U Can't Touch This

Album: Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (1990)
Charted: 3 8
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  • Punctuation makes all the difference. When "Stop. Hammer Time" becomes "Stop Hammer Time," it's a great slogan for those little strips that stick to your wall for hanging small objects. Hammer, a prolific pitchman who has also sold Starburst and Nationwide Insurance, appeared in TV spots for the product, where we learn that "Hammer hates nails."

Comments: 14

  • Rp SenftThis should also be on the list of songs more popular while COVID is still raging.
  • Ricardo from Mexico CityThis song Is also a reference for jokes in an episode of the Netflix Lucifer where a guy Is killed with a hamner and the forence agent Is happy because she at last can tell the jokes hamner Time...u cant touch this to the other detectives
  • Cewatson from Omaha, NebraskaThe parody by "Weird Al" is called, "I Can't Watch This".
  • Reynold from Fremont, CaRey: I have the original copy cassette of YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS recorded live at studio 86' Does anyone willing to buy it!!!
  • Esskayess from Dallas, TxA hilarious spoof of this one called "Don't Touch That!" was done by Weird Al and others.
  • Scott from Reading, Pato everybody who thinks this song sucks,U CAN'T TOUCH THIS SUCKA
  • Marissa from Akron, OhKaitlin: I love the family guy version too, my friend has it as a ringtone on his phone. This song is pretty good but I have to say hammer has a better song: "Too Legit to Quit."
  • John from Nashville, TnRick James was going to sick his lawyers on Hammer until he heard the song. He absolutely loved it and said "never mind."
  • Bertrand from Paris, FranceThe importance of M.C. Hammer to pop music history is that he proved without a doubt that rap could be as effortlessly entertaining as any other musical genre. "U Can't Touch This" is little more than Hammer's simple rap in place of Rick James' "Super Freak" vocals, but the image of Hammer working the crowd in his oversized parachute pants is one of the most memorable entertainment images of 1990.
  • Joe from Bellingham, Waobviously sampled from rick james, its still really catchy. it's too bad about hammer losing his money, i hear he's a preacher now.
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandSuperfreak's better but this is a good song
  • Pete from Nowra, Australiatalk about a can't keep still song...last time i heard this i was jumping up and down, puching the air, doin the mooves , shaking my wild thing.. just gettin it on .......all the people on the bus gave me funny looks..don't know why..i was just gettin' jiggy with it
  • Brandy from Seattle, WaI like the song in the beginning, but as the song goes on I get really bored really fast. It's a good dance or workout song though.
  • Kaitlin from Cornwall, OntThis honestly has to be one of the most annoying songs in the world. The only real good part of the video were the parachute pants. Always good for a laugh. I love it! I also love the Family Guy parody of it... "Can't Touch Me" Its great. ^_^
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