Been a fan my whole life, shyt more than a fan. I got family from the same streets and corners as the Jacksons, I got aunts and uncles who knew some of the older brothers before they blew up, got a 2nd cousin who used to work for him back when the media thought he was living over in the Middle East but that nikka was really living in suburban VA outside of DC.
MJ was nothing short of a genius, he used to go into a studio and master a new technique or machine in just a few hours that would take others a year to even just learn. My cousin told me that the way he sounded on TV wasn't even his real speaking voice, she heard his real speaking voice one day and she was shocked because he sounded like a regular dude. He crafted a lot of that on his own to make himself looked at as different, for whatever reason I dont know. But I do think that MJ was waaaaay ahead of his time, not even so much music wise, but really as a spiritual human being. He was not supposed to be on Earth when he was. Dude was so in touch with stuff in the metaphysical realm that us average folks can only begin to dream about. I think part of it was that he was just born with his 3rd eye open and his success and money in life enabled him to be able learn and see different things from all over the world. And I think he stumbled upon the truth somewhere along the way and it probably did make him a little crazy. MJ was the black Howard Hughes, he was already a curious soul by nature, and his money gave him the luxury of being able to finds out the truth, and when he did he didn't want to cross that line and become one of the "string pullers", so the powers that be made the rest of his life as close to a living hell as they could.
dammit Mike...never saw a performance live in person ever... or for the master James Brown 