MC Hammer is up for hammer time as long as it doesn’t involve actual hammers (Picture: Getty)

Say it ain’t so, MC Hammer!

The rapper has made a shocking confession that he doesn’t actually like hammers.

What?!!

He told The Huffington Post: ‘Using hammers is always a scary proposition, man.


‘You can hit your fingers. So I try my best to not have to hammer too many things.’

The musician reportedly got the nickname from Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson while working at Oakland Coliseum’s clubhouse as a kid.

Jackson told the nine-year-old: ‘You look a lot like Hammerin’ Hank Aaron and I’m [going to] call you the little Hammer.’

Guess little Hammer as a rap name doesn’t have quite the same ring to it…



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