MTV/VH1,My son would stop whatever he was doing and start dancing. We videoed it and still get a kick out of it to this day he is now 31. Now he’s playing the video for his own one-year-old daughter. It is a classic
I grew up with this song. Came out when I was 4 years old. And those pants are Parachute Pants. Used to own a pair and me and some friends memorized the dance.
The pants are called Hammer Pants. They started as harem pants, but he said they were too tight to dance in so he had his wife customize them. (saw the documentary on him) And you recognize the hook because it's been used in everything from tv shows to commercials.
Okay I am glad I wasn't the only one who called them/still calls them Hammer Pants. I knew they had another official name but I did not know what it was.
This is one of the most high energy dance songs in the world, with the catchiest hook. It's a one-of-a-kind classic. And I never saw those pants on the street, but they looked great with that fast, fast dancing.
Yes, I hope proper credit is due to Rick James here. Yes, Hammer could dance his butt off, and the genie pants were cool and all that... but this was one of the first instances of the sampled groove contributing more to the success of the tune than any other factor. Those not old enough to be able to spot the (IMO) plagarism need to be LET KNOW!!
And yes, even us women wore them hahaha ;), at school dances when this came on a ton of us would get up and do the hammer hahaha! Now we all werent good but had a hell of a time and the guys loved wearing the shiny black shoes with it too!!!
Cool how he got the nickname "Hammer." Growing up, he was a batboy for the Oakland A's and Reggie Jackson noticed his resemblance to Hammerin' Hank Aaron. Our local newspaper printed a great photo of the two next to each other when MC was a kid and Aaron was playing for the Milwaukee Brewers (easy to find in Google Images).
sorry but Parachute pants were 80s and they were fitted nylon with several zipper pockets. MC Hammer wore harem pants or aka Hammer pants. Us breakdancers wore parachute pants in the 80s so the nylon would protect our skin when we touch the ground.
@@bahice Yeah. Harem pants for men. I remember at some point they became popular with guys who went to the gym. I just looked at some pictures. I don’t think I ever owned any, but the looser ones look really comfortable.
These were known an “Hammer Pants”! He had them made so he could freely dance without restrictions! They became an instant must have style for weight lifters, jocks and street dancers! 😂
I remember when MC Hammer was big, he challenged Michael Jackson a dance contest. Of course MJ didn't acknowledge or accept, because MCH was a flash in the pan, MJ is ... the king of pop.
FUN FACT: "You Can't Touch This" won Best R&B Song and a Best Rap Solo Performance, and was the first rap song to be nominated for Record of the Year at the 1991 Grammy Awards. It also won Best Rap Video and Best Dance Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.
