Then there was MC Hammer (Kirk Burrell). He was an American rapper who rose to fame in a decade to the late 1990s, with such hit songs as U Can’t Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit, but whose lasting ...
MC Hammer’s career arc is one of extremes. The Bay Area legend’s meteoric rise in the late 1980s was the crescendo of hip-hop’s first push into the pop culture mainstream – a trend that ...
The storage unit had parachute pants, a couple of fur coats, an old Mac computer, and over 30 master tapes labeled Death Row Records with possible unreleased music from MC Hammer, DJ Quick ...
Have you ever wondered where Stanley Burrell, a.k.a. rap legend MC Hammer, got his stage name? A Kings Touch 👑 That gentle,warm,joyful smile and his heartfelt embrace of a little kid from East ...
A creative and commercial peak, MC Hammer’s ‘Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em’ included ‘U Can’t Touch This’ and introduced the world to ‘Hammer Time.’ No one could escape the ...
There had been hit rap singles and albums before him, but MC Hammer was the man who truly brought rap music to a mass pop audience. Armed with a flamboyant wardrobe (particularly his trademark baggy ...