MC Hammer Dead? Stanley Kirk Burrell Says "By Grace, I Live ... My Work is Not yet Done..."

MC Hammer dead. That's the search term that's gaining steam on Google Hot Trends that caught my eye yesterday and made me click on it.

Pretty soon, others were searching hard and asking Yahoo answers: "Did MC Hammer die?" "Is MC Hammer really dead?"

I hope MC Hammer isn't dead, I said inside as I read this entry someone reported on their blog, that got passed around to other blogs:

"MC Hammer dead...RIP MC Hammer (Kirk Burrell), Pop Rap icon of the 90's , passed away today in a Baltimore hospital room outside a Tribe Called Quest show in New Jersey last night, the singer was struck by a car passing by the front of the Ventura Theatre. Brunswick police say that the driver allegedly stopped, but then fled the scene. There is now a police investigation underway. Hammer was rushed to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, where he was pronounced dead this morning at 6am. This is a tragedy for the underground music as a whole."

I looked at the evidence surrounding MC Hammer's supposed death, and all these reasons led me to believe that the beloved rapper-turned-reverend was not dead:

1 - When I typed in "MC Hammer dead," "MC Hammer death," or even just "MC Hammer," Google News had no reports of MC Hammer's alleged death by a hit-and-run accident.

2 - Then I searched for "Stanley Kirk Burrell dead," "Stanley Kirk Burrell death," or other variations of "Stanley Kirk Burrell" and found no Google News reports about Stanley Kirk Burrell being listed as dead, which valid news organizations would've surely reported as soon as police were involved.

3 - The only place I found that stated MC Hammer was dead was a forum posting, which has since been deleted.

4 - Wikipedia did not report MC Hammer dead, though they did start that Sinbad death rumor that time...

5- Q-Tip was listed as performing in Baltimore at the Sonar on 10/3, and I'm reading that "A Tribe Called Quest" stole the show at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors to be broadcast Monday (gotta check that out!) but didn't see anything about MC Hammer being hit by a car after any of their shows from legitimate news sources.

MC Hammer says, "I'm not dead!"

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