

I really believe in the butterfly effect. My real, true answer is I wouldn't change one thing. "Some people ask me sometimes, would I go back and change things?" he says. I had a payroll of a million dollars a month at times." "I didn't just take the money and say, 'I want to be a blessing to myself.' I took my money and employed 200 people in my community. Hammer filed for bankruptcy in 1996, but today, he says his debt wasn't a matter of losing his head. But, just five years later, Hammer-born Stanley Burrell-was reportedly in debt to the tune of $13 million. Fashion may have moved on, but his album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em is still one of the best-selling hip-hop albums of all time.įorbes Magazine estimated Hammer's net worth at more than $33 million in 1991. In the early '90s, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" or seeing someone wearing his signature parachute pants.
