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Fact #62962

When:

25041990

Short story:

Rapper M C Hammer samples the riff from Rick James's 1981 song Super Freak for his song U Can't Touch This. James will subsequently sue him and win a $30m settlement.

Full article:

M C Hammer : I was on an airport runway. I started humming Super Freak and just popped in, ‘You can’t touch this.’ It was just like that.
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