thesexofit said:

There was an album titled "Humanity" and was going to be released on Randy's label but it never saw the light of day

3T's first album did really well, but in '98 Michael started having problems with Sony and they shelved all MJJ Music projects in the process. They didn't get out of the contract until 2001 and the album they did called "Deja Vu" hasn't been released. They DID do an album in 2004 called "Identity" that was released in Europe. It's okay

bboy87 said:

Cool that 3T did finally do something, but obviously too little too late, as I remember them being quite big in the UK around 1996 or whenever. A natural followup around 1998 coulda been just as sucsessful, as boybands were still in full swing around then.

"Anything" was a big hit in the UK. I remember it well! I was surprised that it was self written. They had potential anyway....shame.

I know Jermaine got involved with the Jacksons:american dream project (and had 2 songs off the OST), but since then?

thesexofit said:

Yep, Tarryl does well for himself. He's a songwriter and Taj is directing an online sci fi show

TJ is being a father

bboy87 said:

They can't sing

bboy87 said:

Cool to see Tarryl still in the music business. The first 3T album was perfect timing.
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bboy87 said:

Michael totally disrespected the fans on the Jacksons F.H. show and in the Victory Tour.

In the Victory tour, he had been forced to hire greedy concert promoters by his father. Those promoters dealed a ticket price with Joe without consulting Michael. HOWEVER, Michael was a grown man and didn't have to hire his father. He knew Joe was greedy and would do everything to leech off of his fans. I know that Michael made up for his father's mistake...but damnit! Fans got pissed!

Let's not even talk about that Family Honors show: could Michael have been more disrespectful towards his fans? Sad day in the Michael Jackson land. What a shame! Booed by his own fans. I would boo him too. All Michael did, in that show, was embarrass himself and his fans.

It's quite obvious that he lost many fans with this bullshit. Geez...they not only had to put up with the molestation charges, but also with him ripping them off. Sad!
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MOL said:

When you hire Don King to promote your tour, expect some shady shit LOL. Mike hated Don apparantly, and refused to speak to him after the disaster that was the press conferance for the tour. That and the supposed comments Don made to Mike saying he will always be a nigger (Iam paraphrasing here but its along those lines). Mike was apparantly REALLY pissed off with that remark!

That and the whole ticket pricing scandel at the start. No question that the whole ticket thing lost him some black fans. Mike tried to compensate by giving all his money from the tour to charity. Did the other brothers? You bet they didn't LOL.

Jackson family honours was something Mike was no dout begged to do by his mother. Just like the victory tour from accounts I read.

thesexofit said:

Yes, I know. When he was accused of pedophilia, the first thing the family did when they saw him, was pressure him to appear on that show. His mother also begged him to do the Victory Tour. The Jacksons always used Michael. The Jacksons always exploited Michael. The Jacksons always took advantage of Michael.

It's always the same thing. This shit never happens with other artists! Has this ever happened to Prince? NO. Has this ever happened to anyone else? NO.

There are limits. Michael constantly delayed his career and shitted all over the fans because of his family. There comes a time in life where one should learn to say "no!". Michael was easily manipulated, controlled, tooken advantage of. Everybody took advantage of him. It's not everybody's fault. It's Michael's. He LET everybody take advantage of him. Damn; he should have stand up and yell that he wasn't going to do something that only benefited his family. He thought he owed everyone favors, but his fans. After telling Oprah that Joe had abused him (to put it mildly), he apologized to his father by phone and gave him a brand new car. He thought he ought to be everyone's slave and not complain. I don't understand that! Can you imagine where would Michael's career be, by now, if he wasn't so dumb?

And we, the fans, wait and see. Prince, for example, may be rude, antipathetic, evil and blah blah blah...but he is always giving his fans music. He is always giving his fans somethings new. He never let anyone delay his career. Yeah, Prince may "hate" his fans, cancel shows a day before with no explanation, be rude to the ones who support him...but, still, the ones who support him always have a reason to do so. They are constantly being compensated for the man's behaviour.
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MOL said:

aint nobody talkin bout no damn leonard rowe and you know that.AEG was the promoters for this is it and they were footing the bill for his house and his doctor. maybe you should take your own advice and stop speaking on shit you know nothing about, such as michael and his family.

MOL said:

Just curious why did he get booed , I heard so many things about the jacksons family honors I never bother to study that event lol

lowkey said:

Stop it! The perfect family shield is no longer active. Everyone knows that family's true colours, alright? Stop making excuses for them. Some people don't deserve respect. Guess what? Most of the Jacksons don't deserve it.

APPARENTLY, AEG hired the doctor so that he would take care of Michael. Therefore, AEG paid for that expense. HOWEVER, people like Dileo claim Michael paid the doctor.
Michael was paying the rent . Not AEG. The person that rented the house said so. However, if I was in MIchael's shoes I would make AEG pay for it.

So, once again, you're wrong. BTw, take my advice: no one sees the Jacksons through the shield anymore, honey. It's not that easy to hide monsters in closets. Sorry!!!
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MOL said:

You read that unauthorized book LOL? Its a hatchet job (i.e, very anti Mike), but boy is it interesting LOL. Shame it was never updated past 1993. Gotta take alot of it with a grain of salt, but no doubt some of it is true.

babybugz said:

The Jacksons, once again, wanted to use Michael. Therefore, they made his life a living hell; they pressured/hounded him to appear io that damn show...and Michael had just been accused of paedophilia, so he was fragile. Michael appeared on the show...but didn't sing, dind't dance, dind't do shit. He didn't want to be there but his family wanted him there. And the fans who pay big bucks got disappointed. Just like I would.
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thesexofit said:

No, I didn't. Besides, I just believe in 0.0001% of what I read about Michael. I know that he was a beautiful, pure, kind and loving person.

BTW, Christopher Anderson (the author of the book you mentioned) is a celebrity hater. I don't believe him. And, if you read the book, don't believe in it. My advice.

MOL said:

Like I said, I take it with a grain of salt. Believe me I know when the media is lying. Book goes into detail about Jordy etc... including how the father doped him up at some dentist etc... very shady, but I know whats real and whats bullshit.

thesexofit said:

Christopher also claims MJ didn't want Janet to be successful or somethiing like that. IT'S B.S..

The book is B.S..

BklynBabe said:

remember she wanted to go into business law before Joe forced her to sing. she knew what to do probably from school and having grow up amongst other elite and privileged children.

MOL said:

I know. As I said, I can seperate the half truths from the complete bullocks.

When it all comes down to it ... it's family. We all have family members, sometimes they need help, so we gonna (sometimes have too) help them. More than anyone, you don't wanna see your family down.

Hell, it my be you needin' the help. I know all of us have been that person that asked a family member for help.

And why are we comparin' Prince in this situation? P doesn't have 8 sibling who at one time or another were releasing albums on a constant basis.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

You know prince always come up in a Michael Convo

MOL said:

guess what, they not looking for your respect. im not making excuses for them but im not gonna sit on a computer and blame them for everything that went wrong in michael's life.there are alot of people that would tell you to stop making excuses for michael, and there are people who consider michael a monster.

MOL said:

First off, you need to start researching a little more.

Michael didn't disrespect his fans on the Victory Tour. He didn't hire his father. Joe and Katherine hired Don King to do the promoting, but after the controversy, brought in different promoters. Michael had FRANK DILEO speak on his behalf and donated all the money he recieved from the tour to charity

And The Jackson Family Honors.....how did Michael disrespect the fans? He wasn't booed because of the charges, there was alot of booing that night because the promoters realized Michael wasn't performing. Michael agreed to make an appearance and present the awards, but he never agreed to perform

If you look at the special, you'd see that some of the only people who weren't booed were Michael and Janet

ehuffnsd said:

Janet wanted to do business law, LaToya wanted to model, and Jackie wanted to play basketball

Jermaine Jackson: Lawyers, money can't divide family

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's family gathered Tuesday for an early Thanksgiving dinner, determined not to let money and fame pull it apart, the pop icon's oldest brother said.

"That's really, really important because we're a family and throughout the years, the managers, the agents and Hollywood have tried to come between that," Jermaine Jackson said. "What they don't know is we were together before we came out here and we're going to continue to be together."

Jackson spoke to CNN at a Tuesday morning screening of his brother's "This Is It" movie for inner-city students in Los Angeles.

He said he has stayed away from the Michael Jackson estate legal battle, which pitted his mother's lawyer against his father's lawyer earlier this month.

"When there's a lot of fame and fortune and attorneys, accountants and advisers and managers and agents, it gets like this," Jermaine Jackson said. "But at the same time, my mother is the boss and regardless of what the executors want to do at the end of the day, she has the say."

When family matriarch Katherine Jackson dropped her legal challenge of the men named in Michael Jackson's will to run his estate, family patriarch Joe Jackson's lawyer was launching his own challenge. This set off a bitter courtroom battle between the lawyers for the Jackson parents.

"She has now reneged on her obligation to her family," Joe Jackson's lawyer, Brian Oxman, told the judge. He said Katherine Jackson's reversal was "one of the most despicable displays" he's ever seen in court.

Oxman accused her of reaching a secret deal -- behind Joe Jackson's back -- with the men who control their son's estate.

Jermaine Jackson said despite what you may read, the Jackson family will "pull together."

"There's strength in numbers, and when there's a family like ours, we pull together," he said. "We find strength within each other."

Katherine Jackson does not celebrate holidays because of her religion -- she a Jehovah's Witness -- but the Jackson brothers, sisters, and their children do traditionally gather for one day Thanksgiving week, he said. Tuesday is the day, he said.

"And it's really tough because Michael's no longer with us, but he'll always be with us in spirit, but you just continue to move on," he said.

Michael Jackson's three children -- Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7 -- are "doing great" and are "best friends" with his children, Jermaine Jackson said.

"They're doing well," he said. "They're getting their lessons done. They have wonderful tutors and programs, they're getting a chance to go out and do things. They're getting a chance to travel."

An A&E network reality TV series that focuses on the lives of four of the Jackson brothers -- Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon -- debuts next month.

Filming of "The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty" -- in the works before Michael Jackson's June 25 death -- is about to wrap, he said.

He said his main job now is to promote his brother's legacy.

Jermaine Jackson walked down the red carpet with dozens of students before the "This Is It" screening. Michael Jackson's vocal coach and several musicians featured in show also were there.

Los Angeles artist David Ilan, who is creating a Michael Jackson tribute portrait with 1 million hand-drawn dots, added a dot on his artwork for each of them.

The technique, "pointillism," allows Jackson fans worldwide to sign up online to have a dot added in their name. The charity project's Web site is www.MichaelJacksonTributePortrait.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/S...cnn_latest

bboy87 said:

Latoya wanted to go to law school but Joe so nope, Janet wanted to be a horse jockey first but then wanted to go to law school and support herself by acting and Jackie wanted to be a baseball player. He actually got drafted into the Chicago white sox when he was 19 but turned it down for music.

midiscover said:

i didn't know he actually got drafted

babybugz said:

well....it is a Prince fan board


....yeah, so last time I looked, those kids had done nothing but travel with michael and do things.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

You just said it all, bruh

midiscover said:

bboy87 said:

That was my reaction too!