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{{Infobox musical artist

| Name = MC Hammer

| Img = MC Hammer with Brian Solis at TC40 Party at Fluid Cropped.jpg

| Img_capt = MC Hammer at TechCrunch40 Conference 2007

| Img_size =

| Landscape =

| Background = solo_singer

| Birth_name = Stanley Kirk Burrell

| Alias = MC Hammer

| Born = {{birth date and age|1962|3|30}}

| Died =

| Origin =[[Oakland, California]]

| Genre =[[Hip hop music|Hip Hop]], [[Dance music|Dance]], [[Gospel]]

| Occupation =[[rapper]], [[preacher]]

| Years_active =1987 - present

| Label =[[Capitol Records]]

[[Death Row Records]]

[[Giant Records]]

[[EMI]]

[[WorldHit]]

| Associated_acts =

| URL = http://mchammer.blogspot.com/

}}

'''MC Hammer''' (born '''Stanley Kirk Burrell''' on [[March 30]], [[1962]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[rapper|MC]] who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark [[Hammer Pants]]. He became a preacher in the 1990s and now works as a television show host and CEO. He lives in [[Tracy, California]], with his wife Stephanie and six children, three boys and three girls. Throughout his career, MC Hammer has run his own label, Oaktown Records.

==Early life==

Burrell was born in [[Oakland]], [[California]] and is now currently residing in Tracy,Ca

==="Executive VP" for the A's===

From 1972 to 1980, Burrell served as a [[batboy]] with the [[Oakland Athletics]] under [[Eccentricity (behavior)|colorful]] team owner [[Charlie Finley]], who lived in the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] and for whom Burrell was his "eyes and ears."<ref name="rebels">''Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the [[Oakland Raiders|Raiders]], the [[1970s|'70s]].'' [[HBO]], [[10 December]] 2003.</ref> [[Reggie Jackson]], in describing Burrell's role for Finley, took credit for the "Hammer" nickname:

:Hell, our chief executive, the guy that ran our team, uh, that communicated [with] Charlie Finley, the top man there, was a 13-year old kid. I nicknamed him "Hammer," because he looked like [Hammerin'] [[Hank Aaron]].<ref name="rebels"/>

Ron Bergman, at the time an [[Oakland Tribune]] writer who covered the A's, recalled that:

:He was an informant in the clubhouse, an informant for Charlie, and he got the nickname "Pipeline."<ref name="rebels"/>

According to Hammer:

:Charlie said, "I'm getting you a new hat. I don't want you to have a hat that says "A's" on it. I'm getting you a hat that says 'Ex VP,' that says '[[Executive Vice President]].' You're running the joint around here." . . . Every time I come down to the clubhouse, you know, [[Rollie Fingers|Rollie]] would yell out "Oh, everybody be quiet! Here comes Pipeline!"<ref name="rebels"/>

Burrell wanted to be a professional baseball player, but he did not catch on in any professional organization. He instead joined the [[United States Navy|Navy]], where he served with Patron (Patrol Squadron) Forty Seven (VP-47) of [[Moffett Field]] in [[Mountain View, California]], as a Petty Officer Third Class Aviation Store Keeper (AK3) until his honorable discharge {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. Upon his return he began performing music in clubs and started his own record label, [[Bust It]].<ref> Hardy, Amanda: [http://www.lagniappemobile.com/article/506 BayFest], Retrieved on [[May 29]], [[2007]]</ref>

==Music career==

===''Feel My Power'' (1987)===

{{main|Feel My Power}}

His debut album ''[[Feel My Power]]'' was produced between 1986 and 1987 to be released independently in 1987 on his Oaktown Records label. It was [[record producer|produced]] by [[VEH]] (of [[Con Funk Shun]]), and sold over 60,000 copies. In the spring of 1988, a DJ played the track "Let's Get it Started"—a song in which he declared he was "...second to none, from Doug E. Fresh, Cool LL, or DJ Run"—after which the track began to gain popularity in clubs. Hammer received several offers from major record labels after the successful release of the independent album.

===''Let's Get It Started'' (1988)===

{{main|Let's Get It Started}}

Hammer initially refused to sign a contract with [[Capitol Records]], but after a substantial signing bonus was added to his contract and a deal to distribute his Oaktown imprint, he did. His debut album was then re-released as ''Let's Get It Started''. A new video was shot for "Let's Get it Started," and another video was produced in fall of 1988 called "Pump It Up" (a new track added to ''Let's Get It Started''). The "Pump It Up" video was added to the roster of "new wave" hip-hop videos that premiered or re-aired on the premiere season of ''Yo! MTV Raps''. It depicted hip-hop legends [[Run-DMC]] getting disrespected by Hammer. The album eventually went [[Music recording sales certification|triple-platinum]] (more than 3 million units sold). "Turn This Mutha Out" (the album's biggest hit), "Feel My Power", and "They Put Me in the Mix" saw heavy rotation on R&B/Hip-Hop radio stations throughout late 1988 into 1989.

===''Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em'' (1990)===

{{main|Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em}}

His second album, 1990's ''[[Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em]]'', included the smash single "[[U Can't Touch This]]", which [[sampling (music)|sampled]] [[Rick James]]' 1981 hit "[[Super Freak]]". Interestingly, despite heavy airplay, "U Can't Touch This" stopped at #8 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] chart due to the fact that it was released only as a twelve-inch single. Follow-up hits included "Have You Seen Her" ([[cover version|cover]] of [[the Chi-Lites]]); and "Pray", which had a beat sampled from [[Prince (artist)|Prince]]'s "[[When Doves Cry]]" and was his biggest hit in the US, peaking at #2. The album went on to become the first hip-hop album to reach [[Music recording sales certification|diamond status]], selling more than 10 million units.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6etqoawabijb allmusic ((( Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em > Overview )))]</ref> During 1990 Hammer toured extensively in [[Europe]] which included a sold-out concert at the [[National Exhibition Centre]] in [[Birmingham]]. With the sponsorship of [[PepsiCo]], [[PepsiCo]] International CEO [[Christopher A. Sinclair]] went on tour with him in 1991.

At the same time, he also appeared in The [[West Coast Rap All-Stars]] [[posse cut]] "We're All in the same Gang".

A critical backlash began brewing over the repetitive nature of his lyrics, his clean-cut image, and his perceived over-reliance on [[Sampling (music)|sampling]] others' hooks for the basis of his singles - criticisms which were are also directed toward his contemporary, [[Vanilla Ice]]. He was mocked in [[music video]]s by [[3rd Bass]], [[The D.O.C.]], DJ Debranz, and [[Ice Cube]]. [[Oakland]] hip-hop group [[Digital Underground]] mocked him in the CD insert to their [[Sex Packets]] album when placing his picture in with the other members and referring to him as an "Unknown derelict". In fact, [[LL Cool J]] mocked him in "To tha Break of Dawn," a track on his ''[[Mama Said Knock You Out]]'' album, calling Hammer an "...amateur, swinging a Hammer from a bodybag (his pants)," and saying, "my old gym teacher ain't supposed to rap." However [[Ice-T]] came to his defense on his 1991 album ''[[OG: Original Gangster]]'': "A special shout out to my man MC Hammer; A lot of people diss you, man, but they just jealous. Fuck 'em!" Ice-T later explained that he had nothing against people who were pop rap from the start, as Hammer had been, but only against rappers who switch from being hardcore or dirty to being pop-rap so that they can sell more records.

Despite the criticisms, MC Hammer's career continued to be highly successful. Soon, MC Hammer dolls, lunchboxes, and other merchandise was marketed. He was even given his own [[Saturday morning cartoon]], ''[[Hammerman]]''.

===''Too Legit to Quit'' (1991)===

{{main|Too Legit to Quit}}

After dropping the "MC" from his stage name, Burrell released ''[[Too Legit to Quit]]'' (again, produced by Felton Pilate) in 1991. Burrell took the opportunity to answer his critics on certain songs on the album. Though the album was, by and large, no better accepted (critically) than his first, sales were strong (over three-million copies) and the title track was a hit. Another hit came soon after, with "Addams Groove" (which appeared on both ''[[The Addams Family]]'' motion picture soundtrack and the vinyl version of ''2 Legit 2 Quit''). Hammer set out on tour, but the stage show had become as lavish as his lifestyle; loaded with singers, dancers, and backup musicians, the supporting concert tour was too expensive for the album's sales to finance, and it was canceled partway through. Despite the multi-platinum certification, the sales were one-third of "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em", and the record company considered it a commercial failure.

===New Venture (Oaktown/Giant)===

Later, Hammer parted ways with Pilate, switched record labels and signed with [[Giant Records (Warner Bros. subsidiary label)|Giant Records]], taking his Oaktown label with him.

===''The Funky Headhunter'' (1994)===

{{main|The Funky Headhunter}}

To adapt to the changing landscape of hip-hop, his next album was a more aggressive, [[gangsta rap]] album entitled ''[[The Funky Headhunter]].'' The accompanying video to The Funky Headhunter's first single, "[[Pumps and a Bump (video)|Pumps and a Bump]]", was banned from heavy rotation on MTV with censors claiming that the depiction of Hammer in Speedos and with what appeared to be an erection was too graphic.<ref>http://63.194.19.185/~rawattitude/v2.php?subaction=showfull&id=1078785985&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&</ref><ref>[http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-06-29/summer7.html San Francisco - News - Bang Thy Head Carefully]</ref> This led to an alternative video being filmed (with Hammer fully clothed) that was directed by fellow Bay Area native Craig S. Brooks, who also helmed the video of rap group D.R.S.' only hit single "Gangsta Lean."

In 1992, Hammer admitted in depositions and court documents to getting the idea for the song "Here Comes The Hammer " from a Christian recording artist in Dallas, Texas named Kevin Christian (formerly "Kevin" Muhammad Abdallah). Christian had filed a 16 million dollar lawsuit against Hammer for copyright infringement for his song entitled "Oh-Oh, You Got The Shing." This fact compounded with witness testimony from both Hammer's and Christian's entourages and other evidence including photos brought about a settlement from Capitol Records in 1994. The terms of the settlement remain sealed. Hammer settled with Christian the following year.

-"Hammered" Dallas Observer -February 26, 1998
http://search.dallasobserver.com/1998-02-26/news/hammered/

===''Inside Out'' (1995)===

{{main|Inside Out (MC Hammer album)}}

In 1995, Hammer released the album ''[[Inside Out (MC Hammer album)|Inside Out]]'', which critics claimed was unfocused, as it was unclear if the genre was pop or rap. The album sold poorly (peaking at 119 on the [[Billboard Charts]]) and Giant Records dropped him and Oaktown Records from their roster.<ref>[http://www.answers.com/topic/mc-hammer-1 MC Hammer: Information and Much More from Answers.com]</ref> Because of dwindling album sales and a lavish lifestyle, Hammer, who was $13 million in debt, filed for [[bankruptcy]] on [[April 3]], [[1996]].<ref>[http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/special2/article.adp?id=20050328135309990003 Page Not Available - AOL News]</ref>

===Life On Death Row (1995-1996)===

{{main|Death Row Records}}

Hammer next signed with [[Death Row Records]], then home to gangsta rap stars [[Snoop Dogg]] and [[Tupac Shakur]]. The label did not release any of Hammer's music while he was with them. However, Burrell did record music with Shakur, and the album he recorded leaked onto the internet some years later. Their collaborative efforts are yet to be released. After the death of Shakur in 1996, Burrell left the record company.

===Return to EMI (1996-1997)===

In 1996, Burrell and Oaktown signed with [[EMI]], which saw the release of a compilation of Hammer's chart topping songs. The album, ''Greatest Hits'', featured 12 former hits and was released in October, only six months after his bankruptcy.<ref>[http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Greatest_Hits_M_C_Hammer Greatest Hits by M.C. Hammer Specs - DealTime]</ref>

In 1997, MC Hammer (who by that time had readopted the "MC") was the subject of an episode of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' and the [[VH1]] series ''[[Behind the Music]]''. In these appearances, Burrell admitted that he had already used up most of his fortune of over $20 million.

===Family Affair (1998)===

{{main|Family Affair (MC Hammer album)}}

In 1998, MC Hammer released his first album in his new deal with [[EMI]]. His new project was titled ''[[Family Affair (MC Hammer album)|Family Affair]].'' ''Family Affair'' was titled this because it was to intorduce the world to the artists he had signed to his Oaktown Records as his artists Geeman, Teabag, and Common Unity, made their recording debut. This would be all the album was noted for, as the album featured no charting singles, and would be nothing more than a collectors item, as it only sold a career-low 500 copies worldwide.

===Active Duty (2001)===

{{main|Active Duty (MC Hammer album)}}

In 2001, MC Hammer released his 8th studio album, ''Active Duty,'' to pay homage to the ones lost in the [[September 11, 2001]] [[terrorist attacts]]. The album followed that theme, it featured two singles, "No Stoppin' Us (USA)," and "Pop Yo Collar." The album, like its predecessor, failed to chart and would not sell many copies.

===Full Blast (2003)===

{{main|Full Blast}}

After leaving [[Capitol Records]] and [[EMI]] for the second time in his career, MC Hammer decided to move his Oaktown imprint to an independent distributor and released his ninth studio album, ''Full Blast,'' in 2003. The album would feature no charting singles and failed to ceritfy in the [[RIAA]].

===Look Look Look (2006)===

{{main|Look Look Look}}

After going independent, he decided to create a digital label to release his tenth studio album, ''Look Look Look.'' The album was released in 2006 and featured production from [[Scott Storch]]. The album featured a title single and would sell much more than his previous releases at 300,000 copies worldwide.

==Lifestyle==

Due to the success of the ''Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em'' album, Hammer had amassed approximately [[United States dollar|USD]]$33 million.

$12 million of this total was used to have his home built in [[Fremont, California|Fremont]], [[California]], 30 miles (50 km) south of where he grew up. Among the documented features this house had included:

*Recording studio

*33 stadium seating theater

*2 swimming pools (one indoor/one outdoors)

*Tennis courts and a baseball diamond

*Waterfalls, ponds, and aquariums

*Mirrored Bathroom (at least $75,000 (£35,000) in mirrors throughout the house)

*$2 Million of Italian [[marble]] floors and a floor-to-ceiling gray marble office with customized marble niches for awards.

*Marble countertops in the kitchen (the house was heavily decorated in marble)

*Massive gold and black marble jacuzzi in the master bedroom

*Basketball courts

*Bowling alley

*17 car garage

*Two gold-plated “Hammertime” gates for entrance to the property

*A dishwasher installed in his master bedroom for the purpose of “cleaning up after a midnight snack” (as told in the VH1 movie about his life, entitled ''Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story'').

Many of these amenities did little to improve the value of the home.

After the purchase of the home, it left approximately $20 million, the money that was supposedly squandered. After the home, his money went into other things (much described as frivolous):

*A fleet of 17 automobiles, including a [[Lamborghini]], a stretch [[limousine]], a [[Range Rover]], and a [[De Lorean DMC-12|De Lorean]].

*Two [[helicopter]]s.

*Investments up to $1 million in [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorses]].

*Careless spending on high-priced items like antique golf clubs, Etruscan sculpture, and gold chains for his 4 pet [[rottweiler]]s.

*Extravagant parties financed by Hammer himself.

*The huge entourage of over 300 people, most of whom were on his payroll, for total monthly wages of $500,000.

*Leased Boeing 727.

In 1991, MC Hammer established Oaktown Stable that would eventually have nineteen [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorses]]. In 1991, his outstanding [[filly]] [[Lite Light]] won several [[Graded stakes race|Grade I]] stakes races including the prestigious [[Kentucky Oaks]]. His [[D. Wayne Lukas]]-trained [[Colt (horse)|colt]] [[Dance Floor]] won the Grade II [[Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes]] and the [[Lane's End Breeders' Futurity]] in 1991 then the following year won the [[Fountain of Youth Stakes]] and finished 3rd in the 1992 [[Kentucky Derby]].

Following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Hammer released the patriotic album ''Active Duty'' on his own WorldHit label. He donated portions of the proceeds to 9/11 charities. In 2004, he released the ''Full Blast'' album. Neither album managed to make the Billboard Charts.<ref>[http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=1035&model.vnuAlbumId=507384 Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - MC Hammer]</ref>

In 2003, Hammer appeared on the first season of ''[[The Surreal Life]]'', a reality show known for assembling an eclectic mix of celebrities to live together.

In the 2005 MTV Music Video Awards, MC Hammer made a surprise appearance in the middle of the show with best friend [[Jeremiah Jackson]].

In February 2006, the first single off Hammer's new album ''[[Look Look Look]]'' was released. The [[Scott Storch]]-produced title track was released as a single and a music video.

Hammer now frequently posts about his life on his blog "Look Look Look."<ref>[http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ MC Hammer Blog]</ref>

==Hammer's legacy==

After his rapid fall from fame and subsequent bankruptcy, MC Hammer spent most of the latter half of the 1990s as a [[punch line]] in the music business. In 2000, [[Nelly]], in his breakthrough hit "[[Country Grammar]]", announced his intention to ''"blow 30 mill[ion] like I'm Hammer" ''[http://www.davemcnally.com/Lyrics/Nelly/CountryGrammar/]. However, in 2000, Hammer received a nod from [[Mystikal]] in his song [["Mystikal Fever"]]: "Tell em all settle shop down close fo' sho', put it down like 1990 M.C. Hammer, I hope", referring to Hammer's intense and electrifying performance style.

However, he has also influenced the industry. Hammer's sampling of large portions of well-known [[pop music|pop]] oldies (as opposed to short [[James Brown (musician)|James Brown]] or [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] [[funk]] riffs) has increasing popularity among mainstream rappers, particularly [[Sean Combs|Diddy]]'s [[Bad Boy Records]] stable. Other examples include [[Eminem]]'s ''[[Like Toy Soldiers]]'' which samples nearly the entire chorus from [[Martika|Martika's]] similarly-named 1989 [[Toy Soldiers (song)|hit.]]

[[Image:Brunswick-Stop-80s-time.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Even in 2008, vandals continue choosing to invoke Hammer's catchphrase.]] Notoriously, British TV presenter [[Mark Lamarr]] interrupted Hammer repeatedly with this phrase in an interview filmed for "[[The Word (TV series)|The Word]]", much to Hammer's annoyance.

Hammer recently performed a [[self-parody]] role in a television ad for [[Lay's]] potato chips. Some kids lose their baseball over the fence of a neighbor apparently infamous for not returning lost toys, so they throw him a bag of chips to appease him. He throws back their ball, their dog, a car belonging to one kid's dad, and MC Hammer, still dressed in golden sparkle shirt and [[Hammer pants]]. MC Hammer instantly breaks into the chorus of "U Can't Touch This." The kids then toss Hammer back over the fence. He also appeared in an ad for [[Nationwide Insurance]] which made fun of his sudden fall from fame and wealth. In 2004, "U Can't Touch This" was licensed by [[Purell]] for a series of commercials.

Hammer also began the trend of rap artists being accepted as mainstream pitchmen. Prior to Hammer, it was virtually unheard of for a hip-hop artist to be seen in a major commercial spot. Hammer appeared in major marketing campaigns for companies such as [[Pepsi]] and [[Taco Bell]] to the point that he was criticized as a "sell-out".<ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mchammer/biography MC Hammer: Biography : Rolling Stone]</ref><ref>[http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1996/feb/02-08-96/arts/mc.hammer.html Michigan Daily Online]</ref> Today, many rappers appear in various major commercials and market their own clothing lines, such as [[Jay-Z]], [[Nelly]], and [[P. Diddy]]. Ironically, two of Hammer's biggest detractors, [[LL Cool J]] and [[Run D.M.C.]], appeared together in a [[Dr Pepper]] ad during [[Super Bowl XXXVIII]]. [[Dr. Dre]] appeared in a [[Heineken Pilsener|Heineken]] commercial in 2001, and [[Ice Cube]], another one of Hammer's biggest detractors, filmed [[St. Ides]] malt liquor ads in the early 1990s and has since become an actor and producer. In one of the episodes of [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]] called "[[Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus]] [[Irwin (Billy & Mandy)|Irwin]] wears clothing similar to that of MC Hammer and dances to a variation of "[[U Can't Touch This]]".

==Pastoral career==

Hammer reaffirmed his Christian beliefs in October 1997<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.christianity.ca/entertainment/music/2003/11.000.html |title= Rap Artist MC Hammer Returns to Faith in God}}</ref> and now has a television show on the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tbn.org/index.php/2/4/p/78.html |title= MC Hammer's TBN Site}}</ref> Hammer has officiated at the celebrity weddings of actor [[Corey Feldman]] and [[Susie Sprague]] on 30 October 2002<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-27-2002-31154.asp |title=Corey Feldman Wed by MC Hammer}}</ref> and [[Mötley Crüe]]'s [[Vince Neil]] and Lia Gerardini in January 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/jan05/20050111_vinceneil.html |title= MC Hammer Marries Vince Neil}}</ref>

==Discography==

{{main|MC Hammer discography}}

===Studio albums===

* 1987: ''[[Feel My Power]]''

* 1988: ''[[Let's Get It Started (album)|Let's Get It Started]]

* 1990: ''[[Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em]]''

* 1991: ''[[Too Legit to Quit]]''

* 1994: ''[[The Funky Headhunter]]''

* 1995: ''[[Inside Out (MC Hammer album)|Inside Out]]''

* 1996: ''[[Too Tight (MC Hammer album)|Too Tight]]''

* 1998: ''[[Family Affair (MC Hammer album)|Family Affair]]''

* 2001: ''[[Active Duty (MC Hammer album)|Active Duty]]''

* 2003: ''[[Full Blast]]''

* 2006: ''[[Look Look Look]]''

===Compilations===

* 1995: ''[[Greatest Hits (MC Hammer album)|Greatest Hits]]''

* 1998: ''[[Back 2 Back Hits]]''

* 2000: ''[[The Hits]]''

==Compilations==

*'''''[[Greatest Hits (MC Hammer album)|Greatest Hits]]''''' (1995)

*'''''[[Back 2 Back Hits]]''''' (1998)

*'''''[[The Hits (MC Hammer album)|The Hits]]''''' (2000)

===Singles===

{{Cleanup-restructure|date=September 2007}}

{| class="wikitable"

! width="28" rowspan="2"| '''Year'''

! width="175" rowspan="2"| '''Title'''

! colspan="2"| '''Chart positions'''

|-

!width="56"|[[Billboard Hot 100|U.S.]]

!width="56"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]

|-

|-

|rowspan="2"|1988

|align="left" valign="top"|"Let's Get It Started"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"Pump It Up"

|align="center" valign="top"|46

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|rowspan="2"|1989

|align="left" valign="top"|"Turn This Mutha Out"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"They Put Me in the Mix"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|rowspan="4"|1990

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[U Can't Touch This]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|8

|align="center" valign="top"|3

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[Have You Seen Her]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|4

|align="center" valign="top"|8

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[Pray (MC Hammer song)|Pray]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|2

|align="center" valign="top"|8

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[Here Comes the Hammer]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|54

|align="center" valign="top"|15

|-

|rowspan="4"|1991

|align="left" valign="top"|"Yo!! Sweetness"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|16

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"(Hammer Hammer) They Put Me in the Mix"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|20

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[Too Legit to Quit (song)|Too Legit to Quit]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|6

|align="center" valign="top"|60

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"[[Addams Groove]]"

|align="center" valign="top"|7

|align="center" valign="top"|4

|-

|rowspan="2"|1992

|align="left" valign="top"|"Do Not Pass Me By"

|align="center" valign="top"|62

|align="center" valign="top"|14

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"This is the Way We Roll"

|align="center" valign="top"|86

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|rowspan="3"|1994

|align="left" valign="top"|"Pumps and a Bump"

|align="center" valign="top"|26

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"It's All Good"

|align="center" valign="top"|46

|align="center" valign="top"|52

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"Don't Stop"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|72

|-

|align="center" valign="top"|1995

|align="left" valign="top"|"Straight to My Feet"

(with [[Deion Sanders]])

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|57

|-

|align="center" valign="top"|1996

|align="left" valign="top"|"Too Late Playa"

(with [[Tupac Shakur]])

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|rowspan="2"|2001

|align="left" valign="top"|"No Stoppin' Us (USA)"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="left" valign="top"|"Pop Yo Collar"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="center" valign="top"|2006

|align="left" valign="top"|"LOOK"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|-

|align="center" valign="top"|2006

|align="left" valign="top"|"So Long"

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|align="center" valign="top"|-

|}

==Trivia==

{{Trivia|date=July 2007}}

*Not only was Hammer featured on one of the first episodes of VH1's ''Behind the Music'' in 1997, he was also the subject of a 2001 [[biopic]] titled ''Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story'', which also aired on VH1 and starred [[Romany Malco]] in the title role.

*Stanley Burrell has performed on [[USO]] tours for men and women of the Armed Forces.

*Is very close friends with [[Deion Sanders]].

*MC Hammer helped fund (and effectively save) [[Justin Lin]]'s [[Better Luck Tomorrow]].

*MC Hammer performed as a special guest at the 2007 [[The Bamboozle|Bamboozle]] music festival in New Jersey.

*MC Hammer performed as the headlining concert in Nike's "Run Hit Remix: The Power Song Edition," at the Los Angeles Coliseum on September 15, 2007.

*In the ''[[Shark Tale]]'' movies, (Elton) Oscar is most likely to sing ''U Can't Touch This''.

*In the Simpsons episode titled "Behind the Laughter", the Simpsons are shown buying MC Hammer's house after becoming rich and successful. Homer changes the gold plated gates saying "Hammertime" to "Ho mer Time". Bart says he found a secret room filled to the ceiling with parachute pants, and is shown wearing a pair while moonwalking, doing the splits, and beatboxing.

*In 1990 MC Hammer challenged Michael Jackson to a dance off.{{Fact|date=March 2008}}

*At the end of the Music Video for '[[Something Good (Utah Saints song)|Something Good 08]]' by [[Utah Saints]], the Welsh man who supposedly invented the running man is seen being beaten up and made to sign a contract saying that MC Hammer invented the dance.

*In Def Comedy Jam, Alonso Hamburger Joe explains how white people copy black people: "We came out with New Edition, they came out with News Kids on the Block. We came up with rap music, they came up with MC Hammer!".

*Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of "U Can't Touch This" entitled "Can't Watch This" on his 1991 "Off the Deep End" album.

===Music sampled by Hammer===

* [[Rick James]]'s "Give It to Me Baby" was used for "Yo Sweetness"

*[[Rick James]]' "[[Super Freak]]" was the basis for "[[U Can't Touch This]]", the song also uses samples of "Der Komissar" by Austrian singer [[Falco (musician)|Falco]]. (Producer Felton Pilate, however, denies any samples from Falco)

*[[James Brown]]'s "[[Get on the Good Foot]]" was sampled for "Here Comes the Hammer".

*[[Prince (artist)|Prince]]'s song "[[When Doves Cry]]" was used for Hammer's song "Pray."

*[[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]'s song "[[Atomic Dog]]" was sampled on "Pumps and a Bump."

*[[Prince (artist)|Prince]]'s song "[[Soft and Wet]]" was used for Hammer's song "She's Soft and Wet."

*[[Funkadelic]]'s "[[(Not Just) Knee Deep]]" was used for Hammer's and Deion Sanders' song "Straight to My Feet".

===List of athlete appearances in Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit" video===

(in chronological order)

*[[José Canseco]]

*[[Isiah Thomas]]

*[[Kirby Puckett]]

*[[Jerry Rice]]

*[[Rickey Henderson]]

*[[Andre Rison]]

*[[Deion Sanders]]

*[[Chris Mullin (basketball)|Chris Mullin]]

*[[Roger Clemens]]

*[[Roger Craig]]

*[[Ronnie Lott]]

*[[Lynette Woodard]]

*[[Dallas Cowboys]] cheerleaders

*[[David Robinson (basketball)|David Robinson]]

*[[Atlanta Falcons]] cheerleaders

*[[Jerry Glanville]]

===Sampling Court Case===

Hammer was a defendant in a landmark 1998 sampling copyright decision in the case of Santrayll v. Burrell. The Hammer song in question was "Here Comes the Hammer". Federal Court Judge Peter K. Leisure concluded that Hammer had sampled music by another rap group, The Legend. The Legend admitted to sampling LTD's "Back In Love"; [[Wham!]]'s "[[Everything She Wants]]"; [[Barry DeVorzon]]'s "S.W.A.T." theme in their songs "In Full Effect"/"Uh-Oh". The Legend also admitted that they did not disclose the sampled works when filing for copyright registration. In essence, Hammer argued that because The Legend admitted to sampling, this constituted a knowing failure to advise the Copyright Office of facts that might have led to the rejection of the copyright application. Meaning: no copyright protection for The Legend means no lawsuit for infringement against Hammer. But the court disagreed with Hammer and found that: (1) it was possible that a jury might find that the failure to disclose the samples was not deliberate and (2) the samples played such a minor role in The Legend's song that the unauthorized use of samples "could not possibly have led the Copyright Office to reject the copyright applications."

Hammer ultimately '''admitted''' in depositions and court documents to taking the song from a Christian recording artist in Dallas, Texas named Kevin Christian (formerly '''"Kevin" Muhammad Abdallah'''). Christian had filed a 16 million dollar lawsuit against Hammer for copyright infringement. While "Here Comes The Hammer" was similar to The Legends song, musical experts agreed that it was almost '''identical''' to Mr. Christian's (Abdallah's) song entitled "Oh-Oh, You Got The Shing" and '''one would have to have heard the other in order for this to happen'''. This fact compounded with witness testimony from both Hammer's and Christian's entourages and other '''evidence''' including photos brought about a settlement from Capitol Records in 1994. The terms of the settlement remain sealed. Hammer settled with Christian the following year.

-"Hammered" Dallas Observer -February 26, 1998

==Notes==

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* http://search.dallasobserver.com/1998-02-26/news/hammered/

== External links ==

*{{imdb name|id=0358479|name=MC Hammer}}

*{{tvtome person|id=383207|name=MC Hammer}}

*[http://music.yahoo.com/ar-301341---MC-Hammer MC Hammer on Yahoo! Music]

*[http://www.weht.net/WEHT/M.C._Hammer.html ''What Ever happened to ...'' MC Hammer]

*[http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ MC Hammer blog]

*[http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=40932 Hammer Time widget. A dancing MC Hammer for your desktop.]

*[http://search.dallasobserver.com/1998-02-26/news/hammered/ "Hammered" Successful Copyright Infringement Lawsuit by Kevin Christian(Abdullah)]

*[http://hammerrolled.com First Rick Astley, now MC Hammer? You've been HammerRolled!]

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