Timmy84 said:

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We finally got to see what the crows looked like...lol

Well... not only that

MJ:Billion Dollar Man sadly will only have some fans using this as proof that MJ was murdered for his songs etc.

What they fail to realise though that the ones who profit most from these deals are Michael's kids and Mother - as it should be.

I'm just glad that Michael's value as an entertainer, musician and songwriter is being appreciated.

Re: Michael Jackson-Billion Dollar Man

Thats all very impressive but this isnt the first time that his net worth has pushed past the billion dollar mark, is it? I cant wait for the Cirque shows, the new album and the video game. Next month, Im going to see Captain EO at Disneyland for the first time, a childhood dream come true.

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Captain EO, the 3D movie staring Michael Jackson that once played at Epcot, is returning on July 2.

Michael Jackson along with Disney, producer George Lucas and director Francis Ford Coppola created Captain EO. The 17-minute, 3D film ran at Epcot from 1986 to 1994 before being replaced by Honey I Shrunk the Audience.

Honey, I Shrunk the Audience will close in the next few weeks so they can get the theater ready for Captain EO’s return. It’s expected to be a limited run, maybe just for the Summer Nightastic promotion.

Captain EO was perhaps one of the first 4D movies in that it incorporated laser effects, smoke effects and starfields that filled the theater. The 3D technology certainly foreshadowed what was to come.

Captain EO also will return to two other Disney parks. It will open at Tokyo Disneyland on June 30 and Disneyland Paris on June 12.

Here’s a video taken earlier this year when Captain EO returned to Disneyland in California.

http://attractionsmagazin...on-july-2/

mookie said:

http://www.showbiz411.com...ebbie-rowe

Michael Jackson’s Kids: Spending Time with Debbie Rowe

Michael Jackson’s kids, Prince and Paris, have been spending time with their biological mother, Debbie Rowe.

Rowe has also included Blanket, aka Prince Michael II, in the visits, according to sources. Blanket’s biological mother is unknown.

This might be the best news to come out of the long year since Michael Jackson died. The anniversary, on Friday, June 25th, is sparking dozens of stories, mostly false, about the Jackson kids and anything to do with Michael Jackson. It’s going to be a wild week, that’s for sure!

The reality is that Rowe, who was married to Jackson when she gave birth to Prince and then Paris, has forged a relationship not only with the children but with Katherine Jackson, their guardian and Michael’s mother. The visits have happened quietly, with no fanfare or publicity.

Rowe–who raises and sells horses in Southern California– retained her parental rights when she divorced Jackson. A family court judge reaffirmed that in 2006.

This week, however, all members of this saga will be out of town as fans descend on various locations to commemorate the anniversary of Michael’s death.

According to my sources, the Jackson kids are doing fine. They will, indeed, attend private school this fall.

But I am also told that it’s incorrect, as was reported Sunday from the British press, that the children have “no friends.” They have plenty of friends among their similarly aged cousins. And once they’re in school, they will undoubtedly make friends.

It wouldn’t have been easy for them in the first place. From June 2005 until last June–four years–the children were dragged by Jackson from one locale to another–Bahrain, Ireland, Japan, France, Las Vegas, northern Virginia, suburban New Jersey, and then finally a rented house in Beverly Hills.

It bothers me that the mother of Michael Jackson's two children regularly updates Roger fucking Friedman (the ugliest and nastiest SOB gossip queen around.)

The only consilation is that Friedman was fired from both Fox News and The Hollywood Reporter and now has a shitty little independent website no one reads (except for some MJ fans).

[Edited 6/21/10 9:30am]

amit1234 said:

mookie said:

http://www.showbiz411.com...ebbie-rowe

Michael Jackson’s Kids: Spending Time with Debbie Rowe

Michael Jackson’s kids, Prince and Paris, have been spending time with their biological mother, Debbie Rowe.

Rowe has also included Blanket, aka Prince Michael II, in the visits, according to sources. Blanket’s biological mother is unknown.

This might be the best news to come out of the long year since Michael Jackson died. The anniversary, on Friday, June 25th, is sparking dozens of stories, mostly false, about the Jackson kids and anything to do with Michael Jackson. It’s going to be a wild week, that’s for sure!

The reality is that Rowe, who was married to Jackson when she gave birth to Prince and then Paris, has forged a relationship not only with the children but with Katherine Jackson, their guardian and Michael’s mother. The visits have happened quietly, with no fanfare or publicity.

Rowe–who raises and sells horses in Southern California– retained her parental rights when she divorced Jackson. A family court judge reaffirmed that in 2006.

This week, however, all members of this saga will be out of town as fans descend on various locations to commemorate the anniversary of Michael’s death.

According to my sources, the Jackson kids are doing fine. They will, indeed, attend private school this fall.

But I am also told that it’s incorrect, as was reported Sunday from the British press, that the children have “no friends.” They have plenty of friends among their similarly aged cousins. And once they’re in school, they will undoubtedly make friends.

It wouldn’t have been easy for them in the first place. From June 2005 until last June–four years–the children were dragged by Jackson from one locale to another–Bahrain, Ireland, Japan, France, Las Vegas, northern Virginia, suburban New Jersey, and then finally a rented house in Beverly Hills.

It bothers me that the mother of Michael Jackson's two children regularly updates Roger fucking Friedman (the ugliest and nastiest SOB gossip queen around.)

The only consilation is that Friedman was fired from both Fox News and The Hollywood Reporter and now has a shitty little independent website no one reads (except for some MJ fans).

[Edited 6/21/10 9:30am]

not only that, but debbie's friends with marc shaeffel, who's a snake, and is now involved in a business venture with katherine. they claim it's for charity, but i highly doubt that.

as i said toward end of the last thread, i feel sorry for mj's kids b/c the people who should be protecting them from some of mj's known 'enemies' and users and leeches, don't seem to be doing that. i wonder if katherine, for example, is aware of debbie's crazy accusations and behavior toward mj in the last years of his life? does she know about the real shaeffel? does she care?

They´re gonna air that document Gone Too Soon by Ian Halpering tomorrow. Has anyone seen it? Should I be worried? Cause I am.

dag said:

They´re gonna air that document Gone Too Soon by Ian Halpering tomorrow. Has anyone seen it? Should I be worried? Cause I am.

The 80s was more daring. You had Michael, Prince, Wham!, Talking Head, the Buggles, The Police, Duran Duran, Madonna, Culture Club, Hall and Oates, The Style Council, Yaz, Loose Ends, Level 42...the list goes on and on

greatpink said:

Timmy84 said:

We finally got to see what the crows looked like...lol

Well... not only that

Ah it's nice to finally see this photo. I saw it on Diana's documentary.

I've been working on compiling a Off The Wall anniversary compilation that I'm gonna post on a couple of forums. It's hard finding remixes for It's The Falling In Love and Burn This Disco Out

Showdown Between Katherin... MJ Estate

TMZ has learned Katherine Jackson has gone into multiple businesses with a man who promotes online nude gambling -- and the stage is now set for a showdown between Katherine and the Michael Jackson estate.

Katherine met Howard Mann five months ago. We're told she instantly liked him, began inviting him to her grandson's basketball games and other events, and then they started talking about publishing a book.

The book -- "Never Can Say Goodbye: The Katherine Jackson Archives" -- is being published this week and sold online at www.jacksonsecretvault.com.

But there's more. Mann tells us he and Katherine are producing a biopic on Katherine Jackson's life. And he says they're going into business to sell 273 unreleased MJ tracks. Mann bought a storage locker owned by the Jackson family after they didn't pay the storage bill. There was a treasure trove of stuff in the locker, including the 273 tracks, along with 19,800 photos.

But we've learned the Michael Jackson estate is drawing a line in the sand. Estate lawyer Howard Weitzman tells TMZ, "Mr. Mann can listen to the tracks in his living room or play them at cocktail parties, but he has absolutely no right to the intellectual property and has no claim to the music."

mookie said:

Showdown Between Katherin... MJ Estate

TMZ has learned Katherine Jackson has gone into multiple businesses with a man who promotes online nude gambling -- and the stage is now set for a showdown between Katherine and the Michael Jackson estate.

Katherine met Howard Mann five months ago. We're told she instantly liked him, began inviting him to her grandson's basketball games and other events, and then they started talking about publishing a book.

The book -- "Never Can Say Goodbye: The Katherine Jackson Archives" -- is being published this week and sold online at www.jacksonsecretvault.com.

But there's more. Mann tells us he and Katherine are producing a biopic on Katherine Jackson's life. And he says they're going into business to sell 273 unreleased MJ tracks. Mann bought a storage locker owned by the Jackson family after they didn't pay the storage bill. There was a treasure trove of stuff in the locker, including the 273 tracks, along with 19,800 photos.

But we've learned the Michael Jackson estate is drawing a line in the sand. Estate lawyer Howard Weitzman tells TMZ, "Mr. Mann can listen to the tracks in his living room or play them at cocktail parties, but he has absolutely no right to the intellectual property and has no claim to the music."

Uhh Ohh the MJ Estate police are out. I pitty the man who stands in their way.

ignore

[Edited 6/21/10 13:59pm]

Part of The Ubisoft Michael Jackson press conference last week.

bboy87 said:

I've been working on compiling a Off The Wall anniversary compilation that I'm gonna post on a couple of forums. It's hard finding remixes for It's The Falling In Love and Burn This Disco Out

You got the 'Burnt Monkey' remix of 'Disco'? It's ok, not earth shattering or anything, but it works.

Marrk said:

bboy87 said:

I've been working on compiling a Off The Wall anniversary compilation that I'm gonna post on a couple of forums. It's hard finding remixes for It's The Falling In Love and Burn This Disco Out

You got the 'Burnt Monkey' remix of 'Disco'? It's ok, not earth shattering or anything, but it works.

I was considering that one, but I found another remix that's really good..REALLY good

http://www.tmz.com/2010/0...y-goodbye/

TMZ just posted some of the pics from Katherine's book.

bboy87 said:

Marrk said:

You got the 'Burnt Monkey' remix of 'Disco'? It's ok, not earth shattering or anything, but it works.

I was considering that one, but I found another remix that's really good..REALLY good

Details. Now.

Greeneville woman hopes Michael Jackson's good deeds remembered

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Leslie Robinette was 6 years old when she first met Michael Jackson.

An ailing little girl with barely any hair and a swollen stomach, Robinette suffered then, as now, from aplastic anemia caused by the genetic disease fanconi anemia, which she describes as being "like a little Pac-Man going after all your bone marrow."

Jackson was only 15. Robinette now believes he must have been more nervous than she was.

In 1973, she and her family went to Seattle, where she stayed in Seattle Children's Hospital - then The Children's Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center.

Robinette received a bone marrow transplant, which at the time was an experimental surgery. She was one of the youngest to ever have the procedure. She went through chemotherapy, radiation and an ever-changing plethora of medications.

But worst of all, she was kept in isolation for three months.

She spoke to her sisters through walkie-talkies, and only her mother was allowed in the room. Doctors told the family they had done all they could do, but her condition just wasn't improving.

"After you go through all of that, you just get tired and want to go home; you kind of give up the fight," Robinette said.

She listened to her favorite group, The Jackson 5, on a sterilized record player doctors allowed her to have.

On March 7, she received her first visitor.

"I was sitting in my room looking out the window, ironically listening to 'Looking Through the Window' by the Jackson 5, when I heard all the nurses going wild and carrying on," Robinette said.

She looked through the plate glass that was her only connection to the busy hospital and saw The Jackson 5 standing there.

"They asked me which one I wanted to see, and I said I wanted to see Michael - he was the cute one," Robinette said, laughing.

She described the teenage Jackson as obviously shy but incredibly kind and sincere. He gave her an autographed picture, held her hand and asked her how she was doing.

"It had been so long since I'd touched someone not wearing gloves, and I saw hair instead of just a green cap with eyeballs peeking out," said Robinette.

After that visit, Robinette started getting better.

"I would never say that he saved her life - that's crazy - but he gave her back a little of her will to live because she had lost it," said Trine Robinette, 49, Leslie's sister.

Leslie eventually did improve, and her family returned to their farm in Greeneville, Tenn., where she still lives with her parents.

When Leslie was 17, she met Jackson again.

The Jackson 5's Victory Tour came to Knoxville in August 1984 for a two-night concert that was extended a third night because of its popularity. Nearly 50,000 fans crowded into Neyland Stadium each night to see the concert.

Leslie Robinette received free tickets to the concerts, and on the third night, she went backstage to meet the whole Jackson gang. She brought Michael Jackson a hand-written birthday card.

"I asked him if he remembered me, and he said yes. We talked about my singing in chorus and how I was getting my back brace off soon," Robinette said.

Jackson then told his security detail that she was his guest, so she got to watch the third show from a raised VIP platform, seated right next to Jackson's mother, Katherine.

When Robinette left Seattle Children's Hospital three months after her first meeting with Jackson, doctors said she might live 10 years. Still struggling with her disease, she is less than 4 feet tall and weighs about 60 pounds, but she is now 42 and lives an active life.

Like Jackson, she has a strong passion for animals. She is involved in North American Riding for the Handicapped Association and currently is training to become an instructor.

"I've always felt that Michael and I were kind of kindred spirits, because we both grew up not being able to really go anywhere or do anything normal kids do," Robinette said.

Leslie was sitting in her rocking chair when Trine called to tell her about Jackson's death, and she was upset by the news.

Both sisters agree that people can say what they want about Michael Jackson, but he did a lot of good and they hope that is what he will be remembered for. And, of course, his music.

http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/27/greeneville-woman-hopes-jackson-good-deeds/

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Marrk said:

bboy87 said:

I was considering that one, but I found another remix that's really good..REALLY good

Details. Now.

You won't hear it til June 24 or June 25. I still working on the tracklisting and cover

wow that is such a sweet story

http://www.showbiz411.com...cksons-mom

Katherine Jackson: NBC Buys Only Video Interview with Michael Jackson’s Mom

NBC has bought an interview with Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine. The interview will air on Dateline on Friday night, opposite ABC’s big 20/20 piece.

The Katherine Jackson interview was produced by Michael’s former business partner, Marc Schaffel. It’s the only one with Mrs. Jackson made for the anniversary of Michael’s death.

Of course, the interview will promote her new book, “Never Can Say Goodbye” which went on sale today and which we told you about exclusively last week.

The interview covers a range of subjects including Michael’s kids, Debbie Rowe, accusations against Michael that he was a child molester, and of course, Michael’s death.

I’m told the bidding war between ABC and NBC was intense, but that ABC had already wrapped their project and there was no way to insert the material.

Meanwhile, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, some kind of preparations are being made for Saturday’s Jackson Family Foundation inaugural whatever. Mrs. Jackson says in a taped piece that she’ll sign autographs for “Never Can Say Goodbye.” The rest of it should be just as weird. Eveyone grieves in their own way, that’s for sure.More to come, undoubtedly…

NaughtyKitty said:

http://www.showbiz411.com...cksons-mom

Katherine Jackson: NBC Buys Only Video Interview with Michael Jackson’s Mom

NBC has bought an interview with Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine. The interview will air on Dateline on Friday night, opposite ABC’s big 20/20 piece.

The Katherine Jackson interview was produced by Michael’s former business partner, Marc Schaffel. It’s the only one with Mrs. Jackson made for the anniversary of Michael’s death.

Of course, the interview will promote her new book, “Never Can Say Goodbye” which went on sale today and which we told you about exclusively last week.

The interview covers a range of subjects including Michael’s kids, Debbie Rowe, accusations against Michael that he was a child molester, and of course, Michael’s death.

I’m told the bidding war between ABC and NBC was intense, but that ABC had already wrapped their project and there was no way to insert the material.

Meanwhile, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, some kind of preparations are being made for Saturday’s Jackson Family Foundation inaugural whatever. Mrs. Jackson says in a taped piece that she’ll sign autographs for “Never Can Say Goodbye.” The rest of it should be just as weird. Eveyone grieves in their own way, that’s for sure.More to come, undoubtedly…

Why does Roger Friedman always have to sound like a prick whenever he writes anything on the Jacksons? It makes his articles on Debbie Rowe seem all the more pathetic - does he have some kind of crush on her???

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Redemption Songs: Michael Jackson's Final Attempt To Save His Legacy (VIBE)

Hey guys…On the first year anniversary of MJ’s death, here’s an excerpt of a recent LONG piece I wrote for VIBE. By all means, pass it on to the other MJ sites. You can read the full-length story detailing MJ’s last musical works before his death and the struggles he went through to reach his comeback triumph by doing a cut and paste of the link below. I hope you guys dig it….Murph…

Redemption Songs: Michael Jackson's Final Attempt To Save His Legacy

One year after his death, Michael Jackson is more of a demigod than ever. Ironically, before his passing, the celebrated pop star's greatest feat was a legacy lost. VIBE unhinges MJ's final attempt at redeemed success.

Story by K. Murphy

ON JUNE, 27 1999, Michael Jackson nearly died for his music. But the 70,000 screaming fans packed inside Munich’s sold-out Olympic Stadium that night had no idea he had just cheated death. They were all too caught up in the spectacle that was Michael Jackson & Friends, a televised extravaganza with elaborate staging.

While his fame in America had waned since child abuse allegations cut short his Dangerous tour in 1993, Jackson’s ‘96-’97 HIStory trek played to a record 4.5 million spectators, grossing more than $165 million. But only a few of those 82 concerts were staged in the United States. Taping this all-star concert in Germany was Jackson’s way of showing gratitude to the loyal European subjects who still revered him as the same King of Pop who sold more than 51 million copies of 1982’s Thriller.

After a greatest hits medley, Jackson launched into an 11-minute version of his green anthem “Earth Song,” which would culminate with a tank rolling on stage and Jackson standing in its path like a protester from Tiananmen Square. “Where did we go wrong?” he wailed from atop a metal platform 30 feet above the stage. “What about us?” a mighty choir answered as the audience wept and cheered. And then, somewhere in mid-song, the wires supporting the sturdy platform snapped.

“The local crew evidently put the wrong cable wire on the metal and the bridge came crashing down into the orchestra pit with Michael on it,” recalls the show’s producer Kenny Ortega, who would go on to direct Jackson’s critically-acclaimed concert documentary This Is It. “Michael felt the fall. He knew it was happening and timed his jump as the bridge hit the ground,” Ortega says, incredulous. “And he continued to do the show!”

The scrambling stagehands and tour executives were horrified. “Weren’t you trembling in fear?” Ortega asked him minutes after the gig. Jackson responded like he was reading a script from one of those endearingly cheesy 1930s’ musicals: “Well, Kenny, I always was taught that the show must go on.”

Jackson survived that fall just like he survived all the others—through a combination of talent, luck and fancy footwork. But the worst was yet to come. The first time allegations of child molestation threatened to tarnish his brilliant career, a private settlement of a reported $20 million between the singer and his young accuser was reached. (No charges were ever filed in the case.) But that was just one of many incidents that contributed to his so-called “Wacko Jacko” persona: the battles with addiction; the extreme plastic surgeries; the day he dangled his infant son Prince Michael II over a Berlin hotel balcony. But after his sensational 2005 jury trial in which Jackson was acquitted on a second accusation of child molestation, he appeared to be a broken man.

Michael was reportedly hundreds of millions in debt, resulting from lavish spending and legal problems. Michael Joseph Jackson had hit rock bottom. Ominous reports circulated that he was juggling doctors to sustain his addiction to prescription pain medicine—after a pyrotechnical accident during a Pepsi commercial burned his scalp—and that he would end up like another tragic music icon: Elvis Presley. At one point Jackson even told his then wife Lisa Marie Presley that he was afraid he would die of an overdose like her father.

Which is why his final gutsy comeback attempt ranks as one of the most tantalizing near-misses in pop culture history. The heartbreaking “what if” questions linger. What’s amazing is that he made it as far as he did. Chalk it up to his willpower, maddening determination and cursed pride.

Entertaining was all he had ever done until he became the best. Now he was going to get it all back—at any cost. Quite simply, Michael Jackson refused to lose. “I’m going to get them,” the embattled singer told longtime friend and musical collaborator Teddy Riley in late 2008 of his plans for a spectacular return. “I’m going to shock the world, just watch.”

“He was looking for a project to not just ‘Heal the World,’” Riley says, referring to his fluffy 1991 anti-poverty hit. “He wanted to kill the world’s hate. That was his plan.”

It began with a new edition of Thriller, in 2008, 25 years after its original release. Tracks from the best-selling album of all time were remixed by Kanye West, will.i.am and Akon. The next phase of the plan included a new album and a landmark series of gigs at London’s O2 arena to be called This Is It. The groundbreaking concerts would feature never-before-seen High-Def 3-D special effects, live animals, mechanical puppets and Michael performing all the classics, from “Billie Jean” to “Jam.”

“It was such a huge undertaking,” recalls choreographer Travis Payne of the intense preparation for the 50-show spectacle. “So I asked MJ, ‘Do you ever get nervous?’ And he goes, ‘No . . . this is what we do. You have to leave it all on the stage. If I get nervous, it radiates through the group. And then we’ll have a bunch of nervous soldiers and you’ll never win a war that way.’”

The war Jackson hoped to win was an all-out battle to redeem his legacy. But he never got the chance to witness his final victory. The uniquely talented entertainer died on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles at the age of 50. Michael passed away from cardiac arrest, brought on by a lethal amount of the anesthetic propofol given to the chronic insomniac by his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray. (At press time, Dr. Murray had pled not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge.)

“I’m going to get them. I’m going to shock the world, just watch.” Within a year of his untimely death, Michael’s prediction has come true—he’s sold more than 30 million albums while the music industry is struggling to survive dwindling record sales. This Is It, a film made of tour rehearsal footage, has grossed more than $250 million worldwide, a staggering figure for a concert documentary. And in typical bigger-is-better fashion, Michael’s estate signed the largest recording deal in history with Sony Music Entertainment in March. Worth an estimated $200 million, the contract covers 10 projects over the next seven years, which could include DVDs, video games and more than 60 as-yet-unreleased Michael Jackson tracks.

“Our mission first and foremost is to preserve and enhance the legacy of Michael and to take care of his mother Katherine and his kids,” explains Jackson’s longtime entertainment lawyer John Branca, the estate supervisor. The kids are Michael’s children Prince Michael, 13, Paris Michael Katherine, 12, and Prince “Blanket” Michael II, 8, who now stand to inherit the bulk of MJ’s estimated $500 million empire.

“We had the feeling that when people saw the true side of Michael, they would fall in love with him all over again,” Branca continues. “The public would see Michael as an artist, a perfectionist; a man who insisted on getting his way, but who did it with great charm. And most of all with great talent.”

Demand for that talent has never been higher, although some reluctant fans took their time embracing him again. “It sucks that people decided after he was dead to stop with all the bullshit about him being a pedophile and all that other silly stuff,” says platinum singer-songwriter Ne-Yo, who was recruited by Jackson to write songs for his unreleased comeback album. The much anticipated set, reportedly due out by the end of the year, features production by The Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am, Lady Gaga collaborator and R&B singer Akon, New Jack Swing architect Teddy Riley, and the artist himself. “If a Michael Jackson album were to come out today, it would crush everything,” says Ne-Yo.

But few could grasp the relentless, even obsessive lengths Michael would go to establish and later resurrect his history-making career. “You are talking about someone who used to write on his mirror, ‘I will sell 30 million records,’” says Tito Jackson, guitarist for the legendary Jackson 5, by telephone from his California home. “We thought he was crazy,” says Michael’s big brother with a laugh. “This boy is putting up 30 million when most people would be happy with selling 5 million albums. He reached way higher than any normal goal.”

Composer David Michael Frank was equally impressed with the power of Jackson’s conviction. The Baltimore native planned to collaborate on an unfinished classical album with Jackson just months before his death. In late April 2009, Frank was invited to the singer’s Holmby Hills home to discuss the compositions. Michael revealed his plans for additional projects to Frank that evening: a tour and the album of pop music.

“He played me some pieces and we talked about the orchestration,” Frank says. “They were very simple, pretty and childlike.”

***

LYING ON THE floor of Las Vegas’s The Palms Studio, Michael Jackson was meticulously dissecting the sounds emanating from the monitors. It was early 2008 and he was in a fight to save his career. A year earlier, he’d asked producer will.i.am to fly out to Ireland to work on new music for a projected comeback album. Will found the prospect more than a little intriguing. “Michael’s people wanted to pay for my plane ticket to Ireland and asked me how much money I wanted,” he says. “And I’m like, ‘I don’t want any money. I’ll pay for my own plane ticket.’ I didn’t want to be one of those producers that took advantage of Michael Jackson and his money. He was emotional, so vulnerable. He had been taken advantage of by so many people in the past.”

For the rest of the story go to:

http://www.vibe.com/conte...his-legacy

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Random, but I was listening to "2 Bad" and I've always wondered...is this like a part 2 to "Bad"? I ask because some of the lyrics are pretty reminiscent to "Bad"

ViintageJunkiie said:

Random, but I was listening to "2 Bad" and I've always wondered...is this like a part 2 to "Bad"? I ask because some of the lyrics are pretty reminiscent to "Bad"

same thing I thought it could be. Some of the lyrics are pretty similar to Bad

bboy87 said:

ViintageJunkiie said:

Random, but I was listening to "2 Bad" and I've always wondered...is this like a part 2 to "Bad"? I ask because some of the lyrics are pretty reminiscent to "Bad"

same thing I thought it could be. Some of the lyrics are pretty similar to Bad

The world may never know. LOL @ the thought of him recording 2 Bad back in 87 as the remix to Bad and filming a video