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A secret home camera videotape showing Michael Jackson's final moments is among crucial evidence missing from the house where the singer died, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

And as some of The Jackson Family charge "foul play" in his untimely death, an ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered startling details of a massive cover-up by insiders who hid drugs and "sanitized" the death scene.

What's more, The ENQUIRER has obtained chilling details of what Michael's bodyguards saw at the multimillion-dollar mansion on June 25 as the King of Pop's life drained away at age 50.

Michael had an elaborate security system - but critical video evidence was removed before investigators obtained their first search warrant, according to authorities.

"It was a very sophisticated and high-tech surveillance and security system," revealed a police source. "Not only were there cameras outside the house, but there were cameras inside as well - in private locations.

"Insiders close to the investigation say Michael's death - possibly his murder - was captured on camera, but the video has not been recovered.

"There are also gaps in some security camera footage stored on computer hard drives. Police are combing through personal computers recovered from the house."

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Wyclef Jean on the Man Who Left Him Speechless

July 2009

My first meeting with Michael was when I was 22. Michael Jackson called me and said he was coming to see me — I was recording at the Hit Factory and he was working on an album and needed some music. He's the only person in my life where, when I saw him, my whole voice-box went. I didn't know what to say. My hands were trembling. He seemed a little shy, but very approachable.

He talked about how he went to Jamaica when he was young and he said I reminded him of somebody there with the long hair. I was like, "Are you talking about Bob Marley?" And he was like, "Yeah!" He thought I was from Jamaica.


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Song Analysis: Morphine

People often struggle with allowing artists to grow and evolve. For Bob Dylan it was considered sacrilege by many to pick up an electric guitar; for the Beatles, the shift from sentimental love songs to social statements and psychedelia caused them to lose, in some people's minds, their initial charm and mass appeal.

For Michael Jackson, the conventional wisdom meant every album post-Thriller that didn't sound or sell like Thriller was considered a failure; this, in spite of the fact that some of his most significant and challenging work came later. Call it the curse of expectational stasis.

Still, for those who gave Blood on the Dancefloor: HIStory in the Mix a serious listen, it was an impressive record indeed. Containing just five new songs, the album is considered an artistic breakthrough by some. "His singing on the first five tracks of new material has never been so tormented, or audacious," wrote Armond White of Village Voice. "'Blood on the Dancefloor' has the vitality of an intelligence that refuses to be placated. . .[It] is a throwdown, a dare to the concept of innocuous Black pop."

In a 1997 review, The New York Times' Neil Strauss concurred: "There is real pain and pathos in these new songs... Jackson's pain is often the world's merriment, and this is probably true of his new songs, which fret about painkillers, sexual promiscuity and public image. In many of them, Jackson seems like the elephant man, screaming that he is a human being... In keeping with Jackson's darker mood, the music has grown more angry and indignant. With beats crashing like metal sheets and synthesizer sounds hissing like pressurized gas, this is industrial funk... Creatively, Jackson has entered a new realm."

In the gritty, haunting "Morphine," Jackson tackles a subject he never had before: drug addiction. To a relentless, industrial funk beat, the singer lashes out in visceral bursts of anger, aggression, and pain. "Is truth a game daddy," he screams out at one point. "To win the fame baby/It's all the same baby/You're so reliable." The rage and disappointment, combined with its ear-assaulting sound (music critic Tom Sinclair described it as "alternating Trent Reznor-style sturm und clang with Bacharachian orchestral pomp"), make for a jarring listening experience, particularly for those accustomed to the breezier melodic pop of Off the Wall and Thriller (though it should be noted that songs like "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and "Billie Jean" were already beginning to uncover the complexity, paranoia and pain represented in these later tracks). But "Morphine" is best viewed as an experiment -- both sonically and lyrically -- in representing the experience of physical/psychological pain as well as its temporary release via narcotic pain relievers like demerol and morphine (both of which Jackson has been reportedly addicted to, on and off, since the early Nineties).

This experience is also brilliantly conveyed in the song's form: About mid-way through the track, the grating beat subsides, symbolically representing the pacifying effect of the drug. "Relax, this won't hurt you," Jackson sings soothingly from the perspective of the drug.



Before I put it in
Close your eyes and count to ten
Don't cry
I won't convert you
There's no need to dismay
Close your eyes and drift away

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol

He's tried
Hard to convince her
To be over what he had
Today he wants it twice as bad
Don't cry
I won't resent you
Yesterday you had his trust
Today he's taking twice as much

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol

These verses are perhaps some of the most poignant (and tragic) Jackson has ever sung. Beyond the literalness of the drug itself is Jackson's persistent yearning to escape from pain, loneliness, confusion, and relentless pressure. In this brief interlude he beautifully conveys the soothing, seductive, but temporary release from reality. There is a sense of pleading, of desperation, before the high abruptly ends, and the listener is slammed back into the harsh world of accusations and anguish. Sputnik Music described this musical sequence as a "moment of absolute genius." The song, written and composed entirely by Jackson, is one of his most experimental and brilliant creations. It is a confession, a personal intervention, a witness, and a warning.

[Note: This analysis of "Morphine" was written before Michael Jackson's death. It becomes all the more tragic given reports that narcotics like demerol and morphine may have contributed to his passing.]

Y'all blinding me with those big ass pics!!

Seriously though, can someone explain to me how Michael cand walk and dance with this gaping wound/necrosis on his leg? He must have been in agony. He should have been hospitalized and weaned off drugs at the onset of that leg decay. that shit doesn't happen in healthy people.


http://www.telegraph.co.u...abuse.html

DesireeNevermind said:

Well, at least you haven't been blinded by Painted's Phimosis pictures again that she put in my thread.....



Anyway, More MJ pictures

NastradumasKid said:

wha???? i don't want to look but i must

Chic35 said:

What? try maybe recording an album within a 10 year gap? There's alot he could have "went to work" on before it came to being forced into in 50 concert series.

eitherway, I still don't believe he faked his death. If his health was in such bad shape as you yourself just said then YES he did die.

Not even to mention He spent a good chunck of his adult life trying to keep his ass out of jail. If he thinks that was scary, he 'ain't seen nothin' yet' if he were to get caught.
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EmeraldSkies said:

those kids are going to be stalked for the rest of their lives

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Of Course!!! It's saddens me to think that these kids are just want to have a normal life and they can't even have that much.

matthewgrant said:

It is obvious MJ didn't give a damn about his finances. Michael would set up agreements to do work and then later back out of most of the deals, as a no show. His addiction took a front seat.

Copycat said:

it is so refreshing to see that some authors had done their homework regarding jackson's music

"On the photographs of Michael Jackson, it looks like there was necrosis on his lower leg where there might have been fluid that went into his lower leg," a possible result of an IV that had leaked into the leg, Dr. Debra Jaliman, a leading dermatologist and spokeswoman for the American Academy of Dermatology, told ABC News.

"It looks like there are multiple puncture points from IV placement," she said.

The wound seen in the photos, which were taken in 2002, could have been a result of contact with highly caustic, acidic fluid that would burn the skin and cause it to turn black, Jaliman said.

"If, in fact, he had an IV here, and the IV fluid, which may have been acidic fluid, went into his skin, it might may have, in fact, destroyed the skin," she said. "That's all dead skin that would then make an ulceration underneath that skin."

In the photos, Jaliman highlighted areas of blue discoloration in Jackson's leg and puncture marks, which she said point to needle entry.

"If you look at his lower leg you can see puncture points here, so it looks like there was a needle entry here, possibly a needle entry here on his leg," she told ABC News.

Jaliman called the practice of placing an IV in a leg "very unusual."





"In 22 years of training, I've never seen an IV placed in the legs. You would put, you know, IVs in hands, arms, but oftentimes in my training when I have dealt with people who didn't have veins anymore in their hands or arms, you look for veins that you can use and sometimes you have to look in other areas of the body," Jaliman said.


Reports of prescription drug abuse had dogged Jackson for much of his career.

Marc Schaffel, a long-time adviser to Jackson, said the star was dangerously addicted to the painkiller Demerol, as well as to a cocktail of other opioid drugs, such as Oxycontin.

"It's Michael who wanted the drugs -- Michael who was doing it. Nobody could stop Michael except Michael himself," Schaffel said. "If, in fact, the family was able to spend time with him over the last couple years, they would know he was on drugs."

I heard that the leg pics are old and it's from a spider bite.

NastradumasKid said:

OfftheWall said:

I have never seen those thanks for posting them

StillDirrty said:

I was just about to ask when those pictures were taken. i think you're right.



from when he was in court for those millennium concerts it was claimed he was supposed to do but pulled out of.
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It's a spider bite alright!

i'm gonna miss that smile

Wow- this was taken four months ago the trial?

Countthedays said:

StillDirrty said:

that's exactly where they're from, when he was in court in 2002 or 2003. i remember he said he couldn't go because it was a really bad bite and the Respondent said he was bluffing so he had to get a doctor to verify or something. anyway, he gave an interview and showed his leg which is when these pix were taken. some pointed out the vitiligo then.

i guess we really don't have media anymore, just talking heads who do absolutely no research whatsoever.

^^ right it was 2002, they popped up then. It isn't exclusive nor were they private pictures.

EmeraldSkies said:

I can't stomach y'all lusting after him It's pretty sick & this pic is assault - I could totally sue

Seriously folks... wtf??