He does. Some may think his music is elementary.. NOT. Hammer brought new to the table at the time. As we say...standing on bizness. Biggups Hammer #icon2nd2none.lol❤❤❤❤
But to me?! From my point of view!👈🏿💪🏿 His twin or his best male friend the dancer on the right?! Smh smh smh he is the one who I feel was the Dopest as far as the dancing. My cuzint had that gift of dance gab that swagger. He made his sweat suit fly 😆💸 but we still can those dances to this day literally!💪🏿👈🏿
Real Recognize Real. The King MC Hammer brought his own Style and Flava to the True Culture of Hip-Hop and in no way disgraced it. Peace & Respect to the MC. ✊🏽
As a black person if u don't like n respect Mc Hammer u ain't shiznit. Yeah I said it, this man opened to many doors in the black community and beyond.
The door was open before hammer came on the scene, not taking anything from him, he is the man, Grand master Flash, Sugar hill gang, Run DMC, just to name a few, opened the door for hammer, Just because he might have made more money didn’t ope any doors.
Oaktown 357 wasn't the best backup dancers ever lol. Scoob & Scrap, Big Daddy Kane's dancers and Stezo - Epmd backup dancer was much better. Shit, I think Bell Biv Devoe 4 female backup dancers were as good as Oaktown 357. I cant front though I had a big crush on Terrible T from Oaktown 357.
Hammer was lyrically on par with the rappers of that era back in 86. LL, nor RUN DMC had great lyrics and Inobody ever calls them out on that. They had hard rhyme styles and that's what hammer had a hard hammer delivery. lust like the tool. He just couldn't modernize and he started to fall off like every other rapper. He is an old school rapper and people need to regard him as that and not the rapper from the early 90's that hung around a bit too long. His Prime was 86-90. A good solid run for a West Coast Legend.
This came out in like ‘88. I was in the 8th grade and we would show off our moves that we learned from the video before class started. Great memories, I’d pay money to go back!
Hammer was the first actual ENTERTAINER who was a rapper, and that's that. His shows set a level no rapper has ever ascended since. It really doesn't matter if revisionists try to tear him down - there's never been anybody like him since.
I don't give a damn what nobody says. Y'all know you use to like Hammer back in the day. But when gangsta rap came out everyone start acting like Hammer was whack but know they had his cassette tapes & went to his concerts. I may have been in 5th grade when he came out but I remember all the grown folks who use to listen to his music. I'm not ashamed to say I liked Hammer in 1990 & I still like him in 2016!
I'll admit it....I used to love MC Hammer back in the "day". Being stationed in the Bay area then, I got to see and hear first hand the hype surrounding him. He was an amazing entertainer. I started disliking him when he got too commercialized and finally started loathing him when he tried to be a gangster rapper. But through it all, when I sometimes reminisce about the early 90's, I still remember the good times I had when they played MC Hammer at the club and to this day, I still occasionally play his music when i get pensive about those fun days.
Yeah Hammer had no business signing with Death Row lol. However, I use like that "Pumps in the Bump" song that he came out with in the mid 90s. That was one of my favorite songs by him lol
Regardless what people had to say about him not being hard, my parents approved of his music and they bought all of his music for me. I am still a fan to this day!
Not being hard??! Hammer was a knockout king!!! Rappers were scared of him!! Look it up!!! Just because you like to have fun doest mean your soft!!! Just like most of the rappers that we grew up with were STUDIO GANGSTERS, HAMMER WAS A REAL GANGSTER HE JUST DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT!!
@@haelisrael4945MC HAMMER was a GREAT RAP ENTERTAINER no doubt about that. The problem that some HIP HOP PURISTS like myself had with HAMMER was not the fact that his music was not hard enough. That WAS NOT the issue. The problem we had with HAMMER was that he DID NOT have any true rapping skills or rhyming delivery and flow. His rap used to sound VERY CHOPPY. But he could DANCE HIS ASS OFF. MC HAMMER was the EXACT OPPOSITE of RAKIM. Because RAKIM was a VERY GREAT LYRICAL RAPPER with multiple syllable rhymes and a SMOOTH FLOW. But RAKIM had poor stage shows and RAKIM did not dance. But one rapper back in the late 80s who was very good at both RHYMING and DANCING as well was BIG DADDY KANE. Because KANE was lyrical enough to hang with RAKIM, and could dance good enough to put on a GREAT STAGE SHOW like MC HAMMER.
If you liked this, you should check out his Too legit video. Their energy levels are off the charts! Period. Makes me tired just watching all of them dance the wax off that floor.
That's how we roll back then we were in great shape not overweight like the youth today. So believe it when you dance you dance hard to his songs and it was fun.
@@poshlady43 now they don't dance anymore (besides twerking) but today's youth are not fat.... Either skinny or muscle bound.... Now the girls are 'thick' fat... IJS
OMG, I saw Hammer in concert when I was like 12 (I'm 39 now) at the Capital Center in Maryland!!! Best concert ever!!! I went crazy AF dancin, I had a ball with my mom and dad surprisingly, LOL!!!! They asked me to come on stage, but I chickened out, LOL #thememories
I always found it kind of sad that MC Hammer is remembered for "Can't Touch This" instead of the innovative stuff he did earlier in his career like this.
Hammer's verse was actually cold! Listen again if you doubt it...he speaks about people sleeping on hiphop and sleeping on his ability to be a dope artist!
This man is so talented and even though people make fun of his bankruptcy...he has a good heart and actually is a good business man. He was marketing on commercials etc when other rappers joked him. Now they're following in his footsteps.
People have to understand; MC Hammer was an ENTERTAINER, not a lyricist. He wasn't going to wow you with hot complex lines, but his music was about getting you hype, and he was about entertaining you on stage. Only him and Michael Jackson really did it at that high level. MJ was the greatest entertainer who ever lived, but if Hammer isn't #2 he damn sure isn't #10.
He was definitely a high level entertainer with multiple talents. I'm a lyricist & even I can respect that! Like MICHAEL JACKSON & PRINCE, HAMMER is an ICONIC LEGEND 4-EVER!!!! 🔨👌😎👍🎤🌟💎
Exactly, thats why l got agitated when he came out dissin Run- Dmc who was actually lyrical and had skills. Mc hammer couldnt rap for shit but was a hell of an entertainer and l liked him for that. But yeah when "pump it up" came out with the video it was obvious who he was dissin. DMC was out in that era and hammer was still sorta new coming in. Anyway, he made his mark tho indefinitely!
Im from NEWYORK CITY, and we didnt fvck with HAMMER in 1988, 89, 90 . It was all about RUN DMC, LL COOL J, RAKIM, KRS ONE, BIG DADDY KANE, KOOL G RAP, EPMD, SPECIAL ED, KOOL MOE DEE, PUBLIC ENEMY, DELASOUL, JUNGLE BROS, TRIBE CALLED QUEST, 3RD BASE, BRAND NUBIANS, and other NYC RAPPERS of that era baby .
I see why this jam was always played first at Hammer concerts! This is the rap/hip-hop equavilent of Wanna Be Startin Sumthin! U feel nothing less than hype for hours as soon as this starts up!
Ahh yes! Those good ol days partying in the clubs like the Oakland Army Base, The Palladium, The Das Club, Silks, Jimmy's, ECT... Seeing Hammer and his crew come by and party with the crowd. That was fun times for dancing & romancing.😉💃🏾🕺🏾
He is a fashion icon and very underrated as a rapper, dancer, actor and philanthropist. He supported and entire community. His stamina is universe and I am still seeking an audition to be a MC Hammer dancer don't ever disrespect the Hammer.
For today's sermon I'll be reading from the Gospel of Hammer, Chapter 1, Verse 1. 'And so Hammer did speak unto the b-boys and b-girls, and he did sayeth: "Put on the Hammer, and you shall be rewarded. For my beat is ever-boomin', and you know I get it started." And they did, and lo, they were blessed with minds full of rhymes, and tongues of steel.' Amen.
you know a timeless hit when you can remember where you were at when you first heard it 🤣👌🏻, it was like 88-89 and we were at my aunts who had cable tv because it was so expensive back then and (we) as in (kids) were in the bedroom looking at what was called video jukebox where you phoned in your video selection for a fee but your video would hold until the other callers orders played, then yours would play in the order received listen! this video came on and everybody in that room was completely engaged into that tv I'm talkng we almost forgot who else was in the room into it 😂 and before you know it, callers kept ordering it back to back to back and the entire room ended up doing the hammer shoulder shrug and backwards feet slide every time it played 🕺🏻🤣 and for you kids reading this, keep in mind that nobody had ever combined rap and dance thus far that way, so it was kinda like it was ahead of it's time seeing it towards the end of the 80's like that, so he did "get it started" 😅👌🏻
👍🏾 This story is so nostalgic. I was about 8yo during that time, and I remember Video Jukebox very well. I feel like I could’ve been in that room jamming with y’all. 😂
I love how people my age (42) try to front on Hammer like he didn't run the late 80's! He has the hardest of the hard DANCING in baggy pants. Stop the madness. The man is a legend!!! And deserves his respect.
When this guy came out!!!! All rappers knew it’s Hammer Time!!! He had The Rhythm The Beat The Bank The Dance The Clout The Girls The Look The Style The Edge Lol he had it going on and when you played his music , the floor got packed!
I use to do the Hammer dances back in the day and could get it with no problem. I tried doing them not long ago and I was surprised I could still get it. Kinda rusty but I still got it but that shit wore me out. Lol
What I liked most about this era was how the world seemed bigger/ less connected (no internet etc), so each section of the country developed its own culture-- everything from music to dress was unique depending on where u were from. It made the music much better....really wish it was the same these days
Hammer was the man back then. Yall dont understand how impactful this was. His biggest mistake was going mainstream after the first album. If he made another underground album after that this would have cemented his hold on the game. Hammer was the man. It was too much damn energy that no one could match.
His biggest mistake was employing 50 plus homies with an average salary of 50K. I commend him for doing so, but it wasn't fiscally sound. Nevertheless, Hammer is a great guy.
I agree. Though, he also had help from the haters who, Instead of supporting him, or at the very least, let him be, just sabotaged his career. It wasn't cool to listen to Hammer. I don't care. I still love the guy.
Growing up in Alaska this song went hard AF!!! I was a chubby kid, and can honest say I lost weight dancing too this song! Back in the day if you weren't drenched in sweat after dancing then you wasn't doing 💩!!! I tell my kids this song and It Takes Two- Rob Base was the best hip hop dance songs ever!!! Great memories to Hammer!!!
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He deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award for his music. It's HAMMER TIME!!!
Absolutely 💯
It's time. He really does deserve to be honored
Huh My Brutha 😮
Facts!! BET need to do his biopic!!
He does. Some may think his music is elementary.. NOT. Hammer brought new to the table at the time. As we say...standing on bizness. Biggups Hammer #icon2nd2none.lol❤❤❤❤
Hammer will always hold an iconic place in hip hop history
That's rite!😊
True
Facts
I do remember being a snob and thinking "what's this???". That when New York style hip hop/rap dominated.
In rap, but not hip hop
He deserves a lifetime achievement award or something.
I agree... #1K
Absolutely 👍🏽 This still kicks in 2023.
Not talking about killing nobody or sex .. just pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I' ll tell you one thing. No one can ever say he couldn't dance. Hammer was off the chain.
I put him in the class with Michael and James brown
nope...NOBODY worked harder than Hammer back in the day
Saw him live in 2019 and he danced his ASS off
But to me?! From my point of view!👈🏿💪🏿 His twin or his best male friend the dancer on the right?! Smh smh smh he is the one who I feel was the Dopest as far as the dancing. My cuzint had that gift of dance gab that swagger. He made his sweat suit fly 😆💸 but we still can those dances to this day literally!💪🏿👈🏿
Put the pussy on the chain wax!!
That Troop suit ain't no joke
Real Recognize Real. The King MC Hammer brought his own Style and Flava to the True Culture of Hip-Hop and in no way disgraced it. Peace & Respect to the MC. ✊🏽
Facts!!
💯💯💯💯
Definitely 💯
For real, they don't know nothing like this ❤❤
And then the Adams Family happened.
As a black person if u don't like n respect Mc Hammer u ain't shiznit. Yeah I said it, this man opened to many doors in the black community and beyond.
He's the reason rappers get paid the way they get paid now
And here I am thinking of the only person who says shiznit
Tell Em
@@theshockerpit7274 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The door was open before hammer came on the scene, not taking anything from him, he is the man, Grand master Flash, Sugar hill gang, Run DMC, just to name a few, opened the door for hammer, Just because he might have made more money didn’t ope any doors.
Oaktown's 357 will forever be the best back up dancers of all time. So effortless, so natural, so BAY AREA!
word to 357
Oaktown 357 wasn't the best backup dancers ever lol. Scoob & Scrap, Big Daddy Kane's dancers and Stezo - Epmd backup dancer was much better. Shit, I think Bell Biv Devoe 4 female backup dancers were as good as Oaktown 357. I cant front though I had a big crush on Terrible T from Oaktown 357.
Right!!! 357!
Tre W no idea they were back up dancers. I thought they just got started by him but now you say it it makes sense
TheEdub1 wow give me some videos to check out. Im a newbie to my own heritage
People can dog Hammer if they want but he was a more authentic representation of Hip Hop than much of the trash coming out today.
so true
He was never a real rapper. He was an excellent hype man and dancer with the best dance crews. I prefer watching him mute
BRENDA YOUNG Yea he was.
Hammer was lyrically on par with the rappers of that era back in 86. LL, nor RUN DMC had great lyrics and Inobody ever calls them out on that. They had hard rhyme styles and that's what hammer had a hard hammer delivery. lust like the tool. He just couldn't modernize and he started to fall off like every other rapper. He is an old school rapper and people need to regard him as that and not the rapper from the early 90's that hung around a bit too long. His Prime was 86-90. A good solid run for a West Coast Legend.
If you don't like this song then you just aren't really into Hip-Hop.
This came out in like ‘88. I was in the 8th grade and we would show off our moves that we learned from the video before class started. Great memories, I’d pay money to go back!
what's your number baby?
Hammer was the first actual ENTERTAINER who was a rapper, and that's that. His shows set a level no rapper has ever ascended since. It really doesn't matter if revisionists try to tear him down - there's never been anybody like him since.
These people could dance their asses off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LaMescia Montoryas yes.
Yeah these People could dance their ads off..
Our men are the most desired...
Even the fat guy has moves
LaMescia Montoryas yes
I don't give a damn what nobody says. Y'all know you use to like Hammer back in the day. But when gangsta rap came out everyone start acting like Hammer was whack but know they had his cassette tapes & went to his concerts. I may have been in 5th grade when he came out but I remember all the grown folks who use to listen to his music. I'm not ashamed to say I liked Hammer in 1990 & I still like him in 2016!
I'll admit it....I used to love MC Hammer back in the "day". Being stationed in the Bay area then, I got to see and hear first hand the hype surrounding him. He was an amazing entertainer. I started disliking him when he got too commercialized and finally started loathing him when he tried to be a gangster rapper. But through it all, when I sometimes reminisce about the early 90's, I still remember the good times I had when they played MC Hammer at the club and to this day, I still occasionally play his music when i get pensive about those fun days.
Yeah Hammer had no business signing with Death Row lol. However, I use like that "Pumps in the Bump" song that he came out with in the mid 90s. That was one of my favorite songs by him lol
+Whit Glover Completely agree...Lets Get it Started and Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em were fir, but after that...not so much
I love Hamma!
Lol!! I still love him too!! I love dancing so he's ALWAYS been one of my favorite artists to watch.
I'm from Berkeley by way of Oakland California, still love Mc Hammer! Reping the Bay Area on point!
Melody Foster 😘
B Town is The real Town
B Town Grove St Park in the house
*Trend setter, Top tier entertainer, Groundbreaking Legendary MC Hammer!!!*
the dancers in the back was getting it!!
Thiz shit gotta b the best low-budget video of all time, with best dancers, the whole spot wuz dancin' hard az crack...
Jay Gill i wanna be there
Best low budget of all time!!! Plus you know it was hot as hell in there as well! lol
😅🤣🤣Yup and it is
EXACTLY! When I first saw this video I didn't believe it was real....low budget classic!
Much respect for this man. A legend in his own right..💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Regardless what people had to say about him not being hard, my parents approved of his music and they bought all of his music for me. I am still a fan to this day!
Not being hard??! Hammer was a knockout king!!! Rappers were scared of him!! Look it up!!! Just because you like to have fun doest mean your soft!!! Just like most of the rappers that we grew up with were STUDIO GANGSTERS, HAMMER WAS A REAL GANGSTER HE JUST DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT!!
@@haelisrael4945MC HAMMER was a GREAT RAP ENTERTAINER no doubt about that. The problem that some HIP HOP PURISTS like myself had with HAMMER was not the fact that his music was not hard enough. That WAS NOT the issue. The problem we had with HAMMER was that he DID NOT have any true rapping skills or rhyming delivery and flow. His rap used to sound VERY CHOPPY. But he could DANCE HIS ASS OFF. MC HAMMER was the EXACT OPPOSITE of RAKIM. Because RAKIM was a VERY GREAT LYRICAL RAPPER with multiple syllable rhymes and a SMOOTH FLOW. But RAKIM had poor stage shows and RAKIM did not dance. But one rapper back in the late 80s who was very good at both RHYMING and DANCING as well was BIG DADDY KANE. Because KANE was lyrical enough to hang with RAKIM, and could dance good enough to put on a GREAT STAGE SHOW like MC HAMMER.
the choreography in this video is so freakin good.
they tore that ish up!
That's rite!😊
@@topnetworkersgroup yup!😊
If you liked this, you should check out his Too legit video. Their energy levels are off the charts! Period. Makes me tired just watching all of them dance the wax off that floor.
They girls said they would practice long hours into the morning. They were dead serious about their dancing. They are the true Fly Girls.
It still makes me wanna dance !!!
This was when Hammer was at his best. Best dancer ever.
I can't help but to smile watching this... Good ole days.. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I had never seen a dude dance like this, Hammer dance so hard. And he looked good dancing. So many memories!😀
I know. Dudes now dance feminine. Dude was hard.
That's how we roll back then we were in great shape not overweight like the youth today. So believe it when you dance you dance hard to his songs and it was fun.
@@poshlady43 now they don't dance anymore (besides twerking) but today's youth are not fat.... Either skinny or muscle bound.... Now the girls are 'thick' fat... IJS
I had this cassette back in the day..."Feel My Power!!!" I love this video!!! It is true old school!!!
OMG, I saw Hammer in concert when I was like 12 (I'm 39 now) at the Capital Center in Maryland!!! Best concert ever!!! I went crazy AF dancin, I had a ball with my mom and dad surprisingly, LOL!!!! They asked me to come on stage, but I chickened out, LOL #thememories
For a low budget video this is lit AF. I remember bumping this in high school and even bought me a pair of troops, the LL Coolin Series.
Brings Back Good Memories!! Hammer KNEW how to ROCK the stage!!
+Alicia White And that is a fact !!
His shows were DOPE!!!
You couldn't find a single person sitting at his concerts.
😘
That's rite
@@HannibalHector714 that's rite
To be a kid born and raised in Oakland California this Hammer era was everything.
Hammer was a showman and a concert genius!
I always found it kind of sad that MC Hammer is remembered for "Can't Touch This" instead of the innovative stuff he did earlier in his career like this.
This and Pump It Up is what got me hooked on Hammer.
He was the best in his earlier songs!
Yes !!!!! This was when Hammer was the shit!!! For me
I agree. Between this and Turn this Mutha Out definitely solidified Hammer in the hip hop world
@@badnewzscubasteveI was 7when they hit, he had the livest crew, my mama used to say them big leg gals dancing they ass off & they did.
This was the reason why people didn't have that obesity problem back then like we do now.
Lol! Funny but true!
🤣🤣🤣
For real!!! That's why today I can dance 4 songs straight.. I wanted to be a Hammer back up dancer so bad.🤣
Hell yeah! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My fat azz will Testify to that!!!!
Hammer's verse was actually cold! Listen again if you doubt it...he speaks about people sleeping on hiphop and sleeping on his ability to be a dope artist!
FACTS
.....RIGHTEOUS
This man is so talented and even though people make fun of his bankruptcy...he has a good heart and actually is a good business man. He was marketing on commercials etc when other rappers joked him. Now they're following in his footsteps.
COLLEGE DAYS: Spike Lee, Hammer, New Edition, Bobby Brown, Guy, Keith Sweat,...THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!
Yep...poor kids, don't know what they missed!
Yes!!!
Can’t forget Janet Jackson, Ll Cool J, Prince, Salt & pepa
I would kill to have been in an HBCU in the late 80s 😢
I swear hip hop used to be so much fun back in the day. Go Hammer!
His voice is so good on this track. HARD AF.
Hammer was the definition of a dancer. He murder the dance floor
This is my first time seeing this video. Respect Mc Hammer.
People have to understand; MC Hammer was an ENTERTAINER, not a lyricist. He wasn't going to wow you with hot complex lines, but his music was about getting you hype, and he was about entertaining you on stage.
Only him and Michael Jackson really did it at that high level. MJ was the greatest entertainer who ever lived, but if Hammer isn't #2 he damn sure isn't #10.
Hammer was n is the shit Brooklyn4eva
He was definitely a high level entertainer with multiple talents. I'm a lyricist & even I can respect that! Like MICHAEL JACKSON & PRINCE, HAMMER is an ICONIC LEGEND 4-EVER!!!! 🔨👌😎👍🎤🌟💎
Exactly, thats why l got agitated when he came out dissin Run- Dmc who was actually lyrical and had skills. Mc hammer couldnt rap for shit but was a hell of an entertainer and l liked him for that. But yeah when "pump it up" came out with the video it was obvious who he was dissin. DMC was out in that era and hammer was still sorta new coming in. Anyway, he made his mark tho indefinitely!
That's rite
James Brown was the best! That's were they got it from!
The 80s was a FUN decade.
cflo1386 The BEST of times!
+cflo1386 the fuck up
JL you ain't lying sometimes I wanna go back!
+Seven Of Seven.
+Marlon Moore me too lol
Hammer was before his time... Them dances he was doing in 88-89 is relevant now.
This song is still hitting in 2021!
Hammer wasn't to be played with!!!
This still rocks after 20+ years!!!!!
If you are from the classes of 1988, '89, and '90, you knew what time it was! We got down back in the day!
Im from NEWYORK CITY, and we didnt fvck with HAMMER in 1988, 89, 90 .
It was all about RUN DMC, LL COOL J, RAKIM, KRS ONE, BIG DADDY KANE, KOOL G RAP, EPMD, SPECIAL ED, KOOL MOE DEE, PUBLIC ENEMY, DELASOUL, JUNGLE BROS, TRIBE CALLED QUEST, 3RD BASE, BRAND NUBIANS, and other NYC RAPPERS of that era baby .
I don't care what nobody say this song still bumps to this day!
Neisha Jordan 😘
I see why this jam was always played first at Hammer concerts! This is the rap/hip-hop equavilent of Wanna Be Startin Sumthin! U feel nothing less than hype for hours as soon as this starts up!
Ahh yes! Those good ol days partying in the clubs like the Oakland Army Base, The Palladium, The Das Club, Silks, Jimmy's, ECT... Seeing Hammer and his crew come by and party with the crowd. That was fun times for dancing & romancing.😉💃🏾🕺🏾
Gary Franklin that's right
@@mbowen67 Thanks, sounds like you were there too.😀👍
I was 20 years old when this came out. Hammer got it started at the clubs in Detroit. I danced my ass off on this song.
He is a fashion icon and very underrated as a rapper, dancer, actor and philanthropist. He supported and entire community. His stamina is universe and I am still seeking an audition to be a MC Hammer dancer don't ever disrespect the Hammer.
Exactly
Now thats cardio for your ass
ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS IVE EVER BEEN TOO AND I'M A NEW YORKER!!!! ♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️
For today's sermon I'll be reading from the Gospel of Hammer, Chapter 1, Verse 1.
'And so Hammer did speak unto the b-boys and b-girls, and he did sayeth: "Put on the Hammer, and you shall be rewarded. For my beat is ever-boomin', and you know I get it started." And they did, and lo, they were blessed with minds full of rhymes, and tongues of steel.'
Amen.
Bro, 🤣🤣🤣
I wont lie Hammer still one of my favorites
I am now wore out from dancing, this REALLY takes me back. This is dance music.....
you know a timeless hit when you can remember where you were at when you first heard it 🤣👌🏻, it was like 88-89 and we were at my aunts who had cable tv because it was so expensive back then and (we) as in (kids) were in the bedroom looking at what was called video jukebox where you phoned in your video selection for a fee but your video would hold until the other callers orders played, then yours would play in the order received
listen! this video came on and everybody in that room was completely engaged into that tv I'm talkng we almost forgot who else was in the room into it 😂 and before you know it, callers kept ordering it back to back to back and the entire room ended up doing the hammer shoulder shrug and backwards feet slide every time it played 🕺🏻🤣 and for you kids reading this, keep in mind that nobody had ever combined rap and dance thus far that way, so it was kinda like it was ahead of it's time seeing it towards the end of the 80's like that, so he did "get it started" 😅👌🏻
👍🏾 This story is so nostalgic. I was about 8yo during that time, and I remember Video Jukebox very well. I feel like I could’ve been in that room jamming with y’all. 😂
The jukebox aka The Box was way ahead of its time used ta b Tha shiznit Hammer played almost 24/7 Oaktown n Tha House 🏠
I was 8 years old around that time I first saw this on B.E.T on video soul and video Vibration. In my area we didn't have the box
its hard to mention hiphop w/o this legend...he mos def got it started whn he came out
I love how people my age (42) try to front on Hammer like he didn't run the late 80's! He has the hardest of the hard DANCING in baggy pants. Stop the madness.
The man is a legend!!! And deserves his respect.
one of the best old school videos of all time..theze young punks today dont no how to party like this...
This is the Hammer that was the coolest. After he got big, he was pop. This was the dopest Hammer. And a few more videos from this time.
Pump It Up era
Hammer is the greatest rapper. He is pure legendary power on that stage dancing and rapping!
Soon as Hammer said " I can do this" I knew shit got real
I'm STILL a Fan and I STILL LOVE THIS SONG in 2021!!!!!😊💃🏿🕺💃🏿🕺💜💜💜
Oh wow, I always liked his dances and moves and his songs we love you Hammer you will always be the bomb I miss the 80's music love it!!!
When this guy came out!!!!
All rappers knew it’s
Hammer Time!!!
He had
The Rhythm
The Beat
The Bank
The Dance
The Clout
The Girls
The Look
The Style
The Edge
Lol he had it going on and when you played his music , the floor got packed!
You can say whatever you want to say about Hammer but this joint is hard...
that's it!!!!!as of tomorrow,I'm wearing biker shorts and a turtleneck.
Don't forget your troop suit
MC HAMMER MUSIC STILL HOLDING IT DOWN....
I use to do the Hammer dances back in the day and could get it with no problem. I tried doing them not long ago and I was surprised I could still get it. Kinda rusty but I still got it but that shit wore me out. Lol
LMBO! But you got it! Good job!
Right i hit the running man recently and totties all over the place feel down nn twisted my back goooooadamn i cant take it but tried
I love MC Hammer. He gets me hyped up
What I liked most about this era was how the world seemed bigger/ less connected (no internet etc), so each section of the country developed its own culture-- everything from music to dress was unique depending on where u were from. It made the music much better....really wish it was the same these days
that explains everything
Truth 💯💯💯
You hit it on the head...I first noticed everyone was now the same on the Hood to Hood video...whole country was one hood same style
So true! I actually loved that isolated feeling.
excellent point the internet enhanced the world and ruined it at the same time
Pure energy and excitement!!!
MC Hammer dont get the RESPECT
he DESERVES..yoooooo
The James Brown of HipHop🏅
Sweet LD, Lil P, and Terrible T are by far the best back up dancers yet.
Hammer was the man back then. Yall dont understand how impactful this was. His biggest mistake was going mainstream after the first album. If he made another underground album after that this would have cemented his hold on the game. Hammer was the man. It was too much damn energy that no one could match.
His biggest mistake was employing 50 plus homies with an average salary of 50K. I commend him for doing so, but it wasn't fiscally sound. Nevertheless, Hammer is a great guy.
I agree. Though, he also had help from the haters who, Instead of supporting him, or at the very least, let him be, just sabotaged his career. It wasn't cool to listen to Hammer.
I don't care. I still love the guy.
This was when rap was at it's most fun
Growing up in Alaska this song went hard AF!!! I was a chubby kid, and can honest say I lost weight dancing too this song!
Back in the day if you weren't drenched in sweat after dancing then you wasn't doing 💩!!!
I tell my kids this song and It Takes Two- Rob Base was the best hip hop dance songs ever!!!
Great memories to Hammer!!!
One of the best diss records ever.
THE BEAT IS IN EFFECT LIKE YO OIL AND YO GASSSSS!
Hammer changed the game when he came, much respect
Hammer wasn"t WHACK....people NEVER seen it before
Ham’s running man was cold blooded.
That troop suit is clean asf..
These youngster will never understand. Back in the dance, when the DJ put this on, EVERYBODY was on the dance floor!!!
I absolutely love him!
Damnnnnn! Look at the TROOP jacket 😍👌🏾🏆🏆🏆
MAN THEY WERE HAVING HELLA FUN!
So many memories. I remember I use to do these dance and dance like the girls in the back 😂😂😂
You couldn't tell me shit when I wore my hammer pants to school in 6th grade 😁😁 All these decades later and this man STILL gets me hype asf!
This is when Rap Music was fun, I wish it was still like this. No talk of killing, no foul language, just good clean fun.
0:41, 3:09 - People will be doing that dance 100 years from now!
2018 still listening to M.C.Hammer 🔨
Still listening to Mc Hammer in 2021...I love watching his videos... he's so entertaining!
How can you not LOVE this song?!!!
This is so freakin good
+thisgirliknow not really
+Aakao Priest so why did you watch it?
+NotyNoty LOL!
ooohgumdrops
ooojhgumdrops
Hammer is a legend and he put the west coast in the front of hip hop when he came out
Still pumping Mc Hammer in 2019 baby!!!!