11/21/2023 0 Comments 2 legit 2 quit cover![]() We are then taken to a concert where everyone is expecting Hammer to show up. He tells us we must have our information wrong. For what it's worth, Danny Glover refuses to believe that Hammer quit. Four young men identified only as " The Boys" (I'm not looking it up) also mourn Hammer quitting. R&B singer Ralph Tresvant has a long, bizarre monolog about MC Hammer being a cyborg. This goes on for a very long time and occasionally veers into the surreal. ![]() We then go into a sequence featuring Belushi plus a bunch of stars like Danny Glover and Capital/EMI CEO Joe Smith doing some ad-libbed bits about Hammer quitting the something. The video starts out with a news report - Jim Belushi tells us that MC Hammer has quit. It never happened, of course, but knowing that makes this makes the video make more sense. He decided that he wanted to challenge Michael Jackson to a dance off. Hammer certainly wasn't discounting himself at this stage of his career. People were making video games into feature films. Large-scale videos like " Black Or White" were becoming the thing to do. You can see why, around this time, Hammer felt a video of this scope might be necessary. Anyone writing off Hammer as a one hit wonder is ignoring the cold stare of history. Reportedly, MC Hammer and Michael Jackson were friends, and sometimes seen as competing at the same level around that time period. "2 Legit 2 Quit" was the first single off of his third album. In 2014 we tend to think of MC Hammer as a punch line, but in the early 1990s, MC Hammer was an extremely popular act. Let's start with the time and place that this video happened.
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