![]() What exactly he was going to quit (music? dancing? wearing balloon-sized pants?) isn’t quite obvious, but ends up being beside the point given the scale of the production. While a shortened version of the video was the one to most commonly air, the full-length version lasts nearly 15 minutes and features a bizarre plot in which the rapper visits a bethroned James Brown before responding in full force to rumors that he was indeed, considering quitting. It’s hard to imagine any artist or record company agreeing to such a large scale production today, but with MTV in full swing, MC Hammer decided to go all out on the video for the first single and title track from his third album. It was the hardest shoot I ever did in my life.” ![]() ![]() We would shoot an 18 hour day and take two days off. “We were doing the ‘Addams Family Groove’ at the same time,” director Rupert Wainwright told For The Win. “It was an 18 day shoot, but we didn’t shoot it in 18 days. MC Hammer – 2 Legit 2 Quit (1991) from Golden Era Videos on Vimeo. What do James Brown, Jose Canseco, Jim Belushi, Jerry Glanville, Eazy-E, Isiah Thomas and Milli Vanilli all have in common? In 1991, they all appeared in one of the biggest music video spectacles of all time.įor this week’s edition of “Throwback Thursday,” we look back at MC Hammer’s “2 Legit 2 Quit” video, which featured one of the most impressive rosters of celebrity and athlete cameos in Hollywood history.
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