Michael Jackson dissed Prince in an interview after a preview screening of Purple Rain

[R-Typ3]

prince's rock songs are so ill. "i could never take the place of your man" is as good/better as any lost power-pop/punk track from the 70's.

Anytime he's in that funk/rock mood...
When U Were Mine
Bambi
Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad
Chaos & Disorder
Peach
Controversy
When Doves Cry
Darling Nikki
Gett Off
I'm Yours
The Morning Papers

 

[R-Typ3]

He really did come down like

The 80s were wild.

He was updating the same thing bluesmen been doin since the 50's back...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

. . I don't know about that . . I don't know if "bangers" is the proper measure here

You know what I mean. MJ could go anywhere in the world and rock the crowd

 

[blizzard man]

moonwalker wasn't even conceived yet you fakkit.
But Thriller was..and you know damn well Thriller was on some next shyt.

and on top of that, mike been dead

talk to dead people like theyre still currently active in music brehs

 

[Nature's Fury]

Michael Jackson was known for being happy and child-like, but he had a cold side, reveals legendary record producer L.A. Reid in his new memoir.

He was especially mean to competitor Prince and dismissive of his older brother Jermaine, Reid writes in his new memoir, “Sing To Me.”

In the early 1990s, Reid was co-producing an album for Jermaine when Michael Jackson’s manager called asking if Reid and his partner, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, would like to discuss writing songs with the star.

Reid told Jermaine only that they were slipping away to Los Angeles for a quick project. They didn’t mention what it was.

A helicopter picked up the two at Burbank Airport and flew them to Neverland Ranch, where they were met by an assistant with a nondisclosure agreement — “Nobody got to see Michael without signing one” — and were taken to Jackson’s library.

They discussed music, and Jackson took them on a tour of Neverland. Finally, he brought them to a screening room and showed them footage of a 1983 James Brown concert where Jackson, called on stage as a guest, “danced a few steps,” then told Brown that Prince, Jackson’s longtime rival, was in the crowd as well. Brown called him up too, but to Jackson’s delight, his appearance didn’t go nearly as well.

“Prince [couldn’t] make his guitar work, frantically stripping off his shirt and trying tricks with the microphone stand and making all these poses. After Michael’s dazzling star turn, Prince fell as flat as he could, and Michael enjoyed laughing at the video.”

But Michael wasn’t done humiliating him.

“After that, he put on a scene from Prince’s movie ‘Under The Cherry Moon,’ the artsy black-and-white bomb he made after ‘Purple Rain,’ and he laughed some more at Prince.”

Following a lunch where “Michael’s pasta was all cut in the shapes of Disney characters,” it was arranged that the duo would fly to LA to write songs with Jackson for three weeks. When Jermaine found out, he went ballistic, demanding to be released from Reid and Edmonds’ label, LaFace Records.

When Reid told Michael what happened, the superstar replied, “He’ll get over it.”

“ ‘That’s not really the problem,’ I said. ‘The problem was that he wants off the label now.’

“ ‘Did he sign a contract?’ asked Michael.

“ ‘Yes,’ I said.

“ ‘Then he’ll have to live with it because those are the rules,’ Michael said and walked out.

“That Michael Jackson was one shrewd man,” Reid writes. “He was not wrong, but you didn’t expect that from Peter Pan. You expect a little compassion or something. No. Cold as ice.”

Reid and Edmonds smoothed things over with Jermaine in Atlanta, but when they went back to work on his record, Jermaine complicated matters further by telling them, “I want to make a song about my brother. I want to talk about how he’s treated me through the years, like how every time I find producers like you guys, he takes my producers. He doesn’t care about his family or anybody but himseAs Jermaine’s producers, they had to serve their artist. Much as they didn’t want to produce a song slamming Michael, they had no choice. Radio stations nationwide picked up Jermaine’s “Word to the Badd!” and Reid was in his apartment in LA when he received a call from an angry Michael Jackson.

“ ‘You have to stop this,’ he said. ‘You’re the head of the label. You have to kill this. This isn’t good.’ ”

The brothers convened at their mother’s house to discuss the issue, after which Jermaine called Reid to say that the record would stay on the air, followed by Michael calling to again tell Reid to put a stop to it.

Two days later, Reid writes, “The record disappeared off the air, as if it had never been there in the first place. I don’t know what Michael did. I don’t know if Michael did anything, but it went away in a flash.

Michael Jackson loved to watch videos of Prince screwing up | New York Post

 

[onlylno]

Michael Jackson was known for being happy and child-like, but he had a cold side, reveals legendary record producer L.A. Reid in his new memoir.

He was especially mean to competitor Prince and dismissive of his older brother Jermaine, Reid writes in his new memoir, “Sing To Me.”

In the early 1990s, Reid was co-producing an album for Jermaine when Michael Jackson’s manager called asking if Reid and his partner, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, would like to discuss writing songs with the star.

Reid told Jermaine only that they were slipping away to Los Angeles for a quick project. They didn’t mention what it was.

A helicopter picked up the two at Burbank Airport and flew them to Neverland Ranch, where they were met by an assistant with a nondisclosure agreement — “Nobody got to see Michael without signing one” — and were taken to Jackson’s library.

They discussed music, and Jackson took them on a tour of Neverland. Finally, he brought them to a screening room and showed them footage of a 1983 James Brown concert where Jackson, called on stage as a guest, “danced a few steps,” then told Brown that Prince, Jackson’s longtime rival, was in the crowd as well. Brown called him up too, but to Jackson’s delight, his appearance didn’t go nearly as well.

“Prince [couldn’t] make his guitar work, frantically stripping off his shirt and trying tricks with the microphone stand and making all these poses. After Michael’s dazzling star turn, Prince fell as flat as he could, and Michael enjoyed laughing at the video.”

But Michael wasn’t done humiliating him.

“After that, he put on a scene from Prince’s movie ‘Under The Cherry Moon,’ the artsy black-and-white bomb he made after ‘Purple Rain,’ and he laughed some more at Prince.”

Following a lunch where “Michael’s pasta was all cut in the shapes of Disney characters,” it was arranged that the duo would fly to LA to write songs with Jackson for three weeks. When Jermaine found out, he went ballistic, demanding to be released from Reid and Edmonds’ label, LaFace Records.

When Reid told Michael what happened, the superstar replied, “He’ll get over it.”

“ ‘That’s not really the problem,’ I said. ‘The problem was that he wants off the label now.’

“ ‘Did he sign a contract?’ asked Michael.

“ ‘Yes,’ I said.

“ ‘Then he’ll have to live with it because those are the rules,’ Michael said and walked out.

“That Michael Jackson was one shrewd man,” Reid writes. “He was not wrong, but you didn’t expect that from Peter Pan. You expect a little compassion or something. No. Cold as ice.”

Reid and Edmonds smoothed things over with Jermaine in Atlanta, but when they went back to work on his record, Jermaine complicated matters further by telling them, “I want to make a song about my brother. I want to talk about how he’s treated me through the years, like how every time I find producers like you guys, he takes my producers. He doesn’t care about his family or anybody but himseAs Jermaine’s producers, they had to serve their artist. Much as they didn’t want to produce a song slamming Michael, they had no choice. Radio stations nationwide picked up Jermaine’s “Word to the Badd!” and Reid was in his apartment in LA when he received a call from an angry Michael Jackson.

“ ‘You have to stop this,’ he said. ‘You’re the head of the label. You have to kill this. This isn’t good.’ ”

The brothers convened at their mother’s house to discuss the issue, after which Jermaine called Reid to say that the record would stay on the air, followed by Michael calling to again tell Reid to put a stop to it.

Two days later, Reid writes, “The record disappeared off the air, as if it had never been there in the first place. I don’t know what Michael did. I don’t know if Michael did anything, but it went away in a flash.

Michael Jackson loved to watch videos of Prince screwing up | New York Post

This screams white michael.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Michael Jackson was known for being happy and child-like, but he had a cold side, reveals legendary record producer L.A. Reid in his new memoir.

He was especially mean to competitor Prince and dismissive of his older brother Jermaine, Reid writes in his new memoir, “Sing To Me.”

In the early 1990s, Reid was co-producing an album for Jermaine when Michael Jackson’s manager called asking if Reid and his partner, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, would like to discuss writing songs with the star.

Reid told Jermaine only that they were slipping away to Los Angeles for a quick project. They didn’t mention what it was.

A helicopter picked up the two at Burbank Airport and flew them to Neverland Ranch, where they were met by an assistant with a nondisclosure agreement — “Nobody got to see Michael without signing one” — and were taken to Jackson’s library.

They discussed music, and Jackson took them on a tour of Neverland. Finally, he brought them to a screening room and showed them footage of a 1983 James Brown concert where Jackson, called on stage as a guest, “danced a few steps,” then told Brown that Prince, Jackson’s longtime rival, was in the crowd as well. Brown called him up too, but to Jackson’s delight, his appearance didn’t go nearly as well.

“Prince [couldn’t] make his guitar work, frantically stripping off his shirt and trying tricks with the microphone stand and making all these poses. After Michael’s dazzling star turn, Prince fell as flat as he could, and Michael enjoyed laughing at the video.”

But Michael wasn’t done humiliating him.

“After that, he put on a scene from Prince’s movie ‘Under The Cherry Moon,’ the artsy black-and-white bomb he made after ‘Purple Rain,’ and he laughed some more at Prince.”

Following a lunch where “Michael’s pasta was all cut in the shapes of Disney characters,” it was arranged that the duo would fly to LA to write songs with Jackson for three weeks. When Jermaine found out, he went ballistic, demanding to be released from Reid and Edmonds’ label, LaFace Records.

When Reid told Michael what happened, the superstar replied, “He’ll get over it.”

“ ‘That’s not really the problem,’ I said. ‘The problem was that he wants off the label now.’

“ ‘Did he sign a contract?’ asked Michael.

“ ‘Yes,’ I said.

“ ‘Then he’ll have to live with it because those are the rules,’ Michael said and walked out.

“That Michael Jackson was one shrewd man,” Reid writes. “He was not wrong, but you didn’t expect that from Peter Pan. You expect a little compassion or something. No. Cold as ice.”

Reid and Edmonds smoothed things over with Jermaine in Atlanta, but when they went back to work on his record, Jermaine complicated matters further by telling them, “I want to make a song about my brother. I want to talk about how he’s treated me through the years, like how every time I find producers like you guys, he takes my producers. He doesn’t care about his family or anybody but himseAs Jermaine’s producers, they had to serve their artist. Much as they didn’t want to produce a song slamming Michael, they had no choice. Radio stations nationwide picked up Jermaine’s “Word to the Badd!” and Reid was in his apartment in LA when he received a call from an angry Michael Jackson.

“ ‘You have to stop this,’ he said. ‘You’re the head of the label. You have to kill this. This isn’t good.’ ”

The brothers convened at their mother’s house to discuss the issue, after which Jermaine called Reid to say that the record would stay on the air, followed by Michael calling to again tell Reid to put a stop to it.

Two days later, Reid writes, “The record disappeared off the air, as if it had never been there in the first place. I don’t know what Michael did. I don’t know if Michael did anything, but it went away in a flash.

Michael Jackson loved to watch videos of Prince screwing up | New York Post

That's crazy.

 

[num123]

This screams white michael.

 

[Konnan]

mike tore that shyt down

He rode up there on a big white dudes back

The 80s was so fukking weird

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Michael Jackson was known for being happy and child-like, but he had a cold side, reveals legendary record producer L.A. Reid in his new memoir.

He was especially mean to competitor Prince and dismissive of his older brother Jermaine, Reid writes in his new memoir, “Sing To Me.”

In the early 1990s, Reid was co-producing an album for Jermaine when Michael Jackson’s manager called asking if Reid and his partner, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, would like to discuss writing songs with the star.

Reid told Jermaine only that they were slipping away to Los Angeles for a quick project. They didn’t mention what it was.

A helicopter picked up the two at Burbank Airport and flew them to Neverland Ranch, where they were met by an assistant with a nondisclosure agreement — “Nobody got to see Michael without signing one” — and were taken to Jackson’s library.

They discussed music, and Jackson took them on a tour of Neverland. Finally, he brought them to a screening room and showed them footage of a 1983 James Brown concert where Jackson, called on stage as a guest, “danced a few steps,” then told Brown that Prince, Jackson’s longtime rival, was in the crowd as well. Brown called him up too, but to Jackson’s delight, his appearance didn’t go nearly as well.

“Prince [couldn’t] make his guitar work, frantically stripping off his shirt and trying tricks with the microphone stand and making all these poses. After Michael’s dazzling star turn, Prince fell as flat as he could, and Michael enjoyed laughing at the video.”

But Michael wasn’t done humiliating him.

“After that, he put on a scene from Prince’s movie ‘Under The Cherry Moon,’ the artsy black-and-white bomb he made after ‘Purple Rain,’ and he laughed some more at Prince.”

Following a lunch where “Michael’s pasta was all cut in the shapes of Disney characters,” it was arranged that the duo would fly to LA to write songs with Jackson for three weeks. When Jermaine found out, he went ballistic, demanding to be released from Reid and Edmonds’ label, LaFace Records.

When Reid told Michael what happened, the superstar replied, “He’ll get over it.”

“ ‘That’s not really the problem,’ I said. ‘The problem was that he wants off the label now.’

“ ‘Did he sign a contract?’ asked Michael.

“ ‘Yes,’ I said.

“ ‘Then he’ll have to live with it because those are the rules,’ Michael said and walked out.

“That Michael Jackson was one shrewd man,” Reid writes. “He was not wrong, but you didn’t expect that from Peter Pan. You expect a little compassion or something. No. Cold as ice.”

Reid and Edmonds smoothed things over with Jermaine in Atlanta, but when they went back to work on his record, Jermaine complicated matters further by telling them, “I want to make a song about my brother. I want to talk about how he’s treated me through the years, like how every time I find producers like you guys, he takes my producers. He doesn’t care about his family or anybody but himseAs Jermaine’s producers, they had to serve their artist. Much as they didn’t want to produce a song slamming Michael, they had no choice. Radio stations nationwide picked up Jermaine’s “Word to the Badd!” and Reid was in his apartment in LA when he received a call from an angry Michael Jackson.

“ ‘You have to stop this,’ he said. ‘You’re the head of the label. You have to kill this. This isn’t good.’ ”

The brothers convened at their mother’s house to discuss the issue, after which Jermaine called Reid to say that the record would stay on the air, followed by Michael calling to again tell Reid to put a stop to it.

Two days later, Reid writes, “The record disappeared off the air, as if it had never been there in the first place. I don’t know what Michael did. I don’t know if Michael did anything, but it went away in a flash.

Michael Jackson loved to watch videos of Prince screwing up | New York Post

here is the raw truth about jermaine jackson:
Jermaine Jackson is on paper, the WORST selling solo artist of all time with 10 or more albums released on a major (look it up). 12 solo albums with no hit records or albums, he wasted so much time and money for MOTOWN that it can be argued he single-handedly killed the momentum of their entire record label

he thought when he broke up from the J5 and did his solo thing that he was going to be the biggest singer in the world. he finally got a chance to stand out and be a star and flopped. who remembers and still plays this album?

two albums later he dropped one of the worst selling albums of all time, I believe it sold less than 100 copies when it released:

the following year however, this dropped:

jermaine's whole thing has been about jealousy...this nikka had a damn near 10 year head start to his solo career over michael jackson, and he STILL crushed his shyt with ONE album.

The family drama ran deep with the jacksons but michael believed in keeping everything private and not telling the world everything that went on with them...if you all really wanna know the truth, it's all in his bodyguards' book - he didn't fukk with NOBODY in that family except his mother. not even janet.

 

[Mac Casper]

I can't even figure out who's the aggressor out of this Prince/MJ thing anymore

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Upping a classic thread

RIP to a legend

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Mike, Phife and Prince gone, 2016 is my childhood brehs

 

[JCalli]

This thread is classic.

I'm gone read through this whole shyt

 

[Ziggiy]

here is the raw truth about jermaine jackson:
Jermaine Jackson is on paper, the WORST selling solo artist of all time with 10 or more albums released on a major (look it up). 12 solo albums with no hit records or albums, he wasted so much time and money for MOTOWN that it can be argued he single-handedly killed the momentum of their entire record label

he thought when he broke up from the J5 and did his solo thing that he was going to be the biggest singer in the world. he finally got a chance to stand out and be a star and flopped. who remembers and still plays this album?

two albums later he dropped one of the worst selling albums of all time, I believe it sold less than 100 copies when it released:

the following year however, this dropped:

jermaine's whole thing has been about jealousy...this nikka had a damn near 10 year head start to his solo career over michael jackson, and he STILL crushed his shyt with ONE album.

The family drama ran deep with the jacksons but michael believed in keeping everything private and not telling the world everything that went on with them...if you all really wanna know the truth, it's all in his bodyguards' book - he didn't fukk with NOBODY in that family except his mother. not even janet.

Jermaine only had ONE banging album and that was Lets Get Serious.

MJ fukked with Janet but was very competitive with her, he was constantly afraid that she was going to steal his dance moves