Hammer's Bust It Records label.īefore Hammer's successful music career (with his mainstream popularity lasting approximately between 19) and his "rags-to-riches-to-rags-and-back saga", Burrell formed a Christian rap music group with CCM's Jon Gibson (or "J.G.") called Holy Ghost Boys. A part of additional record labels, he has associated, collaborated and recorded with VMF, Tupac Shakur, Teddy Riley, Felton Pilate, Tha Dogg Pound, The Whole 9, The Hines Brother (Andra Hines & Dunkin Hines), Deion Sanders, Big Daddy Kane, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Jon Gibson. As a result, he has created and produced his own acts including Oaktown's 3.5.7, Special Generation, Analise, DRS, B Angie B, and Wee Wee. Throughout his career, Hammer has managed his own recording business. Prior to becoming ordained, Hammer signed with Suge Knight's Death Row Records by 1995. Hammer was also a television show host and dance judge on Dance Fever in 2003, was co-creator of a dance website called, and is a record label CEO while still performing concerts at music venues and assisting with other social media, ministry and outreach functions. Additionally, he starred in a Saturday-morning cartoon called Hammerman in 1991 and was executive producer of his own reality show called Hammertime which aired on the A&E Network during the summer of 2009. Vibe's "The Best Rapper Ever Tournament" declared him the 17th favorite of all-time during the first round.īurrell became a preacher during the late 1990s with a Christian ministry program on TBN called M.C.
BET ranked Hammer as the #7 "Best Dancer Of All Time". Hammer is considered a "forefather/pioneer" and innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of freestyle music), and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as "U Can't Touch This" and "2 Legit 2 Quit"), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants.Ī multi-award winner, M.C. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. They are part of an unfinished set o.Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. The latter two poems are generally considered his greatest works. His most famous poems were "Corn" (1875), "The Symphony" (1875), "Centennial Meditation" (1876), "The Song of the Chattahoochee" (1877), "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878), and "Sunrise" (1881). In an effort to support Mary and their three sons, he also wrote poetry for magazines. He suffered greatly from this affliction for the rest of his life.
He was incarcerated in a military prison at Point Lookout in Maryland, where he contracted tuberculosis (generally known as "consumption" at the time). Refusing to take the advice of the British officers on board to don one of their uniforms and pretend to be one of them, he was captured. On one of these voyages, his ship was boarded. Later, he and his brother Clifford served as pilots aboard English blockade runners. He fought in the Civil War, primarily in the tidewater region of Virginia, where he served in the Confederate signal corps. He attended Oglethorpe University near Milledgeville, Georgia, graduating first in his class shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War. He began playing the flute at an early age, and his love of that musical instrument continued throughout his life. "Sydney Lanier,"was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson he was mostly of English ancestry, with his distant French ancestors having immigrated to England in the 16th century.