M.C. Hammer News

This year's American Music Awards opened with a melange of hits from Janet Jackson, who lip-synced, looked like an MC Hammer-inspired version of Pocahontas and struggled to get into the groove on dance smashes such as "Control" and "Miss You Much" - but occasionally slid right in.

There's probably no human being I've ever held in higher regard than MC Hammer. Truly. Over the span of my 29 years, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone I idolized quite like Hammer circa summer 1990 something my mom confirmed earlier this year upon discovering some old VHS tapes of me "wearing [my] Vanilla Ice pants" and trying desperately to ...

You can make your own musical selections at Rip Ride Rockit during the turbulent ride By Juliana A. Torres Staff Writer Universal Studios' newest roller coaster, the Rip Ride Rockit, is designed to make riders feel like they are stars in a music video, from choosing a song track that will define their ride through music-themed twists and turns to ...

HAMMER TIME: Rapper MC Hammer appears at a press conference in Auckland today. He's responsible for one of the '90s most iconic songs, but when offered a chance to perform his hit single U Can't Touch This in Auckland today, rapper MC Hammer got shy.

Last month we mentioned that Oakland was one of Five Cities With a Bad Rap that really deserved another chance.

Herald on Sunday gossip queen Rachel Glucina reports on the latest parties, fashions and celebrity events around town 3:00AM Friday November 13, 2009 The most powerful broadcaster in the country, Mike Hosking , is gaining a large following on social networking site Twitter: 1,354 followers and counting.

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Before opening his Norwood restaurant, Mark's Ooh La La Yum!, Ashwani Kumar worked as a costume designer in New York City.

How does an ageing hip hop artist make a comeback? Post a few thousand tweets, for a start.

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.

Some crazy ideas have worked well: peanut butter and chocolate, deep-fried Snickers and even a Jessica Simpson country album was way better than her pop songs.

By now, MC Hammer's story is legendary. Hired as an assistant by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley after impressing him with precocious dancing skills , MC Hammer went on to become the first rap artist to sell 10 million records, inspiring a style of choreography and ridiculous trousers that define a brief cultural moment around 1990.

You thought it died in the early '90s. I mean after The Fresh Prince pimped Sprite and MC Hammer pushed some popcorn chicken, you thought it was the beginning of the end and you were right.

At 3:25 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, a defense of hip-hop's tight-jeans fashion fad popped up on Twitter.

Rap star-turned-preacher MC Hammer is launching a viral video campaign to get the public to vote for a UK celebrity to appear with him in a national TV campaign to promote gold-buying service Cash4Gold.

Mo Rocca disects the future of time wasting and speaks with former Rap star MC Hammer.

Many taxpayers believe that they are safe from Internal Revenue Service audits after a certain number of years have passed, but as Stanley Kirk Burrell - better known as Grammy-award-winning rapper MC Hammer - can attest, that isn't always the case.

Just because the New York State Fair largely leans in the direction of country in terms of genre representation doesn't mean the hip-hop crowd should be left without something to enjoy.

When he was known as MC Hammer, the man born Stanley Burrell famously sold consumers Rick James samples and parachute pants.

Software pirates as heros . As we've often written, doing business in China means mastering not just the laws and the language, but also the cultural nuances.