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About This Track
U Can’t Touch This was MC Hammer’s most widely-known single, propelling sales of its album, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, which for a time was the best-selling rap album of all time, selling over ten million copies. The song heavily samples Rick James’s “Super Freak”; James is accordingly credited as a co-author. The lyrics, written entirely by Hammer, are in the boastful self-promotional style common in hip hop.
They describe the rapper as having “toured around the world, from London to the Bay” and as being “magic on the mic,” which Hammer says combines with Rick James’ “beat that you can’t touch” to create the perfect rap song. While some critics, especially in the gangsta rap community, disliked the song, enough people approved of it to secure the Grammy for Best R&B Song and Best Rap Solo Performance, a brand new category at the time, for MC Hammer.
In 2008, it was ranked number 26 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
They describe the rapper as having “toured around the world, from London to the Bay” and as being “magic on the mic,” which Hammer says combines with Rick James’ “beat that you can’t touch” to create the perfect rap song. While some critics, especially in the gangsta rap community, disliked the song, enough people approved of it to secure the Grammy for Best R&B Song and Best Rap Solo Performance, a brand new category at the time, for MC Hammer.
In 2008, it was ranked number 26 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
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camarorocks wrote:
cant touch disssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BeckyLovesDelta wrote:
what happens when you accidentally touch him? lol
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siryvonnebell wrote:
THIS SONG WAS BIG WHEN THE PISTONS WON BACK IN THE DAY!!!!
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hollyheer wrote:
Ah Man great memories!!!
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camarorocks wrote:
awsome track!!!
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xtwntraphq wrote:
Classic
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IVShadowIV wrote:
Doesn't get any better then this!
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VllNA wrote:
CHUCK NORRIS CAN TOUCH THIS
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greenko wrote:
hammer time!! БЛИАТЬ!
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katjoaz91 wrote:
Best song <3
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moodyman11 wrote:
Can't touch this
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DJBDubbBPM wrote:
WOW I wonder how a pair of those Hammer pants are worth right about now? He was a entertainer.....
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aimalyse wrote:
I was head-bobbing, and didn't even realize it for the first half of the song.
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malyfyx wrote:
This should be the only song in this mix
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isR34L wrote:
One word: Classic.
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Marjo47 wrote:
old school for sure.
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BlueCosmin wrote:
"I don't know what hammer time is, or how it differs from regular time" - Dexter Morgan
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becken32 wrote:
Dancing...U Can't Touch This!
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goboywonder wrote:
♪Walk, Walk, Walk♪
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jay516 wrote:
Break it down. Stop Hammer time!
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