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

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.

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 ...