posted February 20, 2008 03:40 AM            

MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American
Rapper 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 Get in Hammer's Pants. He became a preacher in the 1990s and
now works as a television show host and CEO.

Burrell wanted to be a professional baseball player, but he did not
catch on in any professional organization. He instead joined the Navy,
where he served with Patron (Patrol Squadron) Forty Seven (VP-47) of
Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, as a Petty Officer Third
Class Aviation Store Keeper (AK3) until his honorable discharge

The "Pump It Up" video was added to the roster of "new wave" hip-hop
videos that premiered or re-aired on the premiere season of Yo! MTV
Raps. It depicted hip-hop legends Run-DMC getting disrespected by
Hammer. The album eventually went triple-platinum (more than 3 million
units sold). "Turn This Mutha Out" (the album's biggest hit), "Feel My
Power", and "They Put Me in the Mix" saw heavy rotation on R&B/Hip-Hop
radio stations throughout late 1988 into 1989.

His second album, 1990s Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, included the
smash single "U Can't Touch This", which sampled Rick James' 1981 hit
"Super Freak". Interestingly, despite heavy airplay, "U Can't Touch
This" stopped at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the fact
that it was released only as a twelve-inch single. Follow-up hits
included "Have You Seen Her" (cover of the Chi-Lites); and "Pray",
which had a beat sampled from Prince's "When Doves Cry" and was his
biggest hit in the US, peaking at #2. The album went on to become the
first hip-hop album to reach diamond status, selling more than 10
million units.

Hammer's sampling of large portions of well-known pop oldies (as
opposed to short James Brown or George Clinton funk riffs) has
increasing popularity among mainstream rappers, particularly Diddy's
Bad Boy Records stable. Other examples include Eminem's Like Toy
Soldiers which samples nearly the entire chorus from Martika's
similarly-named 1989 hit.

A critical backlash began brewing over the repetitive nature of his
lyrics, his clean-cut image, and his perceived over-reliance on
sampling others' hooks for the basis of his singles - criticisms which
were are also directed toward his contemporary, Vanilla Ice

Hammer also began the trend of rap artists being accepted as
mainstream pitchmen. Prior to Hammer, it was virtually unheard of for
a hip-hop artist to be seen in a major commercial spot. Hammer
appeared in major marketing campaigns for companies such as Pepsi and
Taco Bell to the point that he was criticized as a "sell-out". Today,
many rappers appear in various major commercials and market their own
clothing lines, such as Jay-Z, Nelly, and P. Diddy. Ironically, two of
Hammer's biggest detractors, LL Cool J and Run D.M.C., appeared
together in a Dr Pepper ad during Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Because of dwindling album sales and a lavish lifestyle, Hammer, who
was $13 million in debt, filed for bankruptcy on April 3, 1996.

Hammer reaffirmed his Christian beliefs in October 1997. He is now an
ordained minister and has a television show on the Trinity
Broadcasting Network. Hammer has officiated at the celebrity weddings
of actor Corey Feldman and Susie Sprague on 30 October 2002 and Mötley
Crüe's Vince Neil and Lia Gerardini in January 2005.

Philip Sedgwick keywords:
Positive - liberation from addictions to success or status, clear
priorities regarding matters of love and money, finally getting you
can't take it with you and applying full resourcefulness in life,
recognition of the potency of one's energy and life force, clear sense
of the sacred marriages: spirit to body, self to Creator, between
soulful companions, personal sense of emergence.
Negative - greed, workaholism, believe that you must take over for
God, general sense of being forsaken, condemned or abandoned, lack of
spiritual regard for life, superficial, status oriented. http://www.philipsedgwick.com/

Roy MacKinnon keywords:
Striving to achieve one's goals and refusing to capitulate to the
pressure of unjust treatment and discord from abusive authority : with
great inner conviction and single-mindedness of purpose following a
path of high attainment and enlightenment notwithstanding adversity -
alternatively refusing the call to transform with mediocrity and
underachievement as consequences: issues around power abuse of
minorities, the defenceless, the alien: networks, multinational
countries and companies, the world- wide web: piracy, terrorism, clash
of ideologies: conflict between desires of personality and pursuit of
the inner call: persecution of the spiritually aware person who stands
alone courageously acting according to conscience: an outstanding
individual ahead of the times.

Eris in 10'05 Aries
conjunct Sun in 9'37 Aries
sextile Saturn in 9'16 Aquarius
68'48(golden section aspect)to Moon - '33

March 30, 1962 (same birthday as my girlfriend )
11:59 AM
Oakland,California

The Golden Section: A Cosmic Principle by Theodor Landscheidt http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/consider.htm