MC Hammer not actually a fan of hammers
'Using hammers is always a scary proposition, man.'
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Your support makes all the difference.MC Hammer, who gave rise to Hammer pants, the cartoon Hammerman and reality show Hammertime, doesn’t actually like hammers, it has emerged.
In news that will come as a shock to fans of 90s hip-hop pop bangers everywhere, the rapper admitted: “Using hammers is always a scary proposition, man.
“You can hit your fingers,” he told The Huffington Post. “So I try my best to not have to hammer too many things.”
Of course, MC Hammer aficionados will know that the 54-year-old didn’t take his name from the hand tool, but was given it as a nickname by Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson while he was working at the Oakland A’s clubhouse as a kid.
“You look a lot like Hammerin’ Hank Aaron and I’m [going to] call you the little Hammer,” Jackson told Hammer - real name Stanley Kirk Burrell - when he was nine.
Next you’ll be telling me Flava Flav has no sense of taste.
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