Date: 1981
Release: Motown #37463-5405-2
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I’ll never forgive MC Hammer for tampering with Rick James’s “Super Freak.” I’m not a Hammer hater. His debut remains in my CD changer. But I hate “U Can’t Touch This.” Hammer’s reworking of Rick James’s seminal “Super Freak” stripped the song of its ghetto edge, replacing Rick’s whooping vocals with Hammer’s jumbled, watered down raps. It doesn’t matter that “U Can’t Touch This” broke sales records, that song simply can’t touch the original. “Super Freak” appears on James’ 1981 masterwork, Street Songs, which Motown Records has recently reissued in an expanded package, which includes 12″ mixes of “Super Freak” and “Give It To Me Baby,” as well as an additional CD’s worth of material from Rick’s 1981 performance at the Long Beach Arena.
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