MC Hammer, born Stanley Kirk Burrell, was born in 1962 in Oakland, California. His father was a professional poker player and his mother, with whom he and his eight siblings grew up, was a secretary.

This shop is still spinning. Rock and Soul, the Midtown-based record store credited with nurturing the early careers of Mark ...

Everybody's heard MC Hammer's 1990 hit, "U Can't Touch This". Its music video is pretty popular too, having racked up more than 612-million views on YouTube. Video of MC Hammer - U Can&#039 ...

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 ...