In 1990, who won the MTV Best Dance Video Award for "U Can't Touch This"?

M.C. Hammer won the 1990 MTV Best Dance Video Award for “U Can’t Touch This.” The song and its highly choreographed video made Hammer one of the defining pop-rap stars of the early 1990s. Its performance style combined hip-hop, funk, theatrical movement, and Hammer’s trademark rapid footwork.

The track was built around a prominent sample of Rick James’s 1981 funk hit “Super Freak,” including its recognizable opening riff. Released in 1990 on Hammer’s album Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em, it became a major crossover success and helped make rap more visible to mainstream pop audiences.

The MTV victory is sometimes confused with Hammer’s other wins at the same ceremony. “U Can’t Touch This” also won Best Rap Video, while Hammer and his collaborators received recognition for the video’s choreography. The 1990 ceremony therefore cemented the song’s unusual combination of rap, dance, fashion, and music-video spectacle.