March 26, 2026
Top 5 MC Hammer Songs: Our Hardest List Yet
90s pop rap defined an era, but has MC Hammer’s discography truly stood the test of time? In this challenging edition of Top 5, hosts Garrett Gonzales and Mike Joseph attempt the impossible: ranking the best tracks from an icon whose cultural footprint often outpaces his musical longevity.
The problem? Many listeners find that while Hammer’s energy was infectious in 1990, the production and lyrical style haven't totally aged well in the modern era. Garrett and Mike get candid about the struggle to separate the spectacle from the songs, making this the hardest Top 5 list they have ever had to assemble.
From the inescapable "U Can't Touch This" to the high-budget "2 Legit 2 Quit," the duo dissects the hits to see what still resonates. You’ll hear a deep dive into "Let's Get It Started," the smooth "It's All Good," and the gospel-heavy "Do Not Pass Me By." The benefit for you? A nostalgic yet critical look at a hip-hop pioneer that dares to ask if the music still holds up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're back with our, maybe our hardest top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So far for show and it what's going to also be interesting is you're going to have a playlist that you got to put together for one MC Hammer and I almost want to give you a little bit of freedom to kind of maybe add Some maybe add some B and G B Oak town 357
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[SPEAKER_01]: What else, who else is kind of, you know, close in the hammer universe?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: because and put old episodes of hammerman in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know do something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, we'll do our top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This one will probably not take very long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I think mine, I think mine will be a little eye-opening because like we mentioned on the 50 for 50 episode on Hammer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he definitely was in my space a lot more because of growing up in the Bay Area than yours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's kick it off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to put you can't touch this at number five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if I didn't hear it 100,000 times in my lifetime, it's probably number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is the, it is the number one song that people associate with him, but I just heard it so many times that sometimes I listen to it and I go, I do want to listen to this again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but I still want it to be on this list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I put it at number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, my number five is actually the first single from please hammer don't hurt him, which was help the children.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a good message eight samples mercy mercy me by Marvin Gaye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It I don't know do that by the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like with a lot of this stuff hammer like made the record first and then ask questions later what's there how does it say and go ask for forgiveness not for permission and somehow it worked out for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it would work out that way for some rappers in the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not too much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, pretty much every song on this album except one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is except to or based around like very, very popular samples, like if that album had been made even a year or two later, it would have cost five times more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he wasn't being subtle about any of this either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like bomb squad creative sampling where you're like what's that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was basically wrapping over the instrumental of all of these records.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number four for me is do not pass me by from to legit to quit.
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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it is a fun song like I don't even I'm sure that it's like a rip off of like some famous gospel song that I'm not aware of but it is a very fun song the video is very fun and this is the lane of he's appealing to
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[SPEAKER_01]: people's parents with this song, I think, rather than the teenagers who were who were into him at some point, like he's like appealing to like grandma and grandpa and parents and you know, that type of thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought it was a successful song because you're like, okay,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is kind of the blueprint of the first album, and he was able to get another one in that that worked in that same way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when, as you say that, like an important thing to remember here, he said, Hammer was a little bit older.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, to a JIT came out in 1991, Hammer is 29, I think, at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, he's sort of like, he's sort of like, he's just a man, my man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He did worry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but he still wore glasses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I think just acknowledged that he was a little bit older, you know, I keep thinking of the LA line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My old gym teacher and supposed to wrap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can see like how he was sort of maybe going for an older audience than his contemporaries who were all a few years younger were going for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, my number four is pumping up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so like when I was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: 13, 14, most of my teenage years at night on Fridays and Saturdays, I'd hang out with my aunt and her husband and we were just like watch BET.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they had the only TV with cable in the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a satellite dish actually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we will watch videos and BET jumped
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my uncle became like a huge MC Hammer fan because he was a, you know, big dance or kind of guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had the let's get it started CD in the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And puppet up is just like, you know, it's, it's a song that fits hammer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's super danceable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His rhyming is not like embarrassing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just felt like that was his pocket right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So can we actually talk about, you just reminded me if something when you said your uncle was a dancer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The idea of the MC Hammer Dance that he called the Chinese typewriter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What made the typewriter Chinese?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there a difference between American type writers and Chinese type writers?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, other than the characters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, yeah, that's the part I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, what made this Chinese?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's just that because he was going so fast, it seemed like there were more keys on the keyboard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that meme of like the cat, like just like, you haven't just typing away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so yeah, that was kind of interesting to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The typewriter moved that he would do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this, this music of our youth, so many things are trendy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone wants to do, to see those people to wrap the songs, to act like them, to dance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember anybody trying to do the Chinese typewriter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was not really cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think he would ever, like it was corny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure there were some kids that tried to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, unfortunately, and this is only because they were hand me down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a pair of hammer pants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and wore them to school and got they got laughed at, like, horribly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but, you know, when you're 14 years old and you're not buying your own clothes and your wardrobe is limited, you do what you got to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I had balloon pants.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're very similar to the weightlifting pants from back in the day called the zoo baths.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The zoo baths?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the zoo baths weren't, they weren't tapered at the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like hammer pants were like billowy up top and in a, like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they weren't, they, they tapered down at the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were like, cuffed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, um, I, I wore some Zika Viraches to my eighth grade Zika Viraches to my eighth grade graduations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fashion choices we made, some of us made back in those days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad there's very little, if any photographic evidence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was Zika Viraches, and if I remember correctly, maybe like a satin, shiny satin
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[SPEAKER_01]: and a bowl of Thai.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the style, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was, you know, you were rocking your little like new kid's cheek.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but you know, you know, the one thing that people did do that was inspired by Hammer because I think he actually created this for Dion Sanders, but Dion Sanders is a little dance that he would do when he would return an interception or he'd return a punt for a touchdown where he kind of do that little dance in the end zone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Hammer's the one who came up with that so that he could do in the end zone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People did do that on the on the on the on the field for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: know what just popped into my head must be the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it must be the money via deon Sanders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, deon couldn't wrap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, not wrap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But some of the beats on that album are better than the beats on hammer's album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like hammer, like hammer, like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Gate, like he, there was probably a little bit of money put into that Dion album because I remember the, I'm trying to think of what the song was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was like a really fast song where it was kind of reminiscent of those songs in like the late 90s with where the BPMs were like so fast, you know, where that was the whole idea was how fast can we make this song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's some songs on that album that reminded me of that time frame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So number three for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is too legit to quit and it's just some memorable the video so memorable I didn't play it out like you can't touch this it couldn't have gotten played out it wasn't that big of a hit by comparison so every once in a while when I hear it on the radio you know when I'm scrolling through my serious xm and some one-stational play it I'm like okay I'll I'll let it let it go what station would that be I don't know some 90 station probably
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, so my number three actually came from funky headhunter is called don't stop and I don't know man I this was a time period when I watched our senior every night and our member hammer was on our senior Um, although now I'm like how would I have watched that episode it must have been right before I moved out
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I liked the song but the cassette single didn't think that I would be buying a hammer record in 1994, but I liked the song enough that, you know, that that I bought it Teddy Riley produced it, you know, produced pumps in the bump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's got the production is solid even if, you know, hammer still rhyming like hammer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there are some songs on the funky headhunter where he is answering these dudes who disc Tim like this three years before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, again, things have moved on so fast that I don't even think people even remembered that, you know, the the beefs that he's trying to overcome in 1994 on the funky headhunter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, I mean, 1994 my man is just in kidn play and, you know, nobody cares about kidn play in 1994.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he's
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, he's trying to point to the scoreboard as if like his career what had had had not changed since 1990.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I don't know, my guy like, like, bro, just some people and you broke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, number two for me is, let's get it started.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always been one of my favorite hammer tracks from from when I first found found out that there was a an album before you can't touch this came out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's it's the video is so budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if you've seen that video, so budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I actually like it better because of that like so we had a channel I want to say I think it was just a local channel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's called the actually was because it was called the California music channel And so they would play a lot of stuff that MTV wasn't gonna play because it wasn't on MTV's radar And I remember seeing the let's get it started video for the first time and I'm like man
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[SPEAKER_01]: This was only like a year before or two years before you can't touch this which is like super produced and like, you know, for MTV and you're like, what is this like budget budget video doing like so I will always get a kick out of it because you know, you wouldn't see that on MTV until much later and then they would play some of his old stuff, but you'd see that in California music channel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't touch this budget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get it started budget and like even lower.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might be like this My hands on him fit on the screen Yeah, man, so if you ever there's a parody record of let's get it started call somebody farted I just do remember this yes Bobby Jimmy in the critters And whenever I think of let's get it started that song is what pops up in my head first
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I was number one for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or number two, my number two is can't touch this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just because it's, you know, it is part of like history at this point, um, one of those songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, I've said this on a bunch of episodes in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where it's like, you don't really like this song, but you still know every single word, um, they'll know exactly when to do stop the drop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a stop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hammer time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Know it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number one is also from the funky head owner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was me holding on is as tightly as possible to the idea of of hammer and it's all good and it is it's a little bit of a Bob like, yeah, not your head to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a like a lightweight passive aggressive like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This stuff doesn't bother me, but it still bothers me and I'm gonna wrap about it, but it's not hard enough to actually really be like a diss track.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, I'm going to get a couple of shots in here, but I'm still not, you know, I'm not I'm not going to show that I'm fully upset about all of this stuff that's been talked about me in the past, but you know, he's, you know, he's pretend like he's going to beat people up and stuff, but I like this song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because I just like I really like the feeling and what what where I would use it as is I would get ready for baseball game because I'm already out of high school and I'm getting ready to to play in like adult leagues and some of my pro leagues and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I was still in like
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Palamino League or whatever, but I would use that song to kind of like get me in the right head space for, you know, preparing for a game, get my uniform on like kind of getting in that mood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I would use this song for a little while, too, would kind of be my go to song to just kind of get me in like the right Zen moment to play baseball interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can see that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the point you make is funny, it's like he's he's so unbothered that he's going to make a record about how in bothered he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's not the worst fake district on the album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a couple of others where you're like, okay, like why did you like if you weren't going to go full in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why, like you can't be holier than thou and then still do that right because that's what he's trying to present is like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm better than this stuff, but I'm going to give it like a little bit of a side dig and you don't do it good enough so it doesn't stick and people just think it's corny corny exactly so my number one is turning this mother out I love this song
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was really interesting being in New York and be like, why is this dude like dissing New York?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is this the beginning of the East Coast West Coast thing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's no, you know, no hard feelings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still about if I like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't go back to the MC Hammer well and listen to his music on a regular basis, but if I was to think of an MC Hammer song that I would play with no hesitation that would be first on the list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that just the intro track on the album?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it's really short.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like not a long song at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a, I mean, I don't necessarily remember the version on the album, but there's a whole like four minute track with the video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He might like remix it or something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that might be what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what's also interesting about listen to let's get it started is
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[SPEAKER_01]: you notice like the the James Brown stuff on it and I told you earlier in the week when when I was doing when I was listening to it, I was like, I think it's not actually James Brown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Eddie Murphy's in person named James Brown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's actually on one of the songs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was kind of funny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even remember, but there's like a, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: They they would actually have something at the end of one of the songs reminding you to turn to go to side two or whatever site and I it could be in that one but like there's a joke like those joke in the LL album to where he's where they're talking about go to side two or flip flip flip it over whatever there's one in this album to I don't remember if it's that song that he does that but I remember hearing like the James Brown stuff and going like
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's Eddie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it might even be from like raw actually.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I like it and then the yeah, then laughing like James or whatever I think is is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so the other thing about let's get us started is you can really hear
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[SPEAKER_01]: the low budgetness, which makes it a little bit grimey, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's a little you're like okay this isn't super glossy this isn't this is he's still doing a lot of the same things with the samples and stuff, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: the police hammer don't hurt him album is very deliberate it's so deliberate and this one not quite as deliberate and then I really like I was telling you like one of my favorite songs that I I on the edge of my top five is actually a song where hammer doesn't say anything except for they put me in the minutes that's like it that's it but as like a I'm sure for him
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[SPEAKER_01]: like this is an opportunity in his concert to just dance and not have to worry about having a microphone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I'm sure in, you know, they would just have like a dance number where he's just dancing his ass off in dance and hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you just have, they put me in the mix, you know, his own voice in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say, I mean, Hammer's cardio game must have been crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he didn't even look like he was in shape because people used to make fun of him because they thought he was fat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hannah?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and if you watch that you can't touch this video, he looks kind of chubby in that video compared to how he would have had who would look later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was thought Hannah was was pretty cut up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In, uh, I think he would show when he felt cut up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He definitely showed it off because he would wear the suspenders with no shirt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But no shirt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but the you can't touch this video, he's a little softer for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could even see it in his face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little, a little chunkier face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got through hammer week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try to put a playlist together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We say how that works out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back next week for Mike.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am WG.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See you when we see you peace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're back with our, maybe our hardest top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So far for show and it what's going to also be interesting is you're going to have a playlist that you got to put together for one MC Hammer and I almost want to give you a little bit of freedom to kind of maybe add Some maybe add some B and G B Oak town 357
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[SPEAKER_01]: What else, who else is kind of, you know, close in the hammer universe?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: because and put old episodes of hammerman in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know do something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, we'll do our top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This one will probably not take very long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I think mine, I think mine will be a little eye-opening because like we mentioned on the 50 for 50 episode on Hammer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he definitely was in my space a lot more because of growing up in the Bay Area than yours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's kick it off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to put you can't touch this at number five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if I didn't hear it 100,000 times in my lifetime, it's probably number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is the, it is the number one song that people associate with him, but I just heard it so many times that sometimes I listen to it and I go, I do want to listen to this again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but I still want it to be on this list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I put it at number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, my number five is actually the first single from please hammer don't hurt him, which was help the children.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a good message eight samples mercy mercy me by Marvin Gaye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It I don't know do that by the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like with a lot of this stuff hammer like made the record first and then ask questions later what's there how does it say and go ask for forgiveness not for permission and somehow it worked out for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it would work out that way for some rappers in the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not too much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, pretty much every song on this album except one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is except to or based around like very, very popular samples, like if that album had been made even a year or two later, it would have cost five times more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he wasn't being subtle about any of this either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like bomb squad creative sampling where you're like what's that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was basically wrapping over the instrumental of all of these records.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number four for me is do not pass me by from to legit to quit.
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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it is a fun song like I don't even I'm sure that it's like a rip off of like some famous gospel song that I'm not aware of but it is a very fun song the video is very fun and this is the lane of he's appealing to
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[SPEAKER_01]: people's parents with this song, I think, rather than the teenagers who were who were into him at some point, like he's like appealing to like grandma and grandpa and parents and you know, that type of thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought it was a successful song because you're like, okay,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is kind of the blueprint of the first album, and he was able to get another one in that that worked in that same way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when, as you say that, like an important thing to remember here, he said, Hammer was a little bit older.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, to a JIT came out in 1991, Hammer is 29, I think, at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, he's sort of like, he's sort of like, he's just a man, my man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He did worry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but he still wore glasses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I think just acknowledged that he was a little bit older, you know, I keep thinking of the LA line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My old gym teacher and supposed to wrap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can see like how he was sort of maybe going for an older audience than his contemporaries who were all a few years younger were going for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, my number four is pumping up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so like when I was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: 13, 14, most of my teenage years at night on Fridays and Saturdays, I'd hang out with my aunt and her husband and we were just like watch BET.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they had the only TV with cable in the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a satellite dish actually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we will watch videos and BET jumped
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my uncle became like a huge MC Hammer fan because he was a, you know, big dance or kind of guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had the let's get it started CD in the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And puppet up is just like, you know, it's, it's a song that fits hammer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's super danceable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His rhyming is not like embarrassing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just felt like that was his pocket right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So can we actually talk about, you just reminded me if something when you said your uncle was a dancer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The idea of the MC Hammer Dance that he called the Chinese typewriter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What made the typewriter Chinese?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there a difference between American type writers and Chinese type writers?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, other than the characters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, yeah, that's the part I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, what made this Chinese?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's just that because he was going so fast, it seemed like there were more keys on the keyboard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that meme of like the cat, like just like, you haven't just typing away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so yeah, that was kind of interesting to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The typewriter moved that he would do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this, this music of our youth, so many things are trendy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone wants to do, to see those people to wrap the songs, to act like them, to dance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember anybody trying to do the Chinese typewriter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was not really cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think he would ever, like it was corny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure there were some kids that tried to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, unfortunately, and this is only because they were hand me down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a pair of hammer pants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and wore them to school and got they got laughed at, like, horribly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but, you know, when you're 14 years old and you're not buying your own clothes and your wardrobe is limited, you do what you got to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I had balloon pants.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're very similar to the weightlifting pants from back in the day called the zoo baths.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The zoo baths?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the zoo baths weren't, they weren't tapered at the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like hammer pants were like billowy up top and in a, like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they weren't, they, they tapered down at the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were like, cuffed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, um, I, I wore some Zika Viraches to my eighth grade Zika Viraches to my eighth grade graduations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fashion choices we made, some of us made back in those days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad there's very little, if any photographic evidence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was Zika Viraches, and if I remember correctly, maybe like a satin, shiny satin
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[SPEAKER_01]: and a bowl of Thai.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the style, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was, you know, you were rocking your little like new kid's cheek.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but you know, you know, the one thing that people did do that was inspired by Hammer because I think he actually created this for Dion Sanders, but Dion Sanders is a little dance that he would do when he would return an interception or he'd return a punt for a touchdown where he kind of do that little dance in the end zone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Hammer's the one who came up with that so that he could do in the end zone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People did do that on the on the on the on the field for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: know what just popped into my head must be the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it must be the money via deon Sanders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, deon couldn't wrap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, not wrap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But some of the beats on that album are better than the beats on hammer's album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like hammer, like hammer, like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Gate, like he, there was probably a little bit of money put into that Dion album because I remember the, I'm trying to think of what the song was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was like a really fast song where it was kind of reminiscent of those songs in like the late 90s with where the BPMs were like so fast, you know, where that was the whole idea was how fast can we make this song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's some songs on that album that reminded me of that time frame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So number three for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is too legit to quit and it's just some memorable the video so memorable I didn't play it out like you can't touch this it couldn't have gotten played out it wasn't that big of a hit by comparison so every once in a while when I hear it on the radio you know when I'm scrolling through my serious xm and some one-stational play it I'm like okay I'll I'll let it let it go what station would that be I don't know some 90 station probably
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, so my number three actually came from funky headhunter is called don't stop and I don't know man I this was a time period when I watched our senior every night and our member hammer was on our senior Um, although now I'm like how would I have watched that episode it must have been right before I moved out
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I liked the song but the cassette single didn't think that I would be buying a hammer record in 1994, but I liked the song enough that, you know, that that I bought it Teddy Riley produced it, you know, produced pumps in the bump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's got the production is solid even if, you know, hammer still rhyming like hammer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there are some songs on the funky headhunter where he is answering these dudes who disc Tim like this three years before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, again, things have moved on so fast that I don't even think people even remembered that, you know, the the beefs that he's trying to overcome in 1994 on the funky headhunter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, I mean, 1994 my man is just in kidn play and, you know, nobody cares about kidn play in 1994.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he's
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, he's trying to point to the scoreboard as if like his career what had had had not changed since 1990.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I don't know, my guy like, like, bro, just some people and you broke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, number two for me is, let's get it started.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always been one of my favorite hammer tracks from from when I first found found out that there was a an album before you can't touch this came out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's it's the video is so budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if you've seen that video, so budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I actually like it better because of that like so we had a channel I want to say I think it was just a local channel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's called the actually was because it was called the California music channel And so they would play a lot of stuff that MTV wasn't gonna play because it wasn't on MTV's radar And I remember seeing the let's get it started video for the first time and I'm like man
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[SPEAKER_01]: This was only like a year before or two years before you can't touch this which is like super produced and like, you know, for MTV and you're like, what is this like budget budget video doing like so I will always get a kick out of it because you know, you wouldn't see that on MTV until much later and then they would play some of his old stuff, but you'd see that in California music channel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't touch this budget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get it started budget and like even lower.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might be like this My hands on him fit on the screen Yeah, man, so if you ever there's a parody record of let's get it started call somebody farted I just do remember this yes Bobby Jimmy in the critters And whenever I think of let's get it started that song is what pops up in my head first
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I was number one for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or number two, my number two is can't touch this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just because it's, you know, it is part of like history at this point, um, one of those songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, I've said this on a bunch of episodes in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where it's like, you don't really like this song, but you still know every single word, um, they'll know exactly when to do stop the drop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a stop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hammer time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Know it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number one is also from the funky head owner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was me holding on is as tightly as possible to the idea of of hammer and it's all good and it is it's a little bit of a Bob like, yeah, not your head to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a like a lightweight passive aggressive like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This stuff doesn't bother me, but it still bothers me and I'm gonna wrap about it, but it's not hard enough to actually really be like a diss track.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, I'm going to get a couple of shots in here, but I'm still not, you know, I'm not I'm not going to show that I'm fully upset about all of this stuff that's been talked about me in the past, but you know, he's, you know, he's pretend like he's going to beat people up and stuff, but I like this song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because I just like I really like the feeling and what what where I would use it as is I would get ready for baseball game because I'm already out of high school and I'm getting ready to to play in like adult leagues and some of my pro leagues and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I was still in like
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Palamino League or whatever, but I would use that song to kind of like get me in the right head space for, you know, preparing for a game, get my uniform on like kind of getting in that mood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I would use this song for a little while, too, would kind of be my go to song to just kind of get me in like the right Zen moment to play baseball interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can see that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the point you make is funny, it's like he's he's so unbothered that he's going to make a record about how in bothered he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's not the worst fake district on the album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a couple of others where you're like, okay, like why did you like if you weren't going to go full in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why, like you can't be holier than thou and then still do that right because that's what he's trying to present is like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm better than this stuff, but I'm going to give it like a little bit of a side dig and you don't do it good enough so it doesn't stick and people just think it's corny corny exactly so my number one is turning this mother out I love this song
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was really interesting being in New York and be like, why is this dude like dissing New York?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is this the beginning of the East Coast West Coast thing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's no, you know, no hard feelings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still about if I like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't go back to the MC Hammer well and listen to his music on a regular basis, but if I was to think of an MC Hammer song that I would play with no hesitation that would be first on the list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that just the intro track on the album?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it's really short.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like not a long song at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a, I mean, I don't necessarily remember the version on the album, but there's a whole like four minute track with the video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He might like remix it or something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that might be what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what's also interesting about listen to let's get it started is
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[SPEAKER_01]: you notice like the the James Brown stuff on it and I told you earlier in the week when when I was doing when I was listening to it, I was like, I think it's not actually James Brown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Eddie Murphy's in person named James Brown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's actually on one of the songs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was kind of funny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even remember, but there's like a, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: They they would actually have something at the end of one of the songs reminding you to turn to go to side two or whatever site and I it could be in that one but like there's a joke like those joke in the LL album to where he's where they're talking about go to side two or flip flip flip it over whatever there's one in this album to I don't remember if it's that song that he does that but I remember hearing like the James Brown stuff and going like
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's Eddie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it might even be from like raw actually.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I like it and then the yeah, then laughing like James or whatever I think is is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so the other thing about let's get us started is you can really hear
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[SPEAKER_01]: the low budgetness, which makes it a little bit grimey, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's a little you're like okay this isn't super glossy this isn't this is he's still doing a lot of the same things with the samples and stuff, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: the police hammer don't hurt him album is very deliberate it's so deliberate and this one not quite as deliberate and then I really like I was telling you like one of my favorite songs that I I on the edge of my top five is actually a song where hammer doesn't say anything except for they put me in the minutes that's like it that's it but as like a I'm sure for him
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[SPEAKER_01]: like this is an opportunity in his concert to just dance and not have to worry about having a microphone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I'm sure in, you know, they would just have like a dance number where he's just dancing his ass off in dance and hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you just have, they put me in the mix, you know, his own voice in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say, I mean, Hammer's cardio game must have been crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he didn't even look like he was in shape because people used to make fun of him because they thought he was fat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hannah?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and if you watch that you can't touch this video, he looks kind of chubby in that video compared to how he would have had who would look later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was thought Hannah was was pretty cut up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In, uh, I think he would show when he felt cut up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He definitely showed it off because he would wear the suspenders with no shirt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But no shirt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but the you can't touch this video, he's a little softer for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could even see it in his face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little, a little chunkier face.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got through hammer week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try to put a playlist together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We say how that works out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is it from here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back next week for Mike.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am WG.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See you when we see you peace.