The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think - Plot & Excerpts
Raised by a single mother, Burrell grew up with eight siblings crammed into a small apartment in the East Oakland housing projects. To earn money, the young Burrell sold stray baseballs and danced with a beat box in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot. His energy and flair were so infectious that after seeing him rouse fans while doing splits, Charles O. Finley, owner of the Oakland A’s major-league baseball team, hired eleven-year-old Stanley as a batboy. One of the players thought the new batboy bore a resemblance to baseball legend Hammerin’ Hank Aaron, so they started calling him “Hammer.”By age twenty-seven, Stanley had channeled his performing energies into a career as a superstar musician, known to the public as MC Hammer. The masses went wild over his flamboyant dance moves, trademark parachute pants, and hits such as “U Can’t Touch This.” In 1990, Forbes magazine estimated that the once-poverty-ridden Burrell, having sold over 50 million records, was worth $33 million.Yet only a few years later, in 1996, Burrell was forced to file for bankruptcy.
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