Don King dropped the N-word while introducing Donald Trump
Don King, boxing promoter and Trump supporter, used the word “n*gger” Wednesday at a Trump campaign event at a church in Ohio, in which he attempted to urge black voters to back Trump. Racial gaffe aside, just appearing alongside King, who has a very dark past, came with major pitfalls for Trump.
G: What was the last thing that you got involved in with [your father Joe], was it the Victory Tour?
Michael Jackson: Well, yeah, that’s one of the last things he
dabbled in, he screwed it up. I said, “Don’t use Don King.” And all this
and that. (imitating Joe’s voice) ”Oh, but Don, well, you know, he’s a good
businessman.” I said, “No, he’s not, he’s a crook.”
(via micdotcom)
Sony’s promo video for the Dangerous album in 1991: aka how to launch the fuck out of a Michael Jackson album
How to put someone in their place: the Michael Jackson story.
French interview with Prince, 15th October, 2009
At your concert at the Grand Palais, you performed a song by The Jacksons, Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground). Was it a tribute?
My singer Elisa has the same timbre as Michael when he was young. And a good song is a good song.
How did you feel about the death of Michael Jackson?
(Prince, obviously reluctant, does not want to dwell on the subject.) It is always sad to lose someone you loved.
Prince defending MJ in response to the question, “Hypothetically, who would win in a fist fight between you and Michael Jackson?”
MJ stops a scene after accidentally stepping on a dancer’s toes.
“He admired Prince, by the way. Loved his music. Purple Rain, he used to talk about that song a lot.”
- Kenny Ortega, Michael Jackson’s choreographer for This Is It.
TBT: the time Michael Jackson convinced Queen to release ‘Another One Bites The Dust’
Though they are hardly alike — Freddie celebrated a recent birthday by hanging naked from a chandelier — the two have been friendly since Michael listened to the material Queen had recorded for The Game and insisted that the single had to be “Another One Bites the Dust.”
MJ: “Now, he listens to me, right Freddie?”
Freddie: “Righto, little brother.”
“Michael came to several shows, I think at The Forum, in LA. And he loved Freddie and he kept saying, ‘You guys you gotta put that song out’. I said, ‘No, you’re kidding, that’s never a single’. How wrong can you be?”
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Koppel: That’s their privilege, isn’t it?
Rick James: Yeah, but why call yourself Music Television then? I mean, why not then call yourself ‘We Play Sometimes Black Music Television.’ See, number one, you have a lot of black people out there and white people – they all buy records, they mix it up. You’ve got urban contemporary music happening, which is a form – the basis of it is black music form. That’s where it comes from. The beat, the tribal beat, as they say, or whatever, you know, all that crap… This show has a very strong impact on the market. What about all the white kids out there who have a Rick James and a Michael Jackson or – excluding Michael, who’s on the show. They didn’t put him on the show until he went number one. And then I also heard that Columbia almost threatened to take off every video on MTV until Michael was put on that show. When you have a record company threatening a cable show, telling them that if you don’t play this act, we’re going to pull all our videos – that means something. It means something for us to get our music to people, and it means something for us to get our visual concepts to people.
"— In 1983 Rick James challenged MTV’s refusal to play black musicians on their channel. At time Michael Jackson’s Thriller was number 1 in the country and yet he still had to have his record company threaten to pull their entire catalog from rotation just to get them to play Billie Jean.
