MC Hammer
Acting
Born 1962-03-30
Oakland, California, USA
53 credits
Grammy Awards 1
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song 1
Awards
Won 1 Grammy Award
Grammy Awards 1 won
- 1991 Best Music Video Won
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song 1 won
- 1992 Worst Original Song Won Addams Groove
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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 multi-award winner, Hammer is considered a "forefather" and pioneering innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of freestyle music), and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status with his album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em.
BET ranked Hammer as the No. 7 "Best Dancer of All Time". Vibe's "The Best Rapper Ever Tournament" declared him the 17th favorite of all-time during the first round. He continues to perform concerts at music venues and appears in television advertisements, along with participating in social media and ministry/outreach functions.
Along with a Mattel doll and other merchandise, Hammer starred in a Saturday-morning cartoon called Hammerman in 1991. He became an ordained preacher during the late 1990s and hosted M.C. Hammer and Friends, a Christian ministry program on TBN. Hammer was also a dance judge on Dance Fever in 2003, was the co-creator of the dance website DanceJam.com, and was executive producer of his own reality show titled Hammertime (which aired on the A&E Network during the summer of 2009).
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Filmography
Acting
47 credits
Saturday Night Live
The View
Infinite Challenge
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
MTV Video Music Awards
Uncle Grandpa
Martin
Behind the Music
American Music Awards
Beat Shazam
Where Are They Now?
Last Action Hero
Zoolander 2
Yo! MTV Raps
The New Tom Green Show
Private Parts
The Surreal Life
Out All Night
Hammerman
Black in the 80s
The Hip Hop Years
One Tough Bastard
Vanilla Ice Archive
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
Cheyenne
Hammertime
Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson
Dance Fever
The Making of "The Addams Family"
The Right Connections
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
The '91 Falcons
Letter to the President
Surviving a Break-Up
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
Katt Williams: Pimpadelic
Rhapsody
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Reggie's Prayer
1040: Christianity in the New Asia
I Hate the Way I Look
40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie
The Swingin' A's
Greatest Hits of the 70's & 80's
Other credits
5 credits
Writing
3 credits
Directing
1 credit
Producing
1 credit
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