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Thread started 05/30/17 3:45pm

MickyDolenz

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Ralph Tresvant says MC Hammer copied "Hammer Pants" from New Edition

I'm listening to Ralph's radio show right now (https://www.thebassradio.com) and a few minutes ago said that Hammer toured with NE in the 1980s, and Hammer asked them could he use that pants style. Ralph said he had no problem with it, NE had lots of different styles. Hammer got the credit for those pants because his career blew up big after he started wearing them. Ralph basically said that the person who makes something popular gets the credit, not necessarily the person who did it first. Now I think about it, New Edition was wearing that in the NE Heartbreak video, which was a year before U Can't Touch This. If you watch Hammer's earlier videos, he wasn't wearing the "Hammer Pants".

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #1 posted 05/30/17 3:54pm

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No matter who wore them first, Hammer obvious made them more popular. I had a pair! No shame. haha (They were comfortable as fuck.)

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Reply #2 posted 05/30/17 5:18pm

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Don't hurt 'em, Hammer! lol

Image result for mc hammer pants gif

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Reply #3 posted 05/30/17 5:44pm

MickyDolenz

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purplethunder3121 said:

Don't hurt 'em, Hammer! lol

Image result for mc hammer pants gif

http://i.giphy.com/YYjy0n1Dp7o5O.gif

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #4 posted 05/30/17 8:51pm

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I thought he copied it from Bobby Brown? eg. My Prerogative live (1989)

[Edited 5/30/17 20:53pm]

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Reply #5 posted 05/31/17 7:22am

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MickyDolenz said:

I'm listening to Ralph's radio show right now (https://www.thebassradio.com) and a few minutes ago said that Hammer toured with NE in the 1980s, and Hammer asked them could he use that pants style. Ralph said he had no problem with it, NE had lots of different styles. Hammer got the credit for those pants because his career blew up big after he started wearing them. Ralph basically said that the person who makes something popular gets the credit, not necessarily the person who did it first. Now I think about it, New Edition was wearing that in the NE Heartbreak video, which was a year before U Can't Touch This. If you watch Hammer's earlier videos, he wasn't wearing the "Hammer Pants".

Well these brothers were not the most business savy fellas in the business. They did not even know they had no recording contract with MCA for a quite a while and Ralph and Johnny only got around to copy righting the name New Edition a few years ago.

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Reply #6 posted 05/31/17 7:40am

mjscarousal

purplethunder3121 said:

Don't hurt 'em, Hammer! lol

Image result for mc hammer pants gif

lol lol lol

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Reply #7 posted 05/31/17 8:29am

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True even the color damn

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Reply #8 posted 06/01/17 11:38am

JabarR74

Well six years ago, these guys brought Hammer pants back, in another way

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Reply #9 posted 06/01/17 11:48am

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JabarR74 said:

Well six years ago, these guys brought Hammer pants back, in another way

Brought them back to where? Because I've never heard of this group. lol

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #10 posted 06/01/17 4:05pm

JabarR74

MickyDolenz said:

JabarR74 said:

Well six years ago, these guys brought Hammer pants back, in another way

Brought them back to where? Because I've never heard of this group. lol

Have you ever even watched America's Best Dance Crew before?

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Reply #11 posted 06/01/17 4:26pm

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JabarR74 said:

Have you ever even watched America's Best Dance Crew before?

Haven't heard of that either.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #12 posted 06/01/17 8:07pm

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Reply #13 posted 06/06/17 6:25pm

TonyVanDam

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THREAD SUBTITLE: The Baggy Pants War [1988-91]! lol

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Reply #14 posted 06/06/17 7:37pm

liljojo

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No matter who wore them first, Hammer obvious made them more popular. I had a pair! No shame. haha (They were comfortable as fuck.)


I had 3 pairs lol purple, aqua blue & black, and black lol

I was the man in school with those pants and the joke also lol

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Reply #15 posted 06/24/17 1:43pm

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Yesterday Ralph mentioned appearing on the BET Awards Sunday. He also said something about New Edition planning on working with Babyface.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #16 posted 06/28/17 9:10pm

RJOrion

id be embarrassed to take credit for them ugly shits...Ralph couldve/shouldve kept that to himself

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Reply #17 posted 07/05/17 6:13pm

MickyDolenz

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Someone recently posted this 1992 performance on Arsenio Hall Show, which also features an interview with Jam & Lewis. The video quality is not that good, looks like they filmed the TV with a phone or something


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #18 posted 07/08/17 1:35am

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MickyDolenz said:

Someone recently posted this 1992 performance on Arsenio Hall Show, which also features an interview with Jam & Lewis. The video quality is not that good, looks like they filmed the TV with a phone or something




Thry had phones that could film in 1992?? eek
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Reply #19 posted 07/08/17 9:41am

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nextedition said:

They had phones that could film in 1992?? eek

No, apparently they have it on videotape and the poster played it and filmed the TV with a phone. I've seen several Youtube videos where people filmed TV shows with a phone or camcorder, usually they're jerky or you can hear people in the background talking over the footage. Some people still have VCRs like my mom. She has never owned a DVD player or a CD player either. She still buys cassettes and has a tape player in her car. I have a VCR too but it doesn't work and it's been in storage for years. I still have the VHS tapes but haven't watched them since it broke and there's things that have never made it to DVD and are out of print and also stuff I've recorded. Stuff like the Sun City album documentary (Little Steven, Run DMC, Miles Davis, etc.), Michael Jackson The Legend Continues, music video compilations by different acts, etc.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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