Right now if somebody is going to do a better job than me from now on, he or she has to be less chubbier than me. PSY and MC Hammer perform 'Gangnam Style/Too Legit to Quit' at New Years Rockin Eve in Times Square NYE 2013 NYC. Personally, I felt a little bit guilty representing my country’s music. In Korea, there are so many muscular, handsome, pretty K-poppers and I’m kind of chubby honestly. PSY and MC Hammer perform 'Gangnam Style/Too Legit to Quit' at New Year's Rockin' Eve in Times Square NYE 2013 NYC. While the impact of “Gangnam Style” tripled the views of Korean music videos, the 40-year-old PSY stands apart from the younger, major-label groups with whom he’s often associated. As he told Billboard earlier this year, “In culture and business, everything happens coincidentally and accidentally. White there are quick comparisons to be made between PSY’s sharp ascent in 2012 and this year’s K-pop breakouts BTS performing at the 2017 AMAs ceremony, but many - PSY himself included - see his brush with mainstream popularity as an anomaly from Korea’s complex musical ecosystem. Halfway through his set, Hammer stepped out to join him in the ubiquitous horse-riding move, as the EDM pulse of “Gangnam Style” was chopped into the gang-vocal hook from his 1991 hit “2 Legit 2 Quit.” PSY’s dancing and darting gestures were so sharp, even as he fights to keep his driving hypeman energy from being eclipsed by the thundering beat. Leaning into his status as a dance-craze progenitor, his AMAs performance drew the connecting line from his fame to that of ’90s rapper/dancer MC Hammer. When asked to close out the 2012 American Music Awards, PSY gave American audiences a look at the type of live performances the K-pop star had been displaying to Korean-dominated audiences to for more than a decade.
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