30 Years Later: Remembering Mc Hammer’s Untouchable Hit–and Everything That’s Happened Since
Even if you never once slid on a pair of parachute pants—you know the words: You can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh) You can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh) Break it down (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh) (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh) But would it cause you to stop (hammer time) in your tracks to learn that Mc Hammer's seminal track came out exactly 30 years ago? Stanley Kirk Burrell was able to avoid the more detrimental influences roaming his East Oakland neighborhood thanks to his mom, a secretary and matriarch of eight kids.
As he put it to Maria Shriver in a 1990 interview, "I know how hard she worked to provide for...
