Police: MC Hammer pulled over for expired tags

MC Hammer arrives at will.i.am's Annual TRANS4M Concert benefiting the I.Am.Angel Foundation on Feb. 7, 2013, in Hollywood, Calif. / Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images for TRANS4M

A sheriff's department spokesman in Northern California says a police officer stopped and then arrested '90s rap star MC Hammer because he was driving a car with expired registration and refused to get out of the vehicle.

Lt. Herb Walters of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said in a statement issued Monday that Hammer was "very argumentative" with the officer during the traffic stop late Thursday in Dublin, Calif. He says it's unclear who owns the car.

• MC Hammer arrested, suggests racial profiling

Hammer eventually came out of the car and was arrested for investigation of obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties.

Hammer, who was born Stanley Burrell, has offered a different account, suggesting he was the victim of racial profiling. He tweeted on Saturday that the officer asked him if he were on parole or probation and tried to pull him out through the car window.

"It was comical to me until he pulled out his guns, blew his whistle and yelled for help," Hammer tweeted. "But make no mistake he's dangerous...only thing more dangerous than a scared man with a gun, is a scared man with an agenda, a gun and a badge. I was cited for obstruction."

Hammer added: "Instead of being bitter, I'm taking the opportunity to make this a 'teachable moment' and 'eye opener' for my many friends & colleagues."

Hammer had hits with "Too Legit to Quit" and "Can't Touch This" in the '90s.

[stupa5]

Another black rapper who thinks he's better than everybody else & above the law! sshut your trap Stanly!

[Wisdomspeak7]

These types of incidents are much more than racial profiling. In all these years of this country's history, it was unexplainable the deep-seated hatred of the white man for people of color. Were they borned with a racial gene or what? What I have discovered that it's a combination of pride and envy that's not necessarily directed in the Black man's direction, but is derived from the teachings of Islam! In other words, the racist white man is following the teaching of Islam without claiming to be a Muslim! Islam teaches that Muslims are not only superior than everyone who are not Muslims, but they are required to denigrate, humiliate and exact toll from those they deemed inferior if they had not outright killed them ~ the inferior non-Muslims! This is what the white man envies! He wants to believe that he's the one that's superior than everyone else not the Muslim! The racist white man loves the notion that he can especially consider himself superior than the Black man! This perceived liberty in the racial white man's mind is ok because it's sanctioned by the Koran and he has too much pride to admit he's following the teachings of Islam and too much pride to forsake these demonic ways as long as there are Muslims in this world following the destructive teachings of Islam! In addition, it seems the more the white man has trouble with Muslims, they in turn become more aggressive trying to assert that he's superior than someone else ~ hence he's the agitation of the Black MAN, and even for little Black baby boys!