Examples of MC Hammer Changing History Five Times

MentalFloss.com points out five times MC Hammer has changed history including marrying Corey Feldman and becoming the first rapper to score endorsement deals with Pepsi (NYSE:PEP) and KFC.

(MentalFloss.com) MC Hammer (aka Stanley Kirk Burrell) isn’t just the hip-hop superstar behind “U Can’t Touch This” and “Pump it Up.” He’s an influential figure, touching big events in the last two decades, kind of like a modern-day Forrest Gump. Don’t believe me? Check out these five times that Hammer changed the world.

1. Getting Michael Crabtree SignedMichael Crabtree was a star at Texas Tech and many predicted him to be the top receiver taken in the 2009 NFL Draft. But, like so many times before, Raiders owner Al Davis threw things off by taking Darrius Heyward-Bey, leaving Crabtree to fall to the tenth spot with the San Francisco 49ers. Crabtree thought he deserved as much money as Heyward-Bey for being better in college and refused to sign with the Niners, sitting out several games before finally signing in early October (just after I dropped him from my fantasy team). What finally got the negotiations going? Hammer. While it wasn’t the only factor, or even a big factor at all, Hammer’s presence certainly makes it interesting. Hammer is a friend of Crabtree’s mentor, Deion Sanders, and agent, Eugene Parker, and inexplicably sat in on some of the contract talks. Soon after, Crabtree was signed. 49ers blogger Matt Maiocco even reports that hotel staff overheard Crabtree telling Hammer to “get it done,” so maybe he played a bigger role than we all thought.

2. Saving DanceHammer is most well-known for his dancing, so it’s only fitting that his latest effort would be in that realm. After seeing that there wasn’t a good online community for dancers, Hammer founded DanceJam.com, a social network where people can share videos and comment on different styles of dance. It also allows viewers to slow down videos to examine what the moves are. Hammer told Popular Mechanics that the site was intended to be a “repository of all things dance, and of course again all the way to instructional videos of hot dances of today.”

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