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Watching cubs with my son.  I mentioned MC hammer.  He had no clue who he was.

I said he was like the first internationally popular hip/hop artist and first really popular hip-hop artist in America.

https://www.reddit.com/r/90sHipHop/s/OfxOcgOqWM

Then I read him some posts.  This one is so true and I always tell my kids how smart phones have changed things so much. 

"The thing about being young these days is it's hard to fully explain what being "big" meant in the late 80s to 90s.

There are no modern equivalents, the music industry is just different. There is too much, the media doesn't control the means of consumption as much. Back then you were fed a smaller stream of music. Radio, TV, Magazines, etc.

MC Hammer was so big your parents knew his music, you knew his music, your teachers knew his music, people in Turkey and Brazil knew his music, he had cartoons and shoes and pants and literally saturated every part of your day. You heard him on the way to school, your friends were all about him, you heard him on the way home, you saw him once you were home.

Pop stars don't exist the way they used to."

For a couple of years he was huge.  Pepsi commercials, Taco Bell commmercials, kfc commercials.  Had a cartoon.

Was he the A's ball boy and some of the players invested in him?

Very nice but there is no excuse for there being a need for this



"...A nonprofit has erased more than $40 billion in medical debt across the U.S. People don't apply, they simply receive a letter saying their debt is gone, including one woman whose $3,200 medical bill was wiped away..."

Was he the A's ball boy and some of the players invested in him?

I had no idea:

"Before becoming a global music icon, MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell) worked as an 11-year-old batboy and clubhouse assistant for the Oakland Athletics from 1973 to 1980. Team owner Charlie Finley hired him after spotting the energetic kid breakdancing and selling baseballs in the stadium parking lot.The A's players affectionately nicknamed him "Little Hammer" (later just "Hammer") because of his striking physical resemblance to baseball legend Hank "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron. Beyond just handling bats, the charismatic teen became Finley's close associate, and would spend games in the owner's luxury box calling into Chicago to relay live play-by-play."

That's how he got his name.  That's cool.

So, I wonder why trump switched airplanes?