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Tonga Room Hosts MC Hammer’s Birthday, and Willie Brown Was There

Two of these people were not at the party.
Two of these people were not at the party. Photo: Courtesy of Hammer’s Twitter

Local former rap star MC Hammer, who’s lately been more of a Twitter pundit with over 2 million followers, had a birthday party for 300 guests at the Tonga Room last week, and Willie Brown appears to have stopped by. He describes a crowd in which “Half of them were in white suits, white ties and white shoes, which apparently is a Hammer thing.” Also, in straining to understand why Hammer is still famous, Brown remarks that his Twitter fame, with all his music recommendations, has made him like “an Internet version of that old Saturday morning dance program, ‘Soul Train.’” [Chron]

Tonga Room Hosts MC Hammer’s Birthday, and Willie Brown Was There