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  • LL Cool J explains why unreleased songs with Michael Jackson won’t be released

    LL Cool J explains why unreleased songs with Michael Jackson won’t be released

    Cool J admits the music fell short on quality bar

    LL Cool J has spoken about his unreleased music with Michael Jackson and even offered reasons as to why the songs will remain on the shelf. Speaking to KISS FM on Saturday (October 19), the host wanted to know more about the end game of the rapper’s unheard tracks with the King of Pop.

    “They weren’t good enough,” Cool J explained about his unreleased material with MJ. “We definitely made songs together. We made music together. One of them leaked a while ago, it was called ‘Serious Effect.’ That was one. But there was some other stuff and it just didn’t get there. Sometimes the art don’t get there. It just doesn’t get there … Being able to hang out with Mike and work with Mike and be in the studio with him, it was dope.”

  • Snoop Dogg says he has unheard song with Michael Jackson

    Snoop Dogg says he has unheard song with Michael Jackson

    Snoop reveals he was close to MJ

    Snoop Dogg explains how he related with the late Michael Jackson. During a discussion on Andy Cohen’s Radio Andy on Sirius XM, Snoop revealed that he was close to MJ and even has an unreleased record with the King of Pop.

    “Me and Michael was family. His family, my family love each other,” he explained. “We have a record that never came out together,” he added, skimming over the details.

    He then recalled an encounter with the Thriller hit-maker during an event in Las Vegas where he burst into MJ’s dressing room blowing marijuana smoke and he wasn’t having it.

    “Only issue me and Mike had was, we was at … Ed Hardy — Christian Audigier, he had an event in [Las] Vegas. He had Michael Jackson perform, Snoop Dogg perform,” he remembered.

    “But where he messed up, he put Michael Jackson dressing room right next to Snoop Dogg’s. So Snoop Dogg was doing this,” he continued, taking a hit of his blunt.

    “They like, ‘You know Michael Jackson dressing room next door.’ Like, ‘No it ain’t.’ They like, ‘Yeah it is.’ I’m like, ‘Hold on.’” Snoop then took another drag from his blunt and recalled how he opened the door, exhuming a cloud of smoke. “[Michael was] right there looking at me. He said, ‘Snoop, don’t do that.’”

  • Michael Jackson is now the first solo artist to have two 20th century songs surpass 1 billion views each on YouTube

    Michael Jackson is now the first solo artist to have two 20th century songs surpass 1 billion views each on YouTube

    Michael Jackson breaks a new record

    Michael Jackson continues to posthumously add more accolades to his résumé. Over the weekend, the multi-million selling singer became the first solo artist ever to have two songs released in the 20th century earn over 1B views each on YouTube.

    MJ reached the new status after his hit record “They Don’t Care About Us” amassed 1B views on Sunday (April 23). His other song to reach this milestone is “Billie Jean,” which has over 1.3B views at the time this article was published.

  • Just Blaze confirms Michael Jackson’s vocals were on Jay-Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls”

    Just Blaze confirms Michael Jackson’s vocals were on Jay-Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls”

    Hove had MJ’s vocals on “Girls, Girls, Girls”

    It has long been rumored that Jay-Z’s 2001 hit “Girls, Girls, Girls” contained Michael Jackson’s vocals, well, Just Blaze confirms it. During a recent interview at Noah Callahan-Bever’s Idea Generation series, Blaze said he discovered MJ’s vocals on the record while on quarantine, 20 years after the track was released.

    “So Michael Jackson is on the ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ remix – the A version,” Just Blaze revealed. “And I never knew that. I don’t know if I didn’t go to the studio that day. I thought it was an urban legend or something that Jay said like in jest one day or just was some kind of a myth.”

    He continued, “And I realize as I’m listening to it, it’s him singing on ‘Girls, Girls, Girls.’ And I’m like, it’s true! Like I never…the last 20 years… I just found it during quarantine. So all these years, I’ve never known it was actually a real thing. And turns out the files had been sitting downstairs this entire time.”

  • DJ Quick recounts his first time meeting Michael Jackson

    DJ Quick recounts his first time meeting Michael Jackson

    Quick’s first encounter with Michael Jackson was weird

    DJ Quick’s first encounter with Michael Jackson wasn’t a usual one. During a recent interview with VladTV, Quick recalled one time he was working on his 1991 song, “Tonite,” at MJ’s studio when the pop singer’s team informed them that the Thriller hit-maker was arriving in the building.

    Quick recounted that they were then asked to turn and face the wall so that they won’t see Jackson. “We taking a break from the studio, and these guys come in, and they was like, ‘We about to bring somebody through here, can you turn and face the wall?’” Quik explained, before remembering asking them if they were “serious.”

    “It’s like damn, Mike didn’t want anyone to look at him, the fuck is this?” Quik continued.

    Quick later explained that MJ was “more cool” and “less timid” in their next meeting.


  • Michael Jackson recruited rivaling Crips & Bloods on “Beat It” music video

    Michael Jackson recruited rivaling Crips & Bloods on “Beat It” music video

    MJ wanted to promote peace on “Beat It” video

    Michael Jackson famously played the peacemaker on the “Beat It” music video when he intervened in a knife fight with a dance. According to the video director Bob Girald, Michael came up with the idea to cast the rivaling gangs Crips & Bloods on the video.

    In a recent interview with Boards published on Michael’s website, Girald revealed that he proposed the idea of two men engaging in a switchblade knife fight with their hands tied together, a scene inspired by a true story he heard in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. Michael sat well with the idea and convinced the LAPD to allow Crips & Bloods to the video shoot as a way of promoting peace.

    “Michael liked my idea and decided he was going to include the Crips and Bloods, which I thought was insane. If you see the video, you’ll see guys that look like the real deal because they are the real deal,” Girald said of the gang members, who can be seen surrounding and watching MJ’s Choreography dancers because they couldn’t dance themselves.

    Girald added: “It was Michael. He went out and he got ’em through, I guess, the LAPD’s gang squad and he convinced them that, with enough police presence, this would be a smart and charitable thing to do; get them there to like each other and hang with each other for two days doing the video. I didn’t like the idea because it was hard enough to direct actors and dancers, let alone hoods.”




  • Akon planned on opening music schools in Africa with Michael Jackson

    Akon planned on opening music schools in Africa with Michael Jackson

    Akon & Michael Jackson were close friends

    Singer Akon recently sat for a talk with HipHopDx to discuss his relationship with the late Michael Jackson. During the interview, the “Locked Up” singer revealed they planned on starting music schools in Africa before the iconic singer passed away in 2009.

    “There are a few things that we did discuss. One of them was we were gonna build music schools all throughout Africa,” Akon said. “We wanted to create a music school that allowed kids to learn how to play instruments, vocal coaching, the music business, entertainment, so they don’t just walk into it not knowing the education of how the business works and things like that.”

    He added: “Even in Akon City in the educational district the first one will be built in there and I’m naming it after the Michael Jackson Foundation. So I’m gonna be naming it MJ University.”

  • Akon says Michael Jackson took pills because of excitement for his performance

    Akon says Michael Jackson took pills because of excitement for his performance

    Akon alleges Michael Jackson couldn’t sleep while preparing for his show

    Michael Jackson passed away in 2009 from a reported overdose of anesthetic Propofol and benzodiazepines pills.

    Singer Akon was close to MJ towards the last moments of his career and watched the King of Pop as he prepared for his last show in London.

    Speaking to The Sun in a recent interview, the “Mr. Lonely” singer claimed the “Billie Jean” hit maker took pills because he was too excited for the show that he couldn’t sleep.

    “He was so happy and excited that he was about to go to London and lock these 50 dates in and remind the world who he was and what his value was to pop music,” Akon recalled MJ’s urge to give his fans a thrilling performance. “He didn’t even sleep. That is why he was taking sleeping pills because he was too damn excited.

    ”He added, “He would be up for weeks at a time thinking about how he wanted everybody to have the most amazing experience, he wanted to create something that was going to be talked about for centuries.”

    “You are going to need help to get sleep,” he continued. “Because your mind is constantly moving and your energy and your flow [are] electric to the point where you cannot turn it off.”

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