“Pretty soon rap will be 50 years old…” 2023. Happy 50th birthday hip hop!

The commercials really help with nostalgia. All I can remember is coming home from school and putting MTV on. Good ol days 👌🏻

I'm ok with the commercials being left in, it sorta takes you back to a time before tv died.

this is the MTV only 90s kids would know about :,(

I love the fact they have the commercials in it man really takes you back

Everybody was so young back in 01 🔥🔥🔥, miss these days.

Man man man I miss them days.

Damn, that quote sent chills up my spine!..."Is art imitating life, or is life imitating art!"...Things dont change, smh 💯💯💯

What emeniem said about Mc Hammer and vanilla ice is exactly how I feel about him and his music 🤷🏾‍♂️

Talk trash about Hammer but he brought high energy to any live show and video, plus hit's on top of hit's I still have his first CD tucked in my 2000 plus CD collection 💯💪😎

Damn the good old days literally 😫🥰

No way watching a young sway in the morning is crazy, especially cause I’m only 26. So I never really knew about sway back in the day since my older brother went to the NAVY & my older sisters were more into punk. This is so sick to be able to watch for a “first time”

The irony with Eminem is that the same demographic that liked Hammer and Vanilla ice, is the same contemporary demographic that like his music, Eminem is the face of acceptable modern mainstream rap, just like Hammer and Vanilla Ice

Listening to the predictions of the future of hip hop is heartwarming

Limp BIzkit giving props to ATCQ made me smile R.I.P. Phife

That’s crazy , Nelly hit it in the money. Hip hop Will be 50 years old , looking back like …. It’s 50 now 2023 !!!

So proud Sway and Mc Hammer are from Oakland 😁

His image and persona didn't reflect it, but Hammer was a REAL gangster. Nobody was tryina mess with him and his entourage. He was powerful entity in the Bay back then.

Man I haven't seen this in years. I hope you got more of this

Sway has really came a long way..... Wow

Oh y’all left the commercials in huh ?!?! It makes me feel old but I love the nostalgia 🫶🏽

Seeing Puff talking about Biggie's murder is like seeing Lee Harvey Oswald talking about JFK's assassination

MAKE HIP HOP 90s AGAIN

It’s a damn shame what became of MTV

I remember recording this on VHS when it first came on. Nostalgia. I miss when MTV was actually good.

30:57 is so cool cuz Nelly went platinum with Tim McGraw 3 years later in ‘04. Now, you got Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus 11x platinum 17 years later. Ain’t that something??

Yoo that Carmen commercial answered a big question in my life. I kept wondering about a big hip hop movie with Bow Wow and Beyoncé. I remember seeing the commercials and going to bed as soon as it came on. Doesn’t look as cool as I remember tho lol

This was cool- enjoyed every mile and minute of memory lane...💕❣💕❣💕❣

Thanks so much for sharing this!!!

Thank you for keeping the throwback commercials in there though lololol

If all these great artists on this show only knew how the genre would slowly decline. This was the peak I believe but hopefully hip hop, real hip hop, will peak again.

They laughed at Hammer, then did what he did: ENDORSEMENTS, CEREALS ETC

This video takes me back to being 18 years old about to graduate high school when this initially aired on MTV in the late spring of 2001.

This is real OG hip hop/rap

the advertising :D :D

I came down to see comments nd over half of y’all dig’n the commercials like me, real spill after school vibes, wit BET nd MTV 98-02 instant nostalgically refreshing, 90’s dec was too lit🔥

After that Nelly video.. i had to start listening to underground hip hop, cause i knew it was all downhill from there..., coincidentally that early 2000s era of underground hip hop was exquisite

Damn I love this it bring back soooo much memories…the commercials tho💪🏽💯🙌🏽🗽🔥

People stayed mad at Hammer. I loved Hammer. 😂 I respect him today, too. Oaktown 357 was our City Girls.

1:15 is when I start laughing 😂😂😂

2:47 The famous Andre 3000 "Run Up on Hammer" quote.

ATCQ forever...RIP Phife

AWESOME SAUCE!👏 THANKS reelblack. 🏆

Wow I remember watching this special back in the day

11:37 Yoooo, I used to love that commercial just because of the music 😂😂🤣!!. Damn that just brought me way back

Daaaaamn the commercials ugh! I miss tv I miss everything lmao

My mother had a pair of beige hammer pants when I was younger😂

I know who needs to appreciate day by day what we live but it's only me who recent a nostalia each time I watch a documentary on the 80s/90s (time of my adolescence) the clothes are special grain in each video documentary films grain vhs the music the films the atmosphere of the cities of the 80s/90s I find that this period over 20 years was unique.The nyc of the 80s and 90s with the Los Angeles of the 90s it was wow even if the 90s; LA from 90 to 93 it was "the gangs" "The killings" the "drives by" . mac arthur park was the reputation as the most hardcore points in the US the 80s and 90s. the 80s/90s years really was fresh clearly

Here we go !

It'z funny how back in DA REEL DAYZ,We used to watch MTV! ON A REEL TV HOMIE! 😆😂🤣😆😅

Best time to be a hip hoping G!!!

I watched this when it came out. 80s baby, last of a dying breed

People forget about Blondie's rapture song with Fab five freddy

Da Brat predicted "Old Town Road"

Great Documentary🔥👏

MEMORIES!!!! & EVE 😘😘 was my lil boo “PitBull In A Skirt” ❤Mane she was Gorgeous her spirit shines through her… RIP to DMX Always a Real 1 🙏🏾

Happy 50 years hip hop!!!

'Well i'll be damned.. We are here in ja-Japan and Chinatown' gotta love ODB

Damn watching this shit in 2023 is crazy. Da brat predicting to see a hiphop country song (Oldtown road) and we just had Hiphop celebrate it’s 50th birthday like Nelly said. And u definitely dont have to go “all the wayyyy over there” in the record store like Dre said, cause ain’t no damn record store to go to no more 😂. But they did move up tho, crazy still.

Ah a place to learn all missed while raising children.😉☺️💯❤️🌹🙏🕯️ Someone probably laughed 🤣 when I pondered where to look .😉🤔😂🌹 Love the reference to "Gumbo" Yes! MC Hammer must have been before 1993 cause I remember him clearly..even as a stroke patient..🤔💯😉

Hammer did it his way, much respect . And no Brat, nobody wore Hammer pants but him.

Girl look Salt face at 13:48..LMAO

I wish they'd re-release allllll of the old MTV docs and True Life too

When MTV cared about music

RIP JMJ

We're celebrating 50 yrs now. Incredible

😂 this my era

Good ole days when the M IN MTV stood for Actually Music...😢😢🥀🥀🥀

This supposed 'documentary" about rap in the 90's jumps from 1990/91 to 1996/97 in the first 5 minutes. Yeah, because there was NOTHING going on in hip hop between MC Hammer's big breakthrough in 1990 and Busta Rhymes' break in '96. Does anyone still consider MTV a considerable source?

dont know why people say theres no beef in songs , they really do beef yoo

Make HipHop great again!!! I remember this when it was new. Eminem hating on Hammer, hammer was a beast

15 years later country/hip hop finally became a thing

the commercials of those times were better

*I fuck with the 90's & early 00's hard*

i was really 3 when this came out

Man I experience people playing music of Busta Rhymes Woo Hah got you all in check,,my childhood years of the 90s.

It seems all 17 of MC Hammer fans are in this comment section....

nice1 thx

As M.C. Hammer said in his most famous of hip-hop songs, 'Whoa, whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa---HAMMER TIME!"

These commercials are tripping me the fuck out .I remember when Carmen debuted. Crazy

Before walk this way, a lot of people across America didn’t even understand what rap was. But MC Hammer and Wild Thing put rap on the Radio. Even Hot 97 in New York didn’t play any rap until those songs broke. Radio was ridiculously slow to play rap. Hammer deserves credit for that alone.

What's the song on anti-drug commercial 27:07?

Classic vintage footage

This is when MTV was good or decent. But they showed a lot of commercials.

Love sway ...

memories

What's the name of the song at the end?

Commercials and all lol wow💯♥️👏🏾

1990 was when Hip Hop really started taking off and becoming really good imo... LL Cool J was one of the first...🎛📻📼📺💲📈🎵🎶🎵🎤🎧🎛

The commercials though

A mixture of 80s n 90s EARLY TETHER ANCHORS👈🏾👉🏾 and GREAT FBA🏹✊🏾 HIPHOP CREATORS💯💯💯👍🏾m

I ❤️ this so much. 😮. I was so young 👶, 👦 .

People can call Hammer wack all they want but Hammer was a dancing fool? If Chris Brown was around back then not even him wasn’t out dancing Hammer?

all them hype william checks booooiii🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤒

I think Da Brat predicted the song Old Town Road haha

Many thanks to Mr Hype Williams

90s groove

11:37 - lovely will barras illustrated volkswagen spot

20 Years Of Hiphop Fast Forward We celebratin HIPHOP 50Th

U.S MTV was always sooooo much better than UK MTV, was dope when they started showing the U.S shows on MTV, MTV Base and MTV2