MC Hammer/YMMV

• Adaptation Displacement: The only reason the majority of music-lovers ever heard of Rick James' "Super Freak" was because of the lawsuit Rick James filed against MC Hammer for the use of the song's Epic Riff.
• Ear Worm: "U Can't Touch This" and "2 Legit 2 Quit"
• Memetic Mutation: Stop! Hammertime. Over time, this meme went from being spoken to being seen, as Stop signs can still be seen to this day with "HAMMER TIME" stamped on there either as graffiti, as an embossing or as a bumper sticker.
• Never Live It Down: From the tv show Leverage:

Parker: Who ripped out the toilets?
Hardison: This was an IRS foreclosure. I got it cheap.
Eliot: IRS doesn't take toilets.
Hardison: They do when they're solid gold. Heard this used to be MC Hammer's place. I guess you can touch this, with a SWAT team and a federal warrant.

• Sampled Up: "U Can't Touch This" sampled the main riff from "Super Freak" by Rick James. At least James got some of the moola.