I'm a 51 year old white dude who saw Hammer in concert in 1990 or '91 in Kansas City. I wore Hammer pants and had my hair cut like Vanilla Ice who opened for Hammer along with En Vogue. Thank you, Cliff, for reacting to this! Love it!!
I had completely forgotten the wearing of bike shorts as day wear lmao. I think I repressed it because “spandex is a privilege not a right” - Cereal Killer (Hackers)
Let's not forget that part of what made this song great, catchy and memorable was the awesome bass line, which was sampled from the Rick James song "Super Freak". You should really check out that song, too.
I'm not too proud to admit that I never realized they were the same bass line 'til you pointed it out, despite having loved both songs since I was just a kid. XD
Haha, yup- she was maybe a decade younger than me back then... And I am 63 and have grandbabies from almost 4 to 19 now LOL. But I look better the last 15 years than I did as a stressed out working Mom and wife back then, so there's that 💁💃
@@seaneendelong8065 I’m a young whippersnapper at 50… remember thinking she was the only thing I liked about this video! 😂 Go you for kickin it more now than back then… I am on a similar story arc! 🕺
This hit when i was like 12 or 13 and i blasted it on my boombox all the damn time when me and my friends played basketball. Song gives unlimited energy
Now, picture all those people dancing on stage at the same time! If you can't, you should see the video of him performing on the Arsenio Hall Show. It was insane! 😁
We lived for the arsenio hall show!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 great guests and talent. The one dud interview was with miles Davis, the king of jazz. Arsenio didn’t book other guests because Miles was that special, so when Miles turned out to be an impossible guy to interview, a man of few words, arsenio was faced with a full hour of trying to squeeze conversation out of Miles, the icon. It was SO UNCOMFORTABLE to watch!!!!!!! Excruciating!!!!!! 🎺
The dance is called the typewriter. If you weren’t doing this while the song was on the radio, what were you really doing with your life. 😂😂😂 I used to do the typewriter while yelling “You can’t touch this!” in front of the tv while my brother was playing duck hunt. 🤷🏽♀️
Before cell phones dancing was way more important than it is today, people were less self conscious, at school you wanted to be the one who knew all the moves from the videos
Both MC Hammer's track and Rick James original song 'Super Freak' that the sample came from were dance songs. Back in the late 70s I danced myself breathless to Super Freak many times. Do your self a favor and check out the Rick James original.
As Rick James pointed out at the time, this was more than a sample. MC Hammer had to add Rick James to the songwriting credits and give him a share of the profits.
"I want to know who that is" Currently, assuming she was 18 at the time? A 52 year old woman. At the likely age of late 20s? She is in her early 60s! :) And we all now collectively FEEL OLD because this song is quickly approaching 40.
Those parachute pants and loud colors…late 80’s/ early 90’s style… I rocked the late 80’s/early 90’s permed big hair, Jody Watley hoop earrings, big wide elastic belts with the huge gold buckles and the short crop shirts with leggings or parachute pants… this song brings back some college party memories….
For context, I’m a 48 yr old female. This is awesome!!🙌 I LOVED Run DMC, LL Cool J and the others you mentioned. And you’re right, these song do not have an expiration date, they are timeless! Sorry to deviate off topic (sort of)…… I watched you react to Tom Macdonald & Ben Shapiro, with FACTS recently. THIS IS what they were talking about!!! When I was a kid, hip hop & rap wasn’t about gangs, guns, raunchy sex and strippers & hoes! It used to be great, but still appropriate enough to play in the car with your kids in the backseat. I don’t care if it makes me sound old…. IT WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS!
WAIT…Which parties are you attending?!??!? I feel like this song is played in at least 95% of parties, events, clubs, bars, weddings, baptisms, graduations, any gathering with a dance floor at any time of the night, still to this day!! And everybody, all ages love it! It’s very present in our culture so I was surprised that you haven’t heard it in years! ❤
MC Hammer the real OG one of the most Gangster of rappers in the Industry , you should check out the stories of Hammer backing down rappers who dissed him .
But he really, really sucked at rapping. I don't know anyone that considered him an OG, and I was a teenager when this dropped. He was the corniest of all the rappers and nobody that was into rap had this in their stereo except as a joke.
Alot of people gave him sh!t for being corner but he was more gangster than alot of the other rappers at the time. Look up the stories from real o.g.'s talking about hammer.
My husband and I are white and in our seventies and we loved MC Hammer back in the day. We danced around when he came on MTV and Much Music and our young teens cringed with embarrassment. 😂
**facepalm** The best bit was "I thought he was dancin on his knees." Oh my god. Now that I've seen it that way with your comment, I can't unsee it, and it's amazing. I can't stop laughing. This was huge when I was in middle/high school & while the music was great, I'm glad Hammer Pants aren't a thing anymore. Yikes.
This song was so huge. It appealed to everyone. My 40s year old white overweight accountant dad loved it. When MC Hammer was recording his follow up album, he and his security guards closed off our high school track for a while one day so he could exercise. Our high school was half way between Prince’s Paisley Park (Chanhassen, MN) and the real Graffiti Bridge (Eden Prairie, MN)
Lmfao they WERE called parachute pants, my guy!!! I actually had a pair in 6th grade n would wear them to school n do the hammer dance, aka, the typewriter. It earned me the nickname MC Shorty, all that year!🤣🤣🤣 I also had an entire dance routine to ice ice baby, n will STILL sing that one at karaoke lmfao... still love this old music! It was so fun n clean n wholesome!
Yep dance song indeed im a 64 yr old white girl and this played in EVERY BAR nightly and yes EVERYONE NEW THE DANCE AND WE DID IT ! STILL LOVE THIS SONG AND mc
I'd say check out 2 Legit 2 Quit as well from MC Hammer if you want more of that stage energy.... just be warned, the video is like 12-15 minutes long, as theres a pre-song "show" (with a special guest) similar to how Thriller from Michael Jackson had a pre-song show.
When I was a kid and my mom and stepdad got married. for some reason imprinted in my mind was when everybody was out there playing volleyball at the party afterwards and my stepdad was 6 foot four and it was right when the song came out and I remember they set him for a spike and he said Hammertime and spiked it on them and I thought wow even old people like it lol of course looking back on it I guess he wasn’t that old I was just really young. The song was huge everybody knew it.
The dancing was the key. This was the first full body dance most of us had ever seen, and I imagine it the base from which many iconic styles evolved..
This was definitely my generation. I used to love to dance when I was young (and as an adult I became a belly dancer/burlesque dancer and took classes in hip hop and modern, etc, till I became disabled/chronically ill/mostly bed bound).
🥺🥺🥺🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I hope you can find help or relief somewhere. You look way too young to have those challenges. Just for fun, consider watching gonstead trained Dr Ian in Melbourne, Dr Rahim in Los Angeles. Also Dr Alex Tubio in Houston, Dr cipriano in NC, and the current doctor who does the “ringdinger.” He might be in Houston also.
I grew up in the 80's and 90's. In the 90's I used to jam/dance to M.C. Hammer, Bobby Brown, Kid N' Play, Bel Biv Devo, Another Bad Creation, Kriss Kross, Boyz II Men, Vanilla Ice, MC Shy D, DJ Matrix, DJ Slip, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, and there were so many others. 🔥🔥🔥 Great reaction, BTW!!! 👏👏👏 7:07
People danced in the 80s and part of the 90s - fun! Different world - we still had some humanity left...instead of everything being so fkng miserable and synthetic in our music. Yes dance music in the late 60s, 70s, 80s and part of the 90s.
If you didn't know, the lyric at the beginning of the song: "Super Dope homeboy from the O town" refers to Oakland, California, which is right next to San Francisco. It's always great to hear your own home town called out in a hit song like this.
MC had parachute pants and the TV show In Living Color had women dancing just like in the video and they were called Fly Girls. Jennifer Lopez got her start as a Fly Girl.
There's comparisons of Vanilla Ice & MC Hammer but Vanilla Ice was the first hip hop album reached #1 but MC Hammer went diamond *#1💎Eminem (The Eminem Show)* 12x Platinum *#2💎Eminem (The Marshall Mathers LP)* 11x Platinum *#3💎Notorious B.I.G (Life After Death)* 11x Platinum *#4💎Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below)* 11x Platinum *#5💎Kid Rock (Devil Without A Cause)* 11x Platinum *#6💎Tupac (Greatest Hits)* 10x Platinum *#7💎Tupac (All Eyez on Me)* 10x Platinum *#8💎Beastie Boys (License to Ill)* 10x Platinum *#9💎Eminem (Curtain Call) the Hits* 10x Platinum *#10💎MC Hammer (Please Hammer Don't hurt Em)* 10x Platinum *#11💎Nelly (Country Grammar)* 10x Platinum
MC Hammer's pants, he did this so he could move freely to dance. Regular jeans, dress slacks, he felt like he had limited flexibility. A lot of people hate on MC Hammer. But one of the single greatest rappers in history considered him as a friend. 2Pac. On top of this, a lot of rappers at the time didn't understand where Hammer was coming from. He wasn't controversial, political or a gangsta. MC Hammer never wanted to be that kind of guy. His goal was to be the James Brown of hip-hop. The guy who could put on just an amazing show live, have fun doing his videos and help people where he could. Unfortunately, he stretched himself too thin and caused himself to go bankrupt. He has recovered some of his former financial value, at least as far as I know still does concerts and makes new music. Though, because he hated his 4th album so much (The Funky Headhunter) he refuses to ever do those songs. The way that album came off for him felt like the sell out. Not his first 3. Because he was never that type of artist. (First 3 albums were Let's Get It Started, Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em and 2 Legit 2 Quit). The thing is...MC Hammer was the first rapper to truly go mainstream. To blow up so big that everyone knew who he was. His getting endorsement deals, doing a little acting (his kids cartoon)...he was called a sell out back then, but he opened up the doors for many rappers to get paid in major ways. Ice Cube, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and LL Cool J would never have had careers outside of music if not for MC Hammer breaking that door down first. Yes, Will Smith and Kid n Play helped with it as well. Hammer was the first at it. He honestly deserves better to this day. He deserves to be recognized as the icon of hip hop that he is. He broke doors down in ways nobody before him ever had. As big as Run D.M.C or LL Cool J or The Beastie Boys or Public Enemy or N.W.A. or Salt n Pepa were prior to him, they still hadn't fully broken through yet into the "holy crap, everyone knows who this guy is" territory. Your grandparents knowing who he was. Being nearly as famous at his peak as Michael Jackson. A lot of people in the Bay area of California (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose) are still fearsly loyal to Hammer because of the good he has tried to do in his life. You talk shit about Hammer at your own risk in the Bay area. But he deserves so much better than what he got. My hope is that people who see this reaction will also grow to appreciate Hammer.
Was at work one day (waitressing) when this started to play. Several of us in the back started to do the Hammer Dance in a very limited space, elbows and feet running into each other. It was one of the best moments of that job. Love that song
The best part about this song- play it around a group of little kids ANYWHERE- and they go bonkers! My kids elementary school just had spring block party last week and the DJ played this song and all the kids were doing their craziest moves! It’s a classic for a reason!
I'm 58 years old now & I definitely remember being part of Hammer Time Movement, & I still own this CD & listen to it regularly!!! ❤💯 #ThankYou #McHammer #HammerTime 💯
I ran into him at a Chevron station in Tracy Ca back in 97 or 98. Heard someone singing and I glanced over and thought nooo, he read my mind and said, yeah, it’s me and gave me a big smile. He was great.
