MC Hammer has little time for the raw hip-hop sounds from the streets of New York and Los Angeles and makes the new music genre family-friendly by adding neat lyrics and cheerful beats.

For his first hit U Can't Touch This he recycles the funk song Super Freak by Rick James. This single is number 1 for weeks in 1990. In the meantime, children hear MC Hammer in the cinemas with This Is What We Do from the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . The first rap song to reach number one in Great Britain also comes from this film: Turtle Power by Partners In Kryme. U Can't Touch This is the second a few weeks later.