{"id":63298,"date":"2009-12-04T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mc-hammer-becomes-equity-partner-in-cash4gold-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-04T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:44:00","slug":"mc-hammer-becomes-equity-partner-in-cash4gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/63298","title":{"rendered":"MC Hammer Becomes Equity Partner In Cash4Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1944b9000000000038b15b\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mc hammer performing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MC Hammer has always liked spending cash for gold. Now he&#8217;s an equity partner in the booming cash for gold business.<\/p>\n<p>Except this time it&#8217;s MC Hammer who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-host-a-gold-party-2009-11\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">exploiting people<\/span><\/a> profiting.<\/p>\n<p>The eighties pop star was already a spokesperson for Cash4Gold, releasing a viral ad for the company&#8217;s U.K. division in September.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the transcript from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/video\/2009\/sep\/14\/mc-hammer-cash4gold\">video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;U.K. What&#8217;s goin down? It&#8217;s your man MC Hammer. It&#8217;s time to take that gold &#8212; you don&#8217;t need the crown jewels! &#8212; it&#8217;s time to take that gold and get it sold! Send Cash4Gold all your unwanted, your broken jewelry and we&#8217;ll send you cash. And don&#8217;t forget to tell us who would you like to see in our next U.K. commercial. We melt gold, baby!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More coverage at the<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/investing\/gold\/6718613\/Gold-Eighties-pop-star-MC-Hammer-has-become-an-equity-partner-in-the-gold-buying-service-Cash4Gold..html\">Telegraph<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scrapstothefuture\/1879407759\/\"><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mc-hammer-becomes-equity-partner-in-cash4gold-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-tumbles-as-nervous-investors-want-greenbacks-instead-2009-11\">Gold Tumbles, As Nervous Investors Want Greenbacks Instead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-mint-runs-out-of-gold-coins-2009-11\">U.S. Mint Runs Out of Gold Coins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-tips-for-the-first-time-business-owner-2009-9\">10 Tips For The First-Time Business Owner <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Dye2ZI_8oyU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MC Hammer has always liked spending cash for gold. Now he&#8217;s an equity partner in the booming cash for gold business. Except this time it&#8217;s MC Hammer who is exploiting people profiting. The eighties pop star was already a spokesperson for Cash4Gold, releasing a viral ad for the company&#8217;s U.K. division in September. Here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}