PSY-MC Hammer mash-up at AMAs

This performance closed this week's American  Music Awards. Current lord of the Multipipe Korean rapper PSY has amassed something like 779 million views with his Gangnam Style video.

So who better to team up with on his coming-out performance than the man who did the equivalent thing 20 years ago, MC Hammer!

In 1991, Hammer's U Can't Touch This – featuring the catchphrase "Stop! Hammer time!" – won him best R&B song and Best Rap Solo performance at the Grammys, and drove sales of his album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em to 18 million.

Subsequently the track Too Legit To Quit of the album of the same name did less well, but still helped its parent album to sales of 5 million. That was in 1991, and that was the last heard of the rapper MC Hammer, aka Hammer, aka Stanley Kirk Burrell. Until the night of 19 November 2012.

In other news, the video of Too Legit To Quit now sits at 228 000 views on YouTube. So much for cross-promotion. PSY probably picked Hammer for the joint for a bit of nostalgia value, and to give the anglo audience something to sing along to besides "Hey sexy lady".

That might be the last remaining dollop of pop-culture polish required to take his item of musical transcendence beyond a billion YouTube views and sear it into the subconscious of every connected human on earth.

This guy might actually be a genius. PSY, that is, not Hammer.

PSY – Gangnam Style

We just organised a slot DJing on digital radio station EuroTrashMusic. The radio version of Hagen's House will be on Wednesday from 4pm-6pm. While we were there at EuroTrash talking kak with station king Craig, he played us this. So, in celebration of our inevitable radio fame, may we present this freaky video of Gangnam Style by Korean rapper PSY. At last count it had 400 million views, which makes it the most viewed video in the history of YouTube! That makes it the most popular K-pop video in history. It's also the most awesome thing we've seen today.




This dude's clearly got some budget behind him. Just FYI, Gangnam is a trendy, affluent district of Seoul in South Korea and the chorus, "Oppan Gangnam style" means, "Your boy is rocking it Gangnam style".