Prince's 'When Doves Cry' for 'Pray' and 'Soft and Wet' for 'She's Soft and Wet', The Chi-Lites' 'Have You Seen Her?' for 'Have You Seen Her?', The Jackson 5's 'Dancing Machine' for 'Dancin' Machine', Marvin Gaye's 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)' for 'Help the Children' (Ah-ha! You expected 'Save the Children', didn't you?) and George Clinton's oft-sampled 'Atomic Dog' for 'Pumps and a Bump'.'U Can't Touch This' sampled the main riff from 'Super Freak' by Rick James.

Sampled Up: Most of Hammer's songs relied on what could be charitably described as less than creative sampling choices.

This is exceptionally noticeable in '2 Legit 2 Quit', in which the chorus of 'Too legit, too legit to quit' is played over the final two and a half minutes of the song without any lyrics from Hammer this is fine in the music video, where there was a ton of athlete cameos popping up in the meantime, but it can drone on for someone listening to the single on its own. This usually happened as his music videos were very long, and the album versions usually matched that length as opposed to being trimmed.

Padding: In addition to the constant sampling as opposed to rapping to original beats, the other criticism laid heavily on Hammer was the constant repetition of his songs' choruses.

Hammer eventually did his own buttocks-themed song with 'Pumps and a Bump' on The Funky Headhunter. You're looking for 'Baby Got Back' by Sir Mix-A-Lot.

Misattributed Song: He never recorded a song titled 'I Like Big Butts'.

Memetic Mutation: 'Stop! Hammer Time!' Over time, this meme went from being spoken to being seen, as Stop signs can still be seen to this day with 'HAMMER TIME' stamped on there either as graffiti, as an embossing or as a bumper sticker.

This resulted in an album that appealed to no one, and is considered one of the key factors of his career's demise. Audience-Alienating Era: The Funky Headhunter, in which Hammer responded to the many shots taken at him by from the newly-popular Gangsta Rap school by basically saying, 'Hey, I'm down with this Darker and Edgier thing, too!' While it sold at first, it didn't impress the gangsta crowd one bit, and his fans who did buy it were completely turned off by the usually family-friendly rapper's darker turn.Adaptation Displacement: The only reason many younger people ever heard of Rick James' 'Super Freak' was because of the lawsuit Rick James filed against MC Hammer for the use of the song's Epic Riff.

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