Whatever Happened To MC Hammer?

he went broke and had to sell his house, i think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mc_hammer

MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark Hammer Pants. He became a preacher in the 1990s and now works as a television show host and CEO. He lives in Tracy, California, with his wife Stephanie and six children, three boys and three girls.

Burrell was born in Oakland, California, and graduated from McClymonds High School.

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Due to the success of the Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em album, Hammer had amassed approximately USD$33 million.

$12 million of this total was used to have his home built in Fremont, California, 30 miles (50 km) south of where he grew up. Among the documented features this house had included:

Recording studio
33 stadium seating theater
2 swimming pools (one indoor/one outdoors)
Tennis courts and a baseball diamond
Waterfalls, ponds, and aquariums
Mirrored Bathroom (at least $75,000 (£35,000) in mirrors throughout the house)
$2 Million of Italian marble floors and a floor-to-ceiling gray marble office with customized marble niches for awards.
Marble countertops in the kitchen (the house was heavily decorated in marble)
Massive gold and black marble jacuzzi in the master bedroom
Basketball courts
Bowling alley
17 car garage
Two gold-plated “Hammertime” gates for entrance to the property
A dishwasher installed in his master bedroom for the purpose of “cleaning up after a midnight snack” (as told in the VH1 movie about his life, entitled Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story).
Many of these amenities did little to improve the value of the home.

After the purchase of the home, it left approximately $20 million, the money that was supposedly squandered. After the home, his money went into other things (much described as frivolous):

A fleet of 17 automobiles, including a Lamborghini, a stretch limousine, a Range Rover, and a De Lorean.
Two helicopters.
Investments up to $1 million in Thoroughbred racehorses.
Careless spending on high-priced items like antique golf clubs, Etruscan sculpture, and gold chains for his 4 pet rottweilers.
Extravagant parties financed by Hammer himself.
The huge entourage of over 300 people, most of whom were on his payroll, for total monthly wages of $500,000.
Leased Boeing 727.
In 1991, MC Hammer established Oaktown Stable that would eventually have nineteen Thoroughbred racehorses. In 1991, his outstanding filly Lite Light won several Grade I stakes races including the prestigious Kentucky Oaks. His D. Wayne Lukas-trained colt Dance Floor won the Grade II Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity in 1991 then the following year won the Fountain of Youth Stakes and finished 3rd in the 1992 Kentucky Derby.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Hammer released the patriotic album Active Duty on his own WorldHit label. He donated portions of the proceeds to 9/11 charities. In 2004, he released the Full Blast album. Neither album managed to make the Billboard Charts.[9]

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After his rapid fall from fame and subsequent bankruptcy, MC Hammer spent most of the latter half of the 1990s as a punch line in the music business. In 2000, Nelly, in his breakthrough hit "Country Grammar", announced his intention to "blow 30 mill[ion] like I'm Hammer" [1]. However, in 2000, Hammer received a nod from Mystikal in his song "Mystikal Fever": "Tell em all settle shop down close fo' sho', put it down like 1990 M.C. Hammer, I hope", referring to Hammer's intense and electrifying performance style.

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Pastoral career
Hammer reaffirmed his Christian beliefs in October 1997[13] and now has a television show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.[14] Hammer has officiated at the celebrity weddings of actor Corey Feldman and Susie Sprague on 30 October 2002[15] and Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil and Lia Gerardini in January 2005.[16]

He tried to touch it

Originally posted by zeeblebot
he went broke and had to sell his house, i think.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Obviously never heard of the Sugerhill gang 😛

Originally posted by fred garcia
get up ..slow down.!