Hey, Quincy Jones: Who Stole Your Soul, Brother?

Dear Quincy Jones,

I know you're a musical genius and all; yes, you are in fact "The Dude". But today sir, in my mind's eye, you're an asshole for allowing T-Pain to remake Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)". What, did Michael Jackson owe you money? And is this how you get even?

No seriously, have you no soul, Quincy?

This is pure bullshit; and no, having Robin Thicke on the track makes it no better, Quincy. First off, nobody, and I mean nobody, should ever redo anything Michael Jackson has ever done. But, if you're gonna take a chance on pissing off more than a few people, did you have to have the auto-tune coon on the project?

I mean here I thought MC Hammer making a comeback by starting some bullshit beef with Jay-Z was bad. But now I get wind of this sacrilegious musical crime? But then I realized it was you Quincy who made this shit possible. Yep, and it was you who conveniently skipped out on MJ's memorial with a lame excuse.

Yes Quincy, did you think I forgot the shit you were talking about MJ right after his death? Yeah, I haven't forgotten, and I always thought that was a bitchass move, Quincy. Telling the media that Michael, "obviously didn't want to be black," while they all shit on him when his body wasn't even cold spoke volumes about you.

Hope the money is worth it, Quincy; and I also hope that should you decide to have somebody cover 'Billie Jean' in the near or distant future, that you do us a favor and at least see if they can fuckin hold a note, bitch.

What's With The Rabid Chris Brown Fans?

Attention Chris Brown stans: I'm waiting for you, you hear me? I see you on all the blogs, especially after Mr. Brown's performance at the BET Awards, going off on anyone that does not and did not fall in awe at the feet of your messiah. The attacks are always the same fare:

"Get a life!"

"He still makes more money than you!"

"He still has adoring fans."

"Your blog sucks!"

Oh, I am so ready for your rabid, yet ineffective vitriol. Bring. IT. ON. I'm letting you know right now that while Mr. Brown might have more in his bank account than I do, and has a cult of zombies who would eat their own mothers' brains if he so much as hinted at it, and all that jazz, at least I don't have a criminal record thanks to giving a beat down to a defenseless person who was smaller and frailer than me. No misdemeanors and no felonies on my end. No, sir...

On a serious note, I'm hoping to prevent a lot of the drama that unfolds in the comments sections
whenever anyone has the "nerve" to mention anything about Chris, even if it's not unkind. It can never be kind enough, if you ask his fans. Even women who have been previously abused themselves, came to his defense, and in effect showing that they are still mentally abused, even if they've escaped the physical abuse.

I'm not here to question whether or not Chris was sincere or not. I almost think it's inappropriate to do so. I don't care enough to rip someone's brain apart in that way. I hope he was sincere and I hope that his "breakdown" is a sign of better things to come for him. However, it doesn't mean that I or anyone else should automatically give him a pass or forgive him for his actions. If anything, I think he was a day late and a dollar short. Had we seen this type of emotion on his part after his attack and abuse came to light, he might have stood a chance. Instead he retreated into the enabling of people whose collective self-esteem is suspect to me.

It's almost hard to do so, because I feel like I am joining a group of people that have always been on his side, even when it was clear that he hit a woman. I just don't want to join that chorus because it appears to me that their forgiveness was never earned, it was always there, waiting and eager. They often speak about forgiving Chris, and go on to remind us that we all sin--as if we didn't know this already--so therefore we should forgive easily and quickly.

BREAKING NEWS: Michael Jackson's doctor now a suspect in the murder of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

Lets see, Michael Jackson has been dead for about 6mths now, he still hasn't been buried, and the coroners office just a couple of days ago said that they've concluded their investigation into the cause of death. Great, finally we can find out what exactly killed the man. Unfortunately for the world, the coroners office has yet to release it's findings and they have yet to do so under the instructions of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Well, according to them, they're still actively investigating Jackson's death as a homicide so therefore the results of the autopsy should be kept under wraps for now. You know what that tells me? That tells me that they're putting together an airtight case on Dr. Conrad Murray. Yep, I get the impression that they're not only getting all of their ducks lined up in a row, they're doing all they can to make sure this guy goes down and tie him to other crimes. If this Negro has warrants for unpaid jaywalking tickets he's going to do prison time.

I'm just sayin', we now know that this married doctor is behind on child support, has money problems, and is also an alleged Captain Save-A-Hoe. Yeah, "allegedly", Dr. Death has an arrangement with an ex-stripper he was courting on the side, with whom he has a love child; hey, you say "love child", I say "Champagne Room" baby.

Dr. Conrad Murray - under investigation for giving Jackson the anesthetic propofol - met Nicole Alvarez, 27, while she danced at the Vegas club Crazy Horse in December 2005, said ex-pal Ben Harris Jr.

Harris said he saw a $3,500 check Murray gave her after their first encounter during a weekend swing through Sin City.

"She came home the next morning excited," said Harris. "She woke me up - 'Boobie! Oh my goodness. I hit the jackpot.'"

He said Murray helped Alvarez move from her mom's rental to a posh Santa Monica pad and gave her a BMW.

"I rode in Murray's car and even helped Nicole spend his money," said Harris, who has written a manuscript about their escapades titled "A Lucrative Vengeance."

Alvarez declined to comment. A neighbor said she still lives in the apartment with her baby, Che Murray, born March 2.

A birth certificate first obtained by RadarOnline identifies Murray as the father. His lawyer declined comment. [source]

See? Why else would we know this type of information, but yet to know just exactly what killed Michael Jackson? I'm kinda tired of hearing about this guy's personal life to be honest with you and I wish they would just go ahead and arrest him already. But I've watched Law & Order and The First 48 on television a time or two and I understand that they need something solid on him.

I mean think about it: if Dr. Broke-Pimp was in such financial trouble as he was/is, having to support a "retired" stripper (which from what I hear is kinda expensive), why would he kill Michael Jackson even accidentally? Yep, where's the motive? Seems like as f*cked up as this guy was while MJ was alive he damn sure would have done all he could to keep his cash cow breathing. And you see, like me, the cops are smart so they're going to pin pretty much any unsolved murder on this guy in order for justice to prevail.

I mean c'mon, this is the King of Pop who's dead that we're talking about here. They cannot afford to let this guy slide as they did the leprechaun who killed Biggie and Tupac so they're going hard on this one. Yep, you know how the police love "sprinkling crack" on Black suspects. Don't be surprised if they implicate this guy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy as well. Yep, from here on out Dr. Conrad Murray will be implicated in all gang-related murders, drive-by shootings, and any car jacking which resulted in death in Los Angeles County. Hell, he just might be the reason the push for health care reform fails. You know how it is: always blame the Black guy.

Michael Jackson was murdered? Maybe he would still be alive today if he smoked weed

I don't even know if Michael Jackson has been buried yet; has he? That's how much I've paid attention since the day of his memorial. Seriously, for all I know his casket may still be sitting in the Staple Center as much as I've watched the news since that day. However, I caught the headline online that said that he was murdered. Sounded like one of those Enquirer headlines you see at the grocery store checkout isle. You know the one you'd laugh at last year had you read that? But then it hits you that he is in fact dead.

Supposedly Latoya Jackson and her dad Joe are of the opinion that there's some f*ckery afoot concerning his death. From the looks of it they're suspicious of his private physician (as well as others) who he himself resided at the Jackson home. I don't know how true this may be as an official cause of death has yet to be released. Amid this allegation the stories of drug use has ran rampant. Which is pretty sad because it paints the picture of Michael Jackson as an understudy for Pookie from the movie New Jack City, and damn near worse than my man Gator from Jungle Fever.

Look, I don't know what killed the man, and yes I can say the media had a hand in his death as I have before. However, I've been thinking about this for some time now, and I have to say that: Michael Jackson would probably still be alive today had he started smoking weed. Yes, Michael Jackson would be alive today if marijuana were legal in this country. Supposedly he became addicted to pain medication, and was an insomniac who cried for nothing but sleep. If Michael Jackson smoked a blunt, his ass would not have been up all night in pain. Had Mike smoked weed -- I'm talking that Grade-A shit you see on the cover of High Times magazine -- he would be alive.

I mean think about it: Willie Nelson smokes hella weed and he's still kicking up dust. You think Willie Nelson has trouble sleeping at night? Willie Nelson is 120yrs old and still going strong and everybody knows why. Have you looked at him recently? He doesn't quite look like a stressed out kinda guy now does he? See? That could have been Michael Jackson. With the money Mike had, he would have never left the country pissed off and stressed after his trial amid all the accusations of child molestation. Nope, Mike would have been in California probably blowin' that Piff with Snoop Dogg and George Clinton. Yes, he would have probably bought Humboldt County California, sold Neverland Ranch, and reopened a new spot called Never Comedown Ranch. When you consider that California cannot even balance their budget and Los Angeles had to beg for donations to pay for his memorial, weed being legal sorta makes sense.

People say marijuana is a gateway drug, but that's bullshit. I have yet to meet people hooked on pain pills (and I know a few) who got there after smoking a joint. Jokes aside, prescription drug abuse in this country is far worse than perceived in this country all while authorities criminalized marijuana. Maybe what LaToya Jackson said is true. Maybe what she said is just emotional speculation in the wake of the death of her brother. However, there were in fact people around Mike that were enabling him in more ways than one.

In a recent press release by ABC news right here, one can see never before released pictures of Mike from 2002 which shows just how his body was ravaged by intravenous drug use. Now that he's dead it's sad that these pics are released. Personally I wish they had pics of him taking a toke on a bong or smoking a joint. If they did, I think it would have been easier to stomach than what the current pictures show. Michael Jackson was in pain, and just like a cancer patient I wish he was able to use weed legally. I say legally because it would be kinda hard for him to don a surgical mask as he did and ride up to one of the spots in the hood trynna cop a sack. Yes, the cops would have loved to have someone like him doing the perp walk.

Dammit Michael Jackson! Why did you have to die? Because of you, White folks are now experts on Blackness. They talkin 'bout you Mike.

Listen, it's commonplace within the Black community to have one's "Blackness" questioned or challenged by another Black person; yes, this is something we all know too well. However, when all of a sudden White folks are the experts and have the final say as to just how "Black" I, or any other person of color may be, it's a f*ckin tragedy. Yes it's a tragedy because it suggests that we as Black people no longer own ourselves, our culture or identity.

It's a damn shame that I gotta check with a person in the dominant culture as to quantify, and qualify my level of Blackness for approval. I don't know, but I get the sense that there are "certain people" who are insulted by the outpouring of love for Michael Jackson. Given who this man was, this is unbelievable to me. No wonder Little Richard pitches a bitch and is always talking about what he is owed.

The funny thing about this is that "certain people" are quick to embrace the sellouts misguided Negroes within our collective. When they do, they often chastise people like me who recognize these sellouts misguided Negroes for what they are. These "certain people" secretly wish that more of us were like these sellouts misguided Negroes. But yet they are now "experts" and are dauntless is questioning the "Blackness" of Michael Jackson?

Lets take a look shall we?

Frankly, I don't see a problem with what Diddy or Jamie Foxx said. But don't tell that to the sellout misguided Negro in the clip above. Oh, and just in case he looks familiar? That's the same clown who got on his knees and begged John McCain to take it to Barack Obama in the debates last year. Remember that? Yeah, it was not one of the best moments for Black America. Obviously he doesn't get it, and it's Negroes like him who make "certain people" comfortable to determine just what being Black is or isn't.

But hey, I'm not the expert on Blackness or racism because, well, I'm not White:

Now, I'll go ahead and say that I agree with O'Reilly when he spoke about how the media tore him down, and they are now exploiting his death for ratings. Yes, and that's where I stop as far as agreeing with him. But hey, isn't he not doing the very same thing? Is he not pulling the race card himself by suggesting that Michael Jackson is not Black? I swear I wanted to chop him in the throat when I first heard what he said. I mean, applying his "logic", I guess Madonna and Angelina Jolie aren't White anymore because they've adopted Black kids, right?

Do you see how foolish this is? Yeah you, silly Negro, I'm talking to you. I am because you co-sign with this ridiculous and obvious display of racism as it relates to one of the greatest Black icons ever. You're doing just what I expect "certain people" to do; hell they've been doing it for over 400yrs now, no? Of course they have; and that's the reason they are masters of this. They've run this play in the media time and time again and everybody has bought into it.

I didn't like it then when it was O.J. Simpson and folks were quick to label him a murderer even after he was acquitted. It's the same thing with Michael Jackson today even in his death. You have people quick to label him a pedophile like Congressman Peter King suggested. And you have people like Bill O'Reilly who echo those sentiments as well as suggest that Michael Jackson was a White man. But you know what? It's the people of color who hurt me the most when they become vehicles for the ideology of White Supremacy. The sad thing about it, is that they're too stupid to even realize it.

Here are a few parting words; put this in your pipe and smoke it:

Just like Michael Jackson I hate being Black; I will now transform and become an Albino. Yeah and I'm gonna inject my lips with Collagen too.

That's right; I'm done with you Black people. No longer will I consider myself a Negro, a Black man, African American or whatever other forms of description which implies my ethnic makeup. Damn right, from here on out I wanna be an Albino. Yup, the death of Michael Jackson was all it took for me to see the light.

I mean obviously I'm not Black enough like the Black people who are quick to say that MJ turned his back on the Black community. Or, he had an identity crisis and wanted to be White. Or, that he wanted to be White so bad that he went as far as to buy the sperm out of a White man's balls and have them planted inside a White woman to produce his offspring like Debbie Roe did.

SIDENOTE: Show me a Black woman who would have been comfortable with the arrangement to carry Mike's kids and take the money in exchange for the potential future custody of said kids.

Yeah, this man has been dead exactly one week and now that the initial shock has worn off you Negroes are coming out of the woodwork with this type of talk. Yeah, Michael Jackson hated himself and he wasn't Black enough for you, right? Silly Negroes, how come you never apply the same logic to White folks when they tan themselves to death?

Lemme guess, Mr. Drummond hated himself as well; enough so to go out and adopt "Willis" & "Arnold" who's last name just so happened to be Jackson as well? The thing is, this game has been run so much on us by non-minorities that they've gotten into our heads like my man Macon D over at Stuff White People Do asserted recently.

Do you hear White folks talking this mess in the wake of MJ's death? No you don't. You never hear it said in the media that Michael Jackson hated his Blackness so he lied about Vitilago and then proceeded to bleach his entire body including his penis. No, you never hear that, but yet you hear it from Negroes all damn day long; Negroes who have become experts of the very hate that the hater made themselves.

The funny thing about all this bullshit talk is that I'm willing to bet that all these "I'm Blacker than midnight" folks, perm their hair, wore a Jheri Curl at one point or still do, wash their hair with Garnier Fructise, buy $6 lattes, ate off food stamps, wear expensive weaves made of Asian hair, or never donate to the United Negro College Fund. That's the funny part about all this in my opinion.

They always question the Blackness of famous people of color and use Blackness as a measure of loyalty. I could understand that to an extent, but when you measure MJ's Blackness or loyalty to the Negro collective based on the metamorphosis of his skin color and not his body of work, I find that disingenuous. Save that type of talk for someone who's on the Supreme Court who if he had it his way he'd remove Affirmative Action, the Voting Rights Act, and bring back slavery.

But hey, what do I know. I probably don't agree with these assertions because I too hate myself. Oh well, I'll just have to run out to the store and pick up some of that industrial strength "Hey I Wanna Be White" skin cream. I'll be sure it has enough Hydroquinone to burn my penis off because I'm obviously not Black enough to understand where some folks are coming from.

Let them tell it, James Brown hated himself for wearing a perm as were all the Negro performers who didn’t wear an Afro and a Dashiki back in the day. Yup, self hate produced "Say it Loud (Black & Proud)" and that's why James went back to the perm instead of sporting the Afro until he died. Was James Brown not Black enough or hated himself and that's why he wore a perm? Is Al Sharpton's perm a symbol of self hate?

Yes, Michael Jackson hated himself just as Cher - who has had maybe 15 million ribs removed - or any other entertainer Black or White who has had plastic surgery or wears padded underwear like Beyonce to fool people into thinking she has a fat ass. Ah yes, that hate thing sure is beautiful isn’t it? Hell I hate being Black so much I might just go shrink my penis.

The messed up part of all of this is that everybody is now an expert clinical psychologist on Negro behavior but yet they can't fix their own pathologies. Life would be great if we were all Albinos I suppose. But then again, they’re subjected to much hate so they too possibly hate themselves as well. Sometimes my own people piss me off not because of the things they say. But because they fail to see their own internalized oppression and how they express it.

There are people on the continent of Africa who bleach their faces...

I wonder if they hate themselves as well?

So now that Michael Jackson is Dead the Molested Child Decides to Come Clean and Say it Was a Lie?

The last thing I wanted to do today was write another Michael Jackson related blog. But as I sit hear listening to "Man in the Mirror" I feel moved to bring this one to you. Yes we've been inundated with MJ coverage in the media; coverage which is understandable considering that it’s Michael Jackson and not a panty-less Brittney Spears we're talking about here -- I mean lets be real, this is the friggin King of Pop!

I’ve been taking in the media coverage in small doses so as to prevent myself from going smooth tha f*ck off as the sharks in the water circle around the negative aspects of this man's life. I felt the need to pull myself back from it all even though I understand just how the media machine works. However, I just read this next piece and I'm wondering how come it's not breaking news?

After the sudden death of Michael Jackson Evan Chandler tells the truth.

In 1993, Chandler told a psychiatrist and police that he and Jackson had engaged in sexual acts that included oral sex, the boy gave detailed description of Jackson’s genitals. The case was settled out of court for a reported $22 million, but the strain led Jackson to begin taking painkillers. Eventually he became addicted.

Now maybe for the remorse of his death Chandler decides to tell us the truth. ” I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell only lies. Now i can’t tell Michael how much i’m sorry and if he will forgive me ”.Evan Chandler was tape-recorded saying amongst other things, “If I go through with this, I win big-time. There’s no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever…

Under the influence of a controversial father (Jordan Chandler) told his son to tell that Jackson had touched his penis. Jordan Chandler then told a psychiatrist and later police that he and Jackson had engaged in acts of kissing, masturbation and oral sex, as well as giving a detailed description of what he alleged were the singer’s genitals. ” Now for the first time i can’t bare to lie anymore. Michael Jackson didn’t do anything to me, all was my father lies to escape from being poor.” [source]

Now when I first read that I was about to lose my damn mind; yes, this has been an emotional three days for me and, oh, maybe another several million people around the world? But then my ever so rational mind-state took over -- could this be another bullshit press release the likes of all the ominous stories involving the lifestyle of Michael Jackson? You know, stories like the one about him and Rick James getting coke’d up and drunk while having wild sex with kidnapped young women in basement pits? Ok yeah, so that's not exactly a story in the streets right now, but don't be surprised if it surfaces.

If what Evan Chandler said above is true, or if this were an actual press release I sure would love to see it covered on CNN. As much as I've been critical of the media circus and the death of MJ, just once I wish they – the media -- would look at the man in the mirror like Evan Chandler allegedly did and tell us the truth or at least stop it with the salacious and speculative reporting. But then again, these are the very same people who had us believing that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that George Bush was telling us the truth.

QUESTION: If this story is true (which I doubt it is considering the legal backlash), how does it make you feel knowing this after MJ has died?

Do You Remember The Time?

My mother called me this morning from NYC to talk about the passing of Michael Jackson and that's when it hit me. She said she wanted to make sure that I was ok. I asked her why she felt the need to do that. And she said because she knows me being the oldest of her kids she knows I would remember growing up in a household where all I heard was James Brown and Michael Jackson. When she said that, I cried. Yes, I cried like a baby. I cried because my mother took me back to a period in my life when there were no troubles and life was good.

You know how everybody always says that Mike was the boy who never grew up? Well, maybe that was the gift or beauty of Michael Jackson. Maybe that was the draw to his persona. Maybe we all wished we could do that -- not grow up that is. Now that I think of it, maybe that's why his death is so significant. Maybe, just maybe our childhood died in that UCLA hospital on June 25th. As my mother spoke to me, I could tell that she too was feeling like me. As she spoke I could picture the smile on her face as she recounted those days of old. The days when either her or my father would spin records and dance around the living room happily before their divorce, and the eventual decimation of our family.

Life has been hectic for us all, and I suppose even in his death, his magic or the magic that was Michael Jackson has once again managed to take us to a place that we all miss. He may be gone, but through his timeless music those days of old will live on forever. I never had a Jheri Curl, wore a sequined glove or a red or black leather jacket with zippers. But somehow I still managed as a child to dream, and dream big to be like Mike.You can say or bring up all the negative things you want about him, but trust me, none of that will kill the spirit of love he brought to the world. Yes, today we all now wish we were kids again.

I know I do.

I'm not gonna run out and get a Jheri Curl or anything, but...

I find it ironic that I'm watching the very media who made him, who eventually killed his career, eulogize him and even still, try to assassinate his character even in the end. I mean damn, it's not like he died taking a shit like another famous entertainer or anything even though he did f*ck his daughter. Yes he's and icon, yes this is shocking, but even in the end, they just can't leave him alone. Wasn't that what he asked for? No wonder he lived outside of the country as long as he did. That's all I got for right now folks.

The U.S. media, what a symbiotic relationship they had.