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 UA-cam for sexual content lol 😂
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.
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.
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
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 😢
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!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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!
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
@@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.
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!
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
This was one of those songs that just broke through all barriers and was loved by EVERYBODY. I'm not even sure what I would compare it to. The same kind of power as something like Gagnam Style where it just blew up and got played by everybody at every party, every event, but whereas that song was more like a temporary meme, this song just stayed hot and never quit. This song got so hot that they even gave MC Hammer his own saturday morning cartoon show for kids (it didn't last long so nobody remembers, but that happened!). Those pants were Hammer's signature style, like Kris Kross's backwards pants or MJ's white glove. That was just his thing, but you know there were people wearing that! Just like people did the MJ white glove and everything! Some people definitely did that. I just remember everyone calling them "hammer pants" or "parachute pants". They added some extra flourish to his dancing.
While Hammer was immensely popular at the time his fame and relevance had a significant decline by the end of 1991. By '92, rappers like Kriss Kross and Sir Mixalot were topping the charts, and at that point, Hammer was seen as lame, and "U Can't Touch This" became nothing more than a distant memory.
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.
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
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!!
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).
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! 😂
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!!!
Looks like it's been awhile since somebody commented on this video, let me tell you when I used to hit the night clubs back in the 80's & 90's in my younger buffed days, were I come from on the east coast those pants were called "parachute pants" I never wore them but you would see guys wearing them,were never my cup of tea but people enjoyed them back in the day as you younger guys would say good job on the video's keep up the good work.
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.
4:41 Iconic. Hammer was known for his moves in a time period when Michael Jackson was at the height of his stardom. That should tell you something. He was an enormous celebrity and the first major rap star who crossed over to all audiences. I remember the kids at my school were crazy for this song. One day our PE teacher put it on during our warm up and was shocked at how our class just came alive. People loved to get funky and just let it all out to this song. Where MJ was super smooth and refined, Hammer was funky and jerky enough that everybody felt comfortable dancing to this because he was clearly about the hype and energy and less about the refined grace (he was a great dancer/choreographer though). He had some other major hits during this time period. 2 Legit 2 Quit comes to mind. He sort of became so big that he was everywhere and people burned out on him, and by the time gangsta rap exploded onto the scene, Hammer seemed too wholesome and outdated by comparison. He tried to adapt to the times, releasing a more "gangsta rap" type sound, but audiences had moved on. He was massive though and a big part of why rap crossed over into the mainstream. You can even find clips of him performing at award shows and audiences get into it, especially when he does the "hammer dance" at 4:41. In the same way Michael Jordan's silhouette is synonymous with him, or the moonwalk with Michael Jackson, the Hammer dance and Hammer pants are recognizable as part of Hammer's brand.
In the early 80s girls wore pants like that called harem pants. They're basically salwar, worn by men and women in Northern India and Pakistan under long shirts called kameez.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam for sexual content lol 😂
I wonder if this person was upset that they couldn't touch this?
@@gness4782 probably. It might even be the same one who downvoted it lol it’s always one.
Are you serious??!! 😤🙄 Absolutely ridiculous trouble makers!!
Ridiculous! Another ignorant soul. We all know there is no truth to that allegation at all! Man some people's children.
@Diana Gero In all fairness, he wasn't a preacher back then. LOL
In my area we just called them Hammer Pants and I wore em and I stand by that decision!
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You were a brave man!!!!
That's the best thing I've heard all day! 😊
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm 54 and this is how we got down in the 80's. The 80's was the best time ever.
100% agree!
The 90s also !
And the 70's I grew up in them lol
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.
1990s-2000s when Rappers actually had dance moves
Not just girls twerking
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.
Hammer was the only dancing rapper outside of Salt N Pepa and maybe Kris Kross if you count them.
That's right Mike Hawk - And MC was the best.
80s-early 90s. Hardly after gangster rap arrived.
This song crossed all boundries, race, skin colour, creed... it unified everyone and had the dance floors packed to the rafters. Good times.
Yeah, this song even got Osama to dance
Something wrong if you're still sitting still! Cannot not move when this is on! Love the backup dancers, really great.
Your right cos you can't touch this 😂👍❤️
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
Music crosses boundaries.
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.
Hammer time is hip hop
Pumps and a bump is rap
And it’s still played everywhere!! And Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby!!
MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice both...
MC Hammer was taken seriously before he went mainstream!
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 😢
Jayvee says "You know what time it is". We all say "Hammer Time!".
Yes, we sure did!
I'm of a certain age when whenever anyone says "what time is it? everyone replies IT'S HAMMER TIME!
This should have all the likes.😂🤙
You're absolutely right, Wayne Joy!! "Can't stop!" - "Hammer Time!! YES!! Love this comment! What time is it? Hammer Time!
Though, if someone asks, "What's the time?" - you know the answer is "IT'S TIME TO GET ILL!"
This rap song is based on the song by Rick James ""Superfreak" from 1981.
He sampled the music from Rick James super freak.
@@kennethgodwin7769 fun fact: Rick James Hates U Can’t Touch This
@@Luxito_DeWarlock funner fact: Rick James hated this track. He can no longer hate the track, as he's been dead for years.
@@control_the_pet_population still alive in the heart of his fans
@@Luxito_DeWarlock cocaine is a helluva drug
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!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Yes we all got our pants and tried hard to copy them moves
I was 11 too was the B side please hammer don hurt em or was it thats why we Pray Pray ??
The chicks in this video are smoking hot. I will always have a special place in my heart for 90s fashions/styles. Especially women's.
Oh yeah! Me and two of my daughters dancing with this every time it was on MTV! Great memories! 💗💃
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.
Hell naw 🤣🤣🤣
No way 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
OMG! LOLOLOL!!!
WTF? She must have heard it like 1 time 😂
Too funny!
Saw him in concert in the 90's....they danced the entire time!!! It was awesome!!! Loved your reaction!!
Those are Hammer pants. He made them a thing. A HUGE thing. 😁
FACTS!
LOL! I know it's those pants! I believe they were called parachute pants he made popular in the early 1990's I think.
@@janethernandez724 parachute pants were slightly tighter nylon that were huge about 10 years (maybe even more??) before this video.
@@BlackSmokeDMax Hammer pants: ugly as shit but comfy.
@@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!
Dance? That song is so hype it STILL gets grandmas on the dance floor... even great-grandma is chair dancing...
🤣🤣🤣 Pictured it straight away!! 🐨🐨
Yeah I'm 50 and yeah it's hammer time. You can't touch this
I've got bad knees and hips and it makes me wanna dance 🕺lol
69 yrs old and doin' a mean desk chair boogey!!!
Mc Hammet sampled this tune directly from Rick James’ 1981 song ‘SuperFreak’. Do a reaction to that song!
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
Rick James and Neil Young were once in the same band back in Canada!!
This is sooo fun! Loved the video clip and the song! 💖💖💖👍
@@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.
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.
Oh, I believe it!😂
Gen X had a blast to MC Hammer, pure fun, great times dancing many days to this one, very loved!❤️🎶❤️🎶Great times on a dance floor!
😃 “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
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Check out Utah Saints - Something Good 2009, Dee Normus. Thank me later :-)
Somebody should pass this along to Hammer. I bet he’d appreciate the love from new fans.
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!
Yeah, this album was an absolute monster when it came out. 1990 was basically "The Year of MC Hammer."
Yeah, I’m sure his parents danced to this.😂
Truth
Facts!!
Funeral. 😂 I joke, but I would be surprised if this wasn't played at at least 1 funeral back then. It was THAT popular.
This is old school rap that everyone liked unlike today’s which does not cross over at all.
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!
The pants that were made of parachute material were called parachute pants.
Back when Mtv was Mtv. Fun times.
Absolutely 💯
Back when MTV actually played music videos.
I remember when it was all videos and no commercials
Yes when there was no dramedy
Fun fact: Paula Abdul made the coreography to some of the dancing and is one of the dancers wearing black in the background :)
I'm slightly in love with Paula Abdul 😍
Love her! He should listen to one of her songs if he hasn’t
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.
But he didn't drink lean and his dancers weren't prostitutes. So it's not cool.
I am 74 yrs old and I love this video and his dancing is awesome!!
"You guys know what time it is..."
Damn right! IT'S HAMMER TIME!!!
Everyone loved MC Hammer ❤️❤️🎶🥰🎶🥰
They are literally called "Hammer pants." He basically made the style.
Word!!!
No they are harem pants as worn for centuries.
@@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.
Parachute Pants or Hammer Pants
z cavaricci pants were the fashionable ones. Had 4 pair, wore them anytime I went out.
Hook is from Rick James’ Superfreak. She’s a super freak, super freak, she’s super freaky. Yooooow!
They were dancing their ass off in this video. This song came out when I was in the 5th grade, and I remember wishing I was in the video
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!
"She's a Super FREAK, Super FREAK" ... 😆
Lol
He’s super freaking owwwt!
I was wondering when someone would pay homage to Rick James.
A hit that went nation wide very popular for along time. We danced to the song for years
People that never listened to Rap were familiar with this tune. It' Hammer time!!
I visited USA 1990, and I can tell you this was 10 times a day on the radio
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 🙏
Since then, anytime someone says STOP, automaticly someone says HAMMERTIME!!
STOP!
@@sophitsa79 HAMMERTIME!!
It's an unwritten rule lol
works best in a stressful situation like a teacher/boss/parent losing their cool enough to shout "STOP!" in the first place.
Yep!
This was a serious jam way back in the day
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 loved your story. Made me 😃
This was one of those songs that just broke through all barriers and was loved by EVERYBODY. I'm not even sure what I would compare it to. The same kind of power as something like Gagnam Style where it just blew up and got played by everybody at every party, every event, but whereas that song was more like a temporary meme, this song just stayed hot and never quit. This song got so hot that they even gave MC Hammer his own saturday morning cartoon show for kids (it didn't last long so nobody remembers, but that happened!). Those pants were Hammer's signature style, like Kris Kross's backwards pants or MJ's white glove. That was just his thing, but you know there were people wearing that! Just like people did the MJ white glove and everything! Some people definitely did that. I just remember everyone calling them "hammer pants" or "parachute pants". They added some extra flourish to his dancing.
While Hammer was immensely popular at the time his fame and relevance had a significant decline by the end of 1991. By '92, rappers like Kriss Kross and Sir Mixalot were topping the charts, and at that point, Hammer was seen as lame, and "U Can't Touch This" became nothing more than a distant memory.
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.
Those pants/trousers have a dozen names. The most common are harem trousers. Madly comfortable!
Parachute Pants :D
Parachute pants is more common.
@@metoo7557 Not in Europe. 😊
@@lemonscampi Yes, another term right there! Haremtrousers is the most common where I live.
Hammer Pants.
I had a banana yellow pair of those pants! Much to my dismay, they didn't make me dance like "the Hammer!"
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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
Danced my ass off to this song!!! The running man and cabbage patch!!
Fun wasn't it?
wasn't that side-to-side move called "The typewriter"? Could be wrong. I'm not a dancer.
"you already know what time it is"
"Hammertime?"
You need to try C & C music factory
Things that make you go Hmmmm &
Everybody dance now
Perfect!
And don't forget to give credit to Martha Wash, since they didn't.
Great song!!!!
Yes! Those are great suggestions. Use to work out to C & C Music Factory.
Gonna Make you Sweat
1989 was Vanilla Ice and "Ice Ice Baby" then 1990 was MC Hammers "U Can't Touch This". I was 11 and loved MC Hammer! 😁
Young MC "Bust A Move" and Bobby Brown "Every Little Step "
Bobby Brown, My Prerogative!
Nah, get some old Bobby Brown stuff from when he was in New Edition.
MC Hammer also likes BIG BUTTS! HaHa! : )
@@jankypop-a-matic58 that would be Sir Mix-a-Lot who likes big butts 😉
@@PheLaReux I know, I just felt like being silly. Same time period and same vibe! LOL
This song came out in my mid-20s....even my Moma liked it.....I had to buy the WHOLE ALBUM (on cassette) for her!
LOL
"Let me know what the pants are called."
Hammer pants.
Next Unboxing Video: "Hey, somebody sent me some MC Hammer Pants" - Jovaughn (somebody make it happen 🤣)
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Those are called harem pants
Ebay might have them!! I would love to see you wearing them Jay!! 🤣🤣🤣
Parachute pants
Ha! Comfortable I'm sure but I'm glad they didn't catch on. He wore them spectacularly well though!
"He's in his zone"....and thats why you can't touch this! 😆
The hook is from Rick James Super Freak
Omg! MC Hammer! And yeah, we just called them "Hammer Pants", lol....they were super popular for a hot minute!
He was a world wide legend. I am native German and was in elementary school when this song came up. Hammer Time!
And all girls started wearing cycling pants afterwards lol
OMG!!! Flashbacks of me and my friends doing this dance. Well, trying anyway. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Dancing to this song back in the day is one of the reasons we now have bad knees 😂
#Truth
This song got everyone up and dancing in the clubs... back in my day 😂✌️
I love the way music breaks barriers and it melts away all the walls of division
J, The hook music is from Rick James "Super Freak" 1981. This song is from 1990
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!!
To Legit to Quit should be nexted Jay
Yesss...2 legit 2 quit!!
Yyyyaaaaaassssss!!
YES! THAT'S ANOTHER HE SHOULD REACT TO! TOO LEGIT TO QUIT! or 2 legit 2 quit, which ever way it is listed.
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Yes!!
Jovaughn... I can’t believe that you have never listened to this song in its entirety! I’m so happy that you have now though. ❤️
PARACHUTE PANTS! EVERYBODY HAD A PAIR BACK IN THE 80,s AND, 90,s..🎉
Lol, if this comes on the radio, the cleaning stops and I’m dancing 😎
Jayvee: "I'mma bring it back, ... try to attempt this dance for y'all. Maybe."
Me: Please Hammer, don't hurt him.
I see what you did there 👀🤣
Jay, dance like we're not watchin 🕺🏾
I would LOVE to see that happen 🕺🏾
😂😂😂
Jay got some moves going!
Marylou Clemente Jay makes me wanna dance seeing him move like that😂💃🏼🕺🏻
I gotta see it! 😂😂😂
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).
I never knew this. (And I grew up in the Bay Area in a house full of baseball fans!) Great story!
I just googled the photo. They really do look alike !!!
I was in highschool when this came out. This was the song.
Just like "Bust A Move," this is one of the greatest rap songs ever. Today's rappers are like pee-wee league compared to the rappers back then.
When Rap was decent music.
Was the best thing my little self had heard when it first came out 😂
We did the running man to this at recess everyday at school, 😂.
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Hell, we even learned it on our cheerleading squad!
"You know what time it is"! Hammer time
It makes me so happy to see young cats like you learn what real Singing and music is all about
Jay, you’re so cute when you dance! I think they’re called them harem pants. Very catchy, feel good song. Video has great energy. 💖
"You guys already know what time it is".
Me: HAMMER TIME!
This deserves more likes
If this was the only one of his videos you saw, you would totally assume he was referring to HAMMER TIME!
Too Legit to Quit ,hammer time 🤎🤎✌🏾✌🏾
That was a good one!
Another vote for listening to "Too Legit to Quit"
Let's Get It Started or Turn This Mother Out
I think the pants can be known as "Parachute Pants" as I recently reread a MCU fic where Rhodey says something about Tony wearing them in his teens.
Wore my purple hammer pants on the 1st day of school. ❤
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! 😂
yep, I was thinking Hammer pants, parachute pants, but nowadays you can find them as harem pants or just drop-crotch pants
Should have patented the design
Harem pants
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!!!
I saw him live, fall 2019, and he STILL brings the energy! He's amazing.
Listen to this back in the day? I had the album on cassette. Gawd I feel old.
"Excuse me, constable, could you please tell me the time?"
"It's HAMMER TIME!"
You gott hear Young MC BUST A MOVE
yessss
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Young MC/Know how
Hammer was great. High energy guy. We all danced to this one.
My sister twisted her ankle really badly trying to do this with her daughter, lol! Still an epic song.
Looks like it's been awhile since somebody commented on this video, let me tell you when I used to hit the night clubs back in the 80's & 90's in my younger buffed days, were I come from on the east coast those pants were called "parachute pants" I never wore them but you would see guys wearing them,were never my cup of tea but people enjoyed them back in the day as you younger guys would say good job on the video's keep up the good work.
It was a hit in Peru back in the early 90's
I have 5 and I love them .
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.
Good to know! Thank you Trish!
Actually there are called parachute pants.
Actually, mc hammer wanted people to call them hammer pants, but everyone--the public and media--called them parachute pants.
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.
Harempants.com lol
Jay, Michael Jackson didn't have the only moved. Hammer can be a dancing machine, I loved it.🤩🤩
This was a HUUUGE hit when my kids were teens. I love it!
4:41 Iconic. Hammer was known for his moves in a time period when Michael Jackson was at the height of his stardom. That should tell you something. He was an enormous celebrity and the first major rap star who crossed over to all audiences. I remember the kids at my school were crazy for this song. One day our PE teacher put it on during our warm up and was shocked at how our class just came alive. People loved to get funky and just let it all out to this song. Where MJ was super smooth and refined, Hammer was funky and jerky enough that everybody felt comfortable dancing to this because he was clearly about the hype and energy and less about the refined grace (he was a great dancer/choreographer though). He had some other major hits during this time period. 2 Legit 2 Quit comes to mind. He sort of became so big that he was everywhere and people burned out on him, and by the time gangsta rap exploded onto the scene, Hammer seemed too wholesome and outdated by comparison. He tried to adapt to the times, releasing a more "gangsta rap" type sound, but audiences had moved on. He was massive though and a big part of why rap crossed over into the mainstream. You can even find clips of him performing at award shows and audiences get into it, especially when he does the "hammer dance" at 4:41. In the same way Michael Jordan's silhouette is synonymous with him, or the moonwalk with Michael Jackson, the Hammer dance and Hammer pants are recognizable as part of Hammer's brand.
In the early 80s girls wore pants like that called harem pants. They're basically salwar, worn by men and women in Northern India and Pakistan under long shirts called kameez.
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.
I was a teenager when this came, and we always called them Parachute Pants. ;)
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.
These are not parachute pants.
No bro. Sorry, parachute pants were something completely different.
@@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.
MC Hammer - Pray --- Sampled Princes - When doves cry----
(Not a religious person myself but I appreciate the positive message in the song.)
Had those pants and tried to dance like that back in the day what an amazing time of my life x
I’m from the BAY AREA ,and when this came out EVERYONE WANTED TO BE HAMMER 🔨!!!