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MC Hammer
Stanley Kirk Burrell, better known by his stage name MC Hammer, is an American rapper and dancer. He is known for hit songs such as "U Can't Touch This", "Pray", "2 Legit 2 Quit" and "Pumps and a Bump", as well as flashy dance movements, extravagant choreography and his namesake Hammer pants. Remembered for a rapid rise to fame, Hammer has also become an entrepreneur and celebrity spokesperson. A…
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business · American rapper and dancer (born 1962) · rapper · entrepreneur · songwriter · record producer · choreographer · spokesperson · actor · dancer · singer · film actor · also MC Hammer, M.C. Hammer, Stanley Kirk Burrell, Stanley Burrell, Kirk Burrell, Hammer
Born 30 March 1962 · Q295923
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2026· 5 entries
“There is a harder edge, but I”
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“second to none from Doug E. Fresh, LL Cool J or DJ Run”
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The Guardian: Arsenal hammer Manchester City and the EFL kicks off | Football Weekly video
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Public attention spiked: 4,956 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,611, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
Published video “M.C. Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit ft. Saja”.
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Published video “The All White Party was lit ! Mike Epps keep me laughing and having fun. Discussed some AI projects”.
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2022· 1 entry
Bobby Brown claimed he started wearing the "diaper pants" that Hammer altered and made famous, on his A&E show Bobby Brown: Every Little Step
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2020· 1 entry
The 30th anniversary of "U Can't Touch This"
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2017· 8 entries
Published video “MCHammerVevo Live Stream”.
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Published video “MC HAMMER "We Gotta Do Better" ft Gentry Kozia w Pleasure Ellis Fre Will & Spirit Of David”.
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Published video “MC Hammer featuring Gentry Kozia, "Streets Is Ready"”.
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Published video “"HAMMERTIME" Jonn Hart featuring Nef The Pharaoh &Clyde Carson”.
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Published video “Help the Children (now remix) MC HAMMER Featuring Gentry Kozia”.
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Published video “Hammertime25”.
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Published video “"Help The Children" filming”.
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Published video “More with Charles Dickerson”.
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2016· 1 entry
MC Hammer appeared as himself in an episode of Uncle Grandpa on Cartoon Network
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2015· 1 entry
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Hammer's argument that because the government had not listed those taxes in the government's proof of claim filed with the Bankruptcy Court, the governmen
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Icon”.
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2013· 1 entry
In Dublin, California, for allegedly obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties and resisting an officer (according to "stop and identify" statutes)
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2012· 2 entries
A self-described "super geek" who consulted for or invested in eight technology companies, Hammer claimed to spend 10–12 hours daily working on his technology projects, and tweeted 30–40 times a day as of 2012.
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Slaughterhouse released a single called "Hammer Dance", along with a video
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2011· 1 entry
MC Hammer appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show premiering the track "See Her Face" via Flipboard
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2010· 5 entries
Hammer headlined at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference for an official after-hours party
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Hammer discussed his lifelong involvement with athletes on ESPN's First Take as well as explained that his brother Louis Burrell Jr
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His contribution to social media and as a co-founder of his own Internet businesses (such as DanceJam
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Released album “DanceJamtheMusic”.
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Rick Ross released "MC Hammer" from the Teflon Don album which samples Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit"
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2009· 3 entries
Performed his "Hammer dance" on Live with Regis and Kelly with Will Ferrell as co-host
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Which honored the top short-form content creators on Twitter
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Hammer and Ed McMahon were featured in a Super Bowl XLIII commercial for Cash4Gold
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Platinum”.
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Platinum MC Hammer was released by EMI Records
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2007· 1 entry
Hammer was co-founder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based (Silicon Valley) DanceJam
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Look Look Look”.
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Hammer's music catalog was sold to the music company Evergreen/BMG for nearly $3 million
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Where Hammer danced in honor of the "Godfather of Soul"
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2005· 1 entry
Hammer appeared in a commercial for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company which made a humorous reference to his career
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Full Blast”.
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2003· 2 entries
Hammer appeared on The WB's first season of The Surreal Life, a reality show known for assembling an eclectic mix of celebrities to live together
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Was the co-creator of the dance website DanceJam
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2002· 3 entries
(as seen on VH1's The Surreal Life), and also at Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil and Lia Gerardini's wedding in January 2005
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Hammer signed a book contract with publishing company Simon & Schuster which called for a release the following year
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“Opis: komentując zmianę wizerunku MC Hammera, który pod koniec kariery próbował sił jako gangsta raper.”
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Active Duty”.
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “The Hits”.
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Another compilation album was released, titled The Hits
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Released album “U Can't Touch This”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Family • Affair”.
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Hammer released his first album in his new deal with EMI, titled Family Affair, because it was to introduce the world to the artists he had signed to his Oaktown Records (Geeman, Teabag, and Common Unity) as they made th
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Another "greatest hits" album, called Back 2 Back Hits, was produced and released by CEMA
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1997· 5 entries
Released album “Back 2 Back Hits”.
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Just prior to beginning his ministry, Hammer (who by that time had re-adopted "MC") was the subject of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show and the VH1 series Behind the Music (music from his album Inside Out was feature
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In 1997, Hammer sold his Fremont, California estate and mansion for US$5.3 million, after filing for bankruptcy in 1996.
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And spoke of his renewed commitment to God
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Hammer sold his Fremont, California estate and mansion for US$5
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Too Tight”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “V: Inside Out”.
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Hammer released "Straight to My Feet" (with Deion Sanders) from the Street Fighter soundtrack (released in December 1994)
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Hammer released the album Inside Out
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1994· 3 entries
Deion Sanders released Prime Time, a rap album on Hammer's Bust It Records label which featured the minor hit "Must Be the Money"
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Released album “The Funky Headhunter”.
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British TV presenter Mark Lamarr interrupted Hammer repeatedly with Hammer's catch phrase ("Stop
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1993· 2 entries
His production company released the hit rap song "Gangsta Lean" by DRS (from their debut album Gangsta Lean)
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Hammer began recording his fifth official album
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1992· 6 entries
Released album “Japan Only III Rare Tracks (Japan Only IIIーレア・トラックス)”.
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for Addams Groove (1992).
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Released album “Super Dance Remix II (Japan Only II)”.
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Hammer had admitted in depositions and court documents to getting the idea for the song "Here Comes the Hammer" from a Christian recording artist in Dallas named Kevin Christian
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And issued the album Doin' What I Gotta Do with the track "Bustin' Out (On Funk)" sampling the Rick James single "Bustin' Out"; Run-DMC; and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
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Boyz II Men joined the tour as an opening act
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1991· 7 entries
Released album “Too Legit to Quit”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Video (1991).
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Released ep “Super Dance Remix (Japan Only)”.
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Then the following year won the Fountain of Youth Stakes and finished 3rd in the 1992 Kentucky Derby
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Hammer hosted, sang/rapped and voiced a Saturday-morning cartoon called Hammerman
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Hammer was featured on the single "The Blood" from the BeBe & CeCe Winans album, Different Lifestyles
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Hammer established Oaktown Stable that would eventually have nineteen Thoroughbred racehorses
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1990· 3 entries
(with an original release date of January 1, 1990)
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Released album “Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em”.
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Entitled Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie (with portions of his music videos included within the movie)
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1989· 1 entry
Hammer was featured on "You've Got Me Dancing" with Glen Goldsmith, which appeared on Goldsmith's album Don't Turn This Groove Around via RCA Records
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Let’s Get It Started”.
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Which became his first multi-platinum hit
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Feel My Power”.
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Burrell and Tramaine Hawkins performed with Gibson's band in concerts at various venues, such as the Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills
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1984· 1 entry
Burrell began attending Bible studies, joined a street ministry, and formed a gospel rap group with Jon Gibson known as the Holy Ghost Boy(s)
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1980· 1 entry
And took undergraduate classes in communications
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-03-30.
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