Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1962-03-30
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'em
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Film & TV
Acting · Oakland, California, USA
Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American rapper, actor, TV personality, entrepreneur, celebrity spokesperson, and ordained preacher. Known for hit songs such as "U Can't Touch This", "2 Legit 2 Quit", and "Pumps and a Bump", flashy dance movements, extravagant choreography, and his eponymous Hammer pants. A…
Known for
- 40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2024
- Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson — Self (archive footage)2017
- The Swingin' A's — Self - Narrator (voice)2017
- The '91 Falcons — Self2017
- Beat Shazam — Self2017
- Zoolander 2 — M.C. Hammer2016
- James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message — Self2014
- Uncle Grandpa — MC Hammer (voice)2013
- Vanilla Ice Archive — Self (archive footage)2012
- 1040: Christianity in the New Asia — Self2010
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- 1,129,979
- Total plays
- 5,826,101
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MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was most popular during the late 80s and early 90s as he released a string of hits, labeled by critics such as those at Allmusic as "one of the best-selling rappers of all time". Known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune (going from top 40 acclaim to bankruptcy) as well as his trademark 'Hammer Pants' and 'Hammerman' cartoon, he became a preacher in the mid-90s, and he now works as a television show
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Improved adsorption energetics within density-functional theory using revised Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functionals
· 1999 · cited 7,755x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,671x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,723x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,587x
- Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record
· 1993 · cited 3,784x
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Hammerman Hammer
- Born
- Stanley Kirk Burrell , ( 1962-03-30 ) March 30, 1962 (age 64) , Oakland, California , U.S.
- Genres
- Hip hop pop rap
- Occupations
- Rapper dancer record producer entrepreneur
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Labels
- Capitol EMI Death Row Giant Reprise World Hit Full Blast Warner Bros.
- Spouse
- Stephanie Burrell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 21, 1985</span>"}]]}'>1985 )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1981–1984
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class
- Unit
- VP-47
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 30 March 1962
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kirk
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
Article
Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply 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 multi-award winner, he is considered a "forefather" and pioneering innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of freestyle music).
Born and raised in Oakland, California, Hammer served three years in the United States Navy before independently releasing his debut album Feel My Power in 1986. After signing a contract with Capitol Records, Hammer released his second album Let's Get It Started in 1988, which became his first multi-platinum hit. Hammer became the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status with his next album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990), helping him become one of the most prominent media celebrities of the early 1990s. After being labeled a sellout by the changing landscape of hip hop music which led to declining record sales for his fourth album, Too Legit To Quit (1991), Hammer unsuccessfully attempted to appeal to the rise of gangsta rap with his next album, The Funky Headhunter (1994). However, due to commercial overexposure, Hammer's popularity waned by the mid-1990s, which led to a highly publicized bankruptcy beginning in 1996. He has since released seven more albums, in addition to multiple songs after 2010.
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