02: "Ice Ice Baby" vs. "U Can't Touch This"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Both were amazingly huge rap songs that left questionable legacies behind. But which is ultimately the more epic track: "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, or "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer?

There isn't a perfect answer to this conundrum. Boldly diving into this quagmire are Todd Nathanson and Danny Roth, who attempt to make sense of it all.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:04.2	And I'm Danny Rob.
0:05.3	This is Song versus Song.
0:06.9	Today we are doing Ice Ice Baby versus you can't touch this.
0:12.6	Why?
0:15.0	Well, I figure we should, you know, not jerk around.
0:18.3	This is like the big one.
0:19.9	The Zeppelin versus Sabbath.
0:24.5	Oh yes, truly, truly.
0:26.9	When you said these were going to be the two songs,
0:30.1	I was so excited because I'm such huge fans of these classics
0:35.1	that have lived on in perpetuity
0:37.2	in ways that we all knew that
0:39.2	they would.
0:40.2	I actually don't like either of these songs, just to get it out of the way.
0:43.5	But why did you choose these to be in a versus?
0:50.0	I'm kind of not joking.
0:51.6	It's like the Elvis versus Beatles of 1990.
0:55.0	Wait, is that Beatles versus Stones?
0:57.0	I don't.
0:58.0	Come on, man.
0:59.3	Are you an Elvis person or a Beatles person?
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