MC Hammer: pumps in a bump 1 & 2!!!

this is the "dirty" version (MTV would not play it)- it was directed by the dude named Scott Kalvert who would go make The Basketball Diaries with Leo Dicaprio. Needless to say, these were two weird ass videos to work on (they just cut two videos out and did a reshoot at a stage for the clean version). We shot this at Hammer's 20 million dollar house in Fremont California; think "black Graceland" - the daytime stuff around the pool with the ladies was insane. I met Evander Holyfield on this shoot. Hammer's career was going into the shitter and he was trying to "refashion" his image as a bad-ass (dig the obvious Dr. Dre ripoff riff in the background of the song). Needless to say, this did not help Hammer's career and he soon filed for bankruptcy and lost the house. This was another Terry Power's gig and there were just a zillion "pimps and hos" getting their groove on.


clean version: