MC Hammer News

MC Hammer plans companion piece for 1990 hit album

Aug 14, 2009 4:00 pm PDT

MC Hammer doesn't want to hurt 'em. Again. The veteran rapper (real name Stanley Burrell) is planning a 20th anniversary "companion" album to his 1990 breakthrough, "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em," which spent 21 weeks at ...

MC Hammer's cousin appears in court on rape charge

Aug 10, 2009 6:00 pm PDT

A cousin of MC Hammer who appears on the rapper's cable TV reality show has been charged in California with raping a 40-year-old woman he met through an online social networking site. Marvin Grant did not enter a plea during a court appea...

MC Hammer's cousin accused of rape in California

Jul 31, 2009 5:00 am PDT

Police in Northern California say a cousin of rapper MC Hammer has been accused of raping a woman he met on the social networking site Twitter. KPIX-TV reports that 33-year-old Marvin Grant was arrested for investigation of rape Thursday ...

MC Hammer to focus on family, business in TV show

Feb 26, 2009 5:00 pm PST

Viewers of MC Hammer's new reality TV show shouldn't expect to see him lounging around the house in baggy pants. The 1990s rap music sensation says "Hammertime" will give viewers a glimpse of his 16-hour days as a businessman, computer ge...

MC Hammer's next act: Tech entrepreneur

Jan 3, 2008 1:00 am PST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — only this time around he'll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hammer, whose...