Portrait of Stanley Burrell, a.k.a M.C. Hammer, rap singer holding a microphone. He is wearing a dress shirt and tie with suspenders. He is also wearing sunglasses and a considerable amount of jewelry. Clipping on back: January 10, 1992, "Hammer received the loudest cheers, but it was an emotional day for Bill Russell, right." June 28, 1992, "Top left, clockwise: Rap megastar Hammer does what he does best on the Coliseum stage this week; young Stanley Burrell, a mainstay around the A's baseball field, was a Hank Aaron ringer. In this 1975 Trib photo, the Little Hammer finally got to meet the Big Hammer- on, heaven; Hammer shares a laught with the Warriors' Chris Mullin during filming of the rapper's video this year. At left: Hammer as a KFC (and Pepsi) spokesman.