M C Hammer Accomplishments

Stanley Kirk Burrell, best known as M.C. Hammer is a famous pop rapper artist, dancer, actor and entrepreneur from Oakland California. His famous life started in 1980s until 1990s when he recorded “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”. Hammer is also famous for his dance style and choreographies that had impressed other famous artists. During his music career he has sold more than 50 million records and competed with other hip hop icons (Billboard, 2016). Also, Hammer had participated in TV shows which people could follow and know what the real Hammer’s life was. Even thought American music has significant Pop Rap artists, M.C. Hammer is considered as a pioneer who had changed the innovation of pop rap by incorporating freestyle music and

Because of his freestyle music, people started to follow him and accept that type of music that was different from other rap music. Also, people started liking his songs and the way he played the songs. Youngest people became familiar with his songs and started making a smash within Hammer’s famous songs such as u can’t touch this, turn this moutha out, super freak, 2 legit 2 quit, have you seen her and pray. These songs were his top songs, where he achieved Billboard diamond, Grammys, American Music, People’s choice and NAACP image awards (Billboard, 2016).

All those awards helped him to become a legacy within the pop rap culture because he has influenced and has been influenced by great hip hop artists as Kurtis Blow, James Brown, Big Daddy Kane and Michael Jackson who are also known as music

Hammer did not only focus his career in music. He wanted to do something different and show his personal life to the public by doing a TV show. The purpose of his TV show was to project his normal life to people so everyone was able to see his real day-to-day life. According to a New York Times publisher Ginia Bellafante, “Hammertime goes into race-politics overload to prove that black rappers can be top-grade family men ascribing to yuppie values” (Ginia Bellafante, June 12, 2009). In other words, Hammer’s TV show was to demonstrated that being a famous black rapper did not take him away for certain responsibilities as family. This might be an idea that most people have about famous people that they just dedicated their life to spend money and to do controversial appearances.

M.C. Hammer not only participated on TV shows, he also participated in a movie called Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em: The Movie. It came out in 1990 and was about Hammer’s personal life as a child who had to fight with a neighborhood full of drugs and alcohol. The movie got awards because people voted for the best film in the year. People liked to watched how Hammer became an artist, and how he influenced other black people who lived the same situation and who could change their life style by dedicating time to the music; especially to hip hop and rap music between the 1980’s and 1990’s (Billboard,