MC Hammer's Next Act: Tech Entrepreneur

January 2, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer MC Hammer's Next Act: Tech Entrepreneur

MC Hammer, Chief Strategy Officer for DanceJam.com, poses for a photograph as a dancer performs near Pier 41 in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007. The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube to become the Internet\'s hub for sharing and watching dance videos. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

(AP) -- MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him - only this time around he'll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.



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