![]() Everyone’s getting dressed in these choir robes and I see this guy ambling around who looks totally out of it,” he said. “We were shooting ‘Pray’ on this hill in LA in the middle of nowhere. None of the athletes made it on to the Los Angeles based set for this production, but Wainwright vividly recalls boxer Evander Holyfield’s appearance at the video shoot for the “Pray” single a year earlier. Isiah Thomas might be left off the Dream Team the following year, but he made the cut in the video, along with fellow NBA All-Stars David Robinson and Chris Mullin. Other pro football players to appear included Jerry Rice, Roger Craig and Ronnie Lott.īaseball was well represented too, with Roger Clemens, Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco and Minnesota Twins outfielder Kirby Puckett making appearances. The final athlete roster proved to be an impressive who’s who of the sports world from that era. The NFL was well-represented by Atlanta Falcons stars Deion Sanders and Andre Rison as well as the team’s head coach Jerry Glanville. “We had a unit that traveled around America just filming any athlete who would say yes and teaching them the ‘2 Legit, 2 Legit to Quit. Utilizing Hammer’s sports connections – he used to be a batboy for the Oakland A’s as a kid and was friendly was a number of athletes – Wainwright sent a crew out around the country to capture anyone from Roger Clemens to Rickey Henderson to Jerry Glanville and bring the footage back for inclusion into the video. The athlete cameos were actually one of the least costly parts of that equation. ![]() ![]() That would be about a $6 million video shoot in today’s environment. and Too Short before graduating to feature films including Stigmata and The Fog, says that the total budget for “2 Legit 2 Quit” came in around $3.5 million. The British-born director, who also helmed videos for N.W.A. After the massive success of Hammer’s second album, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, the stakes were certainly raised. One of the first videos Wainwright did with Hammer, 1988’s “Turn This Mutha Out,” was done on a $25,000 budget. What exactly he was going to quit (music? dancing? wearing balloon-sized pants?) isn’t quite obvious, but ends up being beside the point given the scale of the production. While a shortened version of the video was the one to most commonly air, the full-length version lasts nearly 15 minutes and features a bizarre plot in which the rapper visits a bethroned James Brown before responding in full force to rumors that he was indeed, considering quitting. It’s hard to imagine any artist or record company agreeing to such a large scale production today, but with MTV in full swing, MC Hammer decided to go all out on the video for the first single and title track from his third album. It was the hardest shoot I ever did in my life.” We would shoot an 18 hour day and take two days off. “We were doing the ‘Addams Family Groove’ at the same time,” director Rupert Wainwright told For The Win. “It was an 18 day shoot, but we didn’t shoot it in 18 days. MC Hammer – 2 Legit 2 Quit (1991) from Golden Era Videos on Vimeo. What do James Brown, Jose Canseco, Jim Belushi, Jerry Glanville, Eazy-E, Isiah Thomas and Milli Vanilli all have in common? In 1991, they all appeared in one of the biggest music video spectacles of all time.įor this week’s edition of “Throwback Thursday,” we look back at MC Hammer’s “2 Legit 2 Quit” video, which featured one of the most impressive rosters of celebrity and athlete cameos in Hollywood history.
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