Editing MC Hammer (section)

=== ''Let's Get It Started'' (1988) ===
{{Main|Let's Get It Started (album)}}

Once signed to [[Capitol Records]], Hammer re-issued his first record (a revised version of ''[[Feel My Power]]'') with additional tracks added, which sold over two million copies. "Pump It Up" (also performed during ''[[Showtime at the Apollo]]'' on September 16, 1989),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0612962/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312202245/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0612962/|url-status=dead|title=Episode dated 16 September 1989|archive-date=March 12, 2016|website=IMDb|access-date=October 10, 2019}}</ref> "Turn This Mutha Out", "Let's Get It Started" and "They Put Me in the Mix" were the most popular singles from this album (which all charted). Not entirely satisfied with this first [[multi-platinum]] success, Hammer's music underwent a metamorphosis, shifting from the standard rap format. "I decided the next album would be more musical," he said at the time. Purists chastised him for being more dancer than rapper. Sitting in a leopard-print bodysuit before a concert, he defended his style: "People were ready for something different from the traditional rap style. The fact that the record has reached this level indicates the genre is growing."<ref name="Ebony"/>

Hammer was close friends with [[Arsenio Hall]] (as well as a then-unknown teen named [[Vanilla Ice]], [[#DanceJamtheMusic (2008–2009)|despite later rumors]] that there was a "beef" between the two rappers which was addressed during the height of both their careers on Hall's show, and whom he would later reunite with in a 2009 concert in [[Salt Lake City]], Utah),<ref>{{cite web|title=Video of MC Hammer |url=http://vodpod.com/watch/567233-arsenio-hall-turns-54-today-dog-pound-still-woofing |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718041646/http://vodpod.com/watch/567233-arsenio-hall-turns-54-today-dog-pound-still-woofing |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 18, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="newsweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/188027 |title=MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice Rock Utah |website=Newsweek.com |date=March 16, 2009 |access-date=March 31, 2010}}</ref> and as such, Hammer was first invited to perform the song "[[U Can't Touch This]]", prior to its release, on ''[[The Arsenio Hall Show]]'' in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-ZIB4GB8Olss/mc_hammer_u_cant_touch_this_live_arsenio_hall/ |title=MC Hammer – U Can't Touch This (Live @ Arsenio Hall) – Video |website=Metacafe.com |access-date=March 31, 2010 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629001035/http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-ZIB4GB8Olss/mc_hammer_u_cant_touch_this_live_arsenio_hall/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also performed "[[Dancing Machine#Samples and cover versions|Dancing Machine]]" which later appeared in the ''[[Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em#Film|Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie]]'' (1990).

Hammer used some of the proceeds from this album to install a rolling [[recording studio]] in the back of his [[tour bus]], where Hammer recorded much of his second album.<ref name="answers1"/> In 1989, Hammer was featured on "You've Got Me Dancing" with [[Glen Goldsmith]], which appeared on Goldsmith's album ''Don't Turn This Groove Around'' via [[RCA Records]]. The track was Hammer's first release in the [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]. He also appeared in Glen Goldsmith's [[music video]] for this song. The single failed to chart. During this period, Hammer formed the rap group [[Oaktown's 3.5.7]], releasing the No. 9 single "[[Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (Oaktown's 357 song)|Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!]]" from the album ''[[Wild & Loose]]'' (1989).