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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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No matter who wore them first, Hammer obvious made them more popular. I had a pair! No shame. haha (They were comfortable as fuck.) If you have a problem with me, text me. If you don't have my number, you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me. | |
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Don't hurt 'em, Hammer! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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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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Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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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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True even the color damn Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records. | |
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Well six years ago, these guys brought Hammer pants back, in another way
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Brought them back to where? Because I've never heard of this group. 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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Have you ever even watched America's Best Dance Crew before? | |
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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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k "Climb in my fur." | |
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THREAD SUBTITLE: The Baggy Pants War [1988-91]! | |
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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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id be embarrassed to take credit for them ugly shits...Ralph couldve/shouldve kept that to himself | |
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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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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?? ![]() | |
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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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