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		<title>Katt Williams - &quot;Trick Or Treat&quot; [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sha Stimuli</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Katt Williams: Trick Or Treat (Music Video) </strong></p>
<p>This may not be intended to strike fear in anyone but it definitely had me afraid after watching it twice.<br />
<strong> Katt Williams </strong>is not trying to make people laugh anymore, in fact he wants to kill <strong>Dr. Conrad Murray</strong> and if I'm not mistaken, he said something about having sex with the devil on his birthday.</p>
<p>This music video is not<strong> <em>Thriller</em></strong> scary, it's <strong><em>New Jack City</em></strong> scary. Katt Williams is either on that Pookie or Todd Bridges, and what's crazier is he has a team and a crew of people willing to join him in this fiasco right here. Be afraid. </p>
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		<title>Happy 53rd Birthday To The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson [Video]</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2011/08/29/happy-53rd-birthday-to-the-king-of-pop-michael-jackson-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sha Stimuli</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span id="more-112062"></span>Michael Jackson On His 53rd Birthday: Forever The King</strong></p>
<p>The King Of Pop, <strong>Michael Jackson</strong> would be celebrating his 53rd birthday if he had lived today. What can we say that hasn't been said about the greatest entertainer of our generation? He danced and sung his way into our hearts at an early age and left us too soon.</p>
<p>He broke records, changed music and made the video the ultimate form of expression for artists across the globe. From his days as the leader of the Jackson Five to popularizing the moonwalk to releasing the groundbreaking, chart-topping <em><strong>Thriller</strong></em>, Michael will live forever.</p>
<p>Check out his 1995 VMA performance and remember Mike for all he did to keep us smiling.</p>
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		<title>Chris Brown And Affion Crockett Have A &#039;Michael Jackson&#039; Battle [Video]</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2011/08/22/chris-brown-and-affion-crockett-have-a-michael-jackson-battle-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sha Stimuli</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="watch-headline-title"><strong>Chris Brown &amp; Affion Crockett Michael Jackson Battle On *In The Flow*</strong></p>
<p><strong>Chris Brown</strong> stopped by<strong> Affion Crockett's</strong> new sketch comedy show,<em><strong> In The Flow</strong></em> decked in retro <strong>Michael Jackson</strong> gear prepared to do a tribute to the king of pop music.</p>
<p>Affion, dressed similarly, challenged Brown to a "Michael off" and the two battled to see who could do the best job impersonating the creator of <em><strong>Thriller</strong></em>. Both captured Jackson's moves, but someone had to come out on top. Take a look below at the battle.</p>
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		<title>Michael Jackson&#039;s “Thriller” Jacket, Other Memorabilia Up For Auction [Pictures]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Vernon Coleman II</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span id="more-94880"></span>MJ's Iconic “Thriller” Jacket Up For Auction</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>The iconic red and black leather jacket <strong>Michael Jackson </strong>famously wore in the classic <strong>“Thriller”</strong> video will be offered at a Beverly Hills auction in a couple of weeks, according to reports by TMZ.</p>
<p>The jacket, which Jacko personally autographed, will be up for auction along with other MJ memorabilia including the wig he wore during the <strong><em>This Is It</em></strong> news conference in London and a studded glove he donned at the American Music Awards.</p>
<p>The later King of Pop's former items are expected to bring in a handsome sum. The glove is said to be valued between $20,000 to $30,000, while the jacket is expected to bring in <strong>$400k</strong>.</p>
<p>The items will be featured in <strong>Julien's Auction</strong> in Beverly Hills on June 25 and 26.</p>
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		<title>R.I.P. Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2010/06/25/r-i-p-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Canada</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of <strong><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/tag/michael-jackson/">Michael Joseph Jackson.</a></strong></p>
<p>The man recognized as the” Most Successful Entertainer Of All Time” and throned the” King of Pop” was 50-years-old when he died June 25, 2009 after going into cardiac arrest.</p>
<p>Although Jackson was known for his tumultuous life of scandal and bizarre behavior, he is arguably more known for his timeless music.</p>
<p>His album <em>Thriller </em>is the best selling album of all time and during his lifetime he boasted 13 U.S. number one singles, won 13 Grammy awards and in total sold over 800 million albums worldwide.</p>
<p>With his music archived in history and his three surviving children set to inherit $33 million each, Michael Jackson's legacy will carry on for generations to come.</p>
<p>Check out four of MJ's bigest hits below.<span id="more-45570"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Thriller</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/2010/06/25/r-i-p-michael-jackson/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/sOnqjkJTMaA/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Billie Jean</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/2010/06/25/r-i-p-michael-jackson/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Zi_XLOBDo_Y/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Beat It</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0hZG-zNOk"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/2010/06/25/r-i-p-michael-jackson/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ym0hZG-zNOk/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span><br />
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<p style="text-align:center;">Smooth Criminal</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/2010/06/25/r-i-p-michael-jackson/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/zVh7FL7-SQw/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">R.I.P. Michael!</p>
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		<title>LA Police Chief:  I Can&#039;t Rule Out Michael Jackson Was Murdered</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2009/07/10/la-police-chief-i-cant-rule-out-michael-jackson-was-murdered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hip-Hop Wired</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although the great MJ was heavily in debt, don't sleep on the possibility he could have been murdered with the thinking his estate would be more valuable if he was dead. He had a lot of shady and greedy Hollyweird types around him and we wouldn't put Shyte past these characters:</p>
<p>Los Angeles' top cop said on Thursday night that homicide has not been ruled out in the death of Michael Jackson as <a href="http://bossip.com/129779/la-police-chief-i-cant-rule-out-michael-jackson-was-murdered-shady-joe-jackson-says-it-was-foul-play/#more-129779">investigators</a></p>
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		<title>WHEN &quot;HEAVEN CAN WAIT&quot;:  Teddy Riley Remembers Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2009/07/08/when-heaven-can-wait-teddy-riley-remembers-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dasun Allah</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mjandteddyriley-copy-11.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2837" title="MJandTeddyRiley copy-1" src="http://hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mjandteddyriley-copy-11.jpg" alt="MJandTeddyRiley copy-1" width="440" height="336" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Teddy Riley, the father of “New Jack Swing” recalls his time with the “King of Pop.”</p></blockquote>
<p>As the world celebrates the life of Michael Jackson, one man truly has things to share when the moment arrives to “Remember The Time.” Producer Teddy Riley, who worked with Michael on the <em>Dangerous, Blood on the Dance Floor </em>and <em>Invincible</em> projects, took the time to share some of his journey with the late, great Michael Jackson.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> I caught one of your recent interviews on CNN, and you started to talk about some of the things that you learned from Michael; what did he help you to appreciate about production and songwriting?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> He helped me to appreciate just the art of it and how it really was because back in the day you didn't have a sequencer. Back in the day, you had a piano player there and people would write the song first with the piano or first with the guitar player and then everything goes to tape after that. That's how the bands, after they knew the songs and after they taught all the musicians and all the background singers the parts that they would sing, they all would go into one room and cut it. He taught me the beauty of songwriting. That is the beauty. I think songwriting from a track is a little like making love without foreplay. And I never put it that way to anyone. But it just came to mind like, you going straight to have sex. Where is the beauty? Where's the piano? Where is the piano? Where's that Marvin Gaye song? That's how love is made and that's how music is made, with a piano to get you in the mood. That's what it's about.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired:</strong> How long did the recording sessions last?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> A real one? (Laughs.) A real one, I can give you some experiences of a real recording session with Michael. I sat in sessions with Kool &amp; The Gang and it took like 8 hours just to tune the drums. Literally, like 8 hours. Go get tea, go get coffee, go look at a movie, while the engineer and the drummer just sit and hit the tom toms for about an hour and move the mic around. And then the piano, tuning the piano, the tuner would have to tune the piano, and we have to set up the mics on the piano where we would get the crispiness of that piano sound. That's two hours alone. Now what you'd call a modern day session is fast. Like I can do a modern day session in less than an hour. Get vocals done in another hour. The session is over at the end of the day. “Celebration,” “Ladies' Night,” was three days. Michael Jackson's “Heal The World” was a month. Matter of fact, I think longer than that ‘cause they did it in days like with a string session. What I did with Michael doing strings on “Heaven Can Wait,” was like, we did the track first, that all took one day, and then the string section and then we did the guitar session and that's about three days. So the modern day is a little quick. Lil' Wayne, all those guys, the new cats, they cut a record in an hour. Michael Jackson, Kool &amp; The Gang, Frank Sinatra, they take the time to get all that stuff tuned and get it all right so they are setting up the mood with the sound.</p>
<p><a href="http://hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dangerous2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2839" title="dangerous" src="http://hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dangerous2.jpg" alt="dangerous" width="450" height="450" /></a></p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> So Michael would never have a “modern day” session?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> Oh he had modern day sessions before, but he's not used to it. Like he's done Pro-tools sessions. He's not really used to that but it made his life easier because he could sit and cut 24 tracks and then let the producer do what he do. Y'all want that work? Alright, you made life easier for me. But the sound is not the same. There's a difference. It's a big difference.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> You mentioned in the CNN interview it was difficult for you to produce him at first because of the awe aspect of how great an artist he is, to not be able to check him as far as his vocals, he had to pull you out of that. How did that dynamic work itself out?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong>Oh it worked itself out when he shook me. Not shook me literally, but when he shook me with words like, ‘Listen, you're going to have to really produce me like you've produced a new artist. I need you to talk to me, I need you to criticize me, I need you to comment, I need you to give me all of you. I want the Teddy Riley that got that record out of Guy and the records out of your previous artists. It took you really producing them. I want you to really produce me. So I got used to it and I got into my own world. So that's definitely a memorable moment.</p>
<p>The other memorable moment was we were in a session and he was singing a song in the room and an anvil case kind of fell his way and I don't know if it really fell on him, but it kind of fell his way and he heard the loud sound of an anvil case falling to the ground. You immediately heard him saying, ‘Help,' but it was almost like him doing that ‘Ooh' like in that “Beat It” video. You heard that high-pitched voice saying, ‘Help! Help!' and we were like, ‘What's going on' and then Bruce Swedien was saying, ‘I think something fell on him.' Then we all went in the room. We wanted to find out if he was ok first. Then when we found out he was ok, he was like ‘the loud sound just scared me.' After we found out he was ok, we just started laughing. You got to see if a person is alright. If they're alright, then you laugh.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> We know about <em>Dangerous</em>, but <em>Blood On The Dance Floor</em> and <em>Invincible,</em> how did those projects work out?<br />
<strong><br />
Teddy Riley:</strong> The involvement was I was supposed to be on the History album and I came up for the History album but Michael wasn't in the studio, he wasn't really doing any work so I was just sitting there and I didn't want to waste his money or his time, which I wasn't wasting his time but, he was wasting his money by me sitting there, so I said, ‘Let me go home and then when you need me, call me.' And then Jimmy Iovine didn't want me to work on that project so he scratched me from the project.</p>
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<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> Why would he not want you to work on the Michael Jackson project?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> Cause he wanted all the projects for himself. I had just came off a double platinum album with Blackstreet. He wanted me to work on the second project for Blackstreet, which was the Another Level album, so he gave me anything that I wanted to get back to working on that album.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> So you got involved with the Blackstreet project. How did it go back to ya'll reuniting for Invincible?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> After “No Diggity,” I came back off my tour, he loved that record, so he called me and he said, ‘Listen, I want you to help me finish this record' and he had already did a bunch of tracks with Rodney Jerkins. So I got called in at the end of the project.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> How were those sessions in comparison to sessions for <em>Dangerous/Blood On The Dance Floor</em>?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley:</strong> It was more of a modern day session on Invincible as opposed to Dangerous. We went to traditional days of recording [with Dangerous].</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong>How are you coping? After seeing the CNN interview, I didn't know how you would be about talking about this.</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> Listen. You know where I'm from. We come from the real. We come from a place where we keep it real and it's just so crazy how this stuff here has been going on and now finally when something happens to him everyone wants to come back, pay homage, benefit from this and there's no benefiting from this. People want to throw a party or do something but, this ain't about a party. Yes, we should celebrate him because that's what he would want of us, but all of the making money and all that stuff. No. If you don't have any past things with him or you haven't been there to check on him when he was going through his trials and tribulations, then I don't see where you fit… I don't see where you fit.</p>
<p>I have a legitimate contribution and I have a legitimate friendship with Michael Jackson. I have something that no one, a lot of people have never done with him other than Quincy Jones, Greg Philliganes, Bruce Swedien, Renee from Renee &amp; Angela, and a few people… Babyface got to work with him. I got to work with this man. I got to sit and talk with him. I got to cry on his shoulder. I got to talk and really express some things that were just him and I that I just didn't understand and he helped me understand it. Then there's some things that he wanted to understand like why are they doing this to him. I couldn't help him understand that because it was bigger than me, but I was always that shoulder. I was always that friend he could've said anything to. He expressed a lot of his most deepest concerns and feelings about a lot of things. I know some personal relationships that he has gone through, female relationships and different things like that but I would never disclose that. That's the stuff that I know.</p>
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<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> How did that period of him going through trials and tribulations affect you as someone who knew and worked with him?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley: </strong> It affected me because as a friend, you on CNN. If the media can say so much about us to tear us down, why we can't say something about them to tear them down? And the thing about it is, once we do that, we get cut off in the interview and some of it doesn't get played.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong>Were you cut off in that interview?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley:</strong> No, I wasn't. I cut myself off. I couldn't do it no more. I couldn't take it.</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> What was it like when you heard of Michael's passing? On CNN you said that were bed-ridden…</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley:</strong> Oh, yeah. Two days. I just said… You know, my mom convinced me to get out of bed. My mom convinced me and I said ‘alright, I got to get out of this bed.'</p>
<p><strong>HipHopWired: </strong> What now? Do you have any plans for doing anything in honor and tribute to him musically, creatively, or be a part of anything to that effect?</p>
<p><strong>Teddy Riley:</strong> Let me tell you some of the things that I am doing with the family's approval…The one thing that I wanted to do which I told him, and I got a chance to tell him, that I wanted to make “Heaven Can Wait” over with Blackstreet. He gave me the song “Joy,” it's on the first Blackstreet album, he gave it to me for Blackstreet, his name is on the record if you go back to it, and he gave me his blessings. That's the only thing that I asked to do and I will reiterate that with the family because I want that on the new Blackstreet record and whether a part of the proceeds go for his foundation or whatever, I don't care, I want to do the song because that song never came out as a single and that was one of our favorites. When I did that song with him, he held his heart and he said ‘Teddy, is this mine?' I said, ‘It's yours if you want it, Michael' He's like: ‘I want it, let's go get it!' He was so excited. I have a couple of witnesses that were in the room when he said ‘I want that song. I need that song in my life.'</p>
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		<title>Michael Jackson To Possibly Receive Congressional Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Canada</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Houston Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson introduced House Resolution 600 at the Michael Jackson memorial. If passed, the Resolution will honor The King of Pop as an American legend, musical icon and world humanitarian. Congresswoman Jackson described Michael saying he is:</p>
<p>“Someone who will be honored forever and forever and forever and forever and forever.”</p>
<p>Before MJ can receive his congressional “pat on the back,” Resolution 600 will <span id="more-2853"></span>be debated on the House floor and could face strong opposition from GOP members who feel the same way as Republican Peter King. King said Tuesday:</p>
<p>“I will do everything in my power to make sure that Michael Jackson is not honored!”</p>
<p>Peter King is the same representative from New York that posted a YouTube video calling Michael a “pedophile, a child molester and a pervert.”</p>
<p>Jackson made sure to point out that Michael was never convicted of any crimes saying:</p>
<p>“We understand the Constitution. We understand laws and we know people are innocent until proven otherwise. That is what the Constitution stands for!”</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Peter King, he will not have a say in the passing of the Resolution. It will be debated by the House Foreign Affairs Committee which he is not a part of.</p>
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		<title>Jackson 5 - &quot;I Want You Back&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Quincy Jones Says Michael Jackson Wanted To Be White</title>
		<link>http://hiphopwired.com/2009/07/02/quincy-jones-says-michael-jackson-wanted-to-be-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Canada</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a candid and downright strange interview with <em>Men's Health</em>, Quincy Jones spoke about losing his longtime friend Michael Jackson. In the interview Jones is adamant that Michael never had the skin disease Vitiligo. Instead he says MJ used chemical peels to strip his skin of its color.</p>
<p>“Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he'd come up with, "Man, I promise you I have this <span id="more-2531"></span>disease," and so forth, and "I have a blister on my lungs," and all that kind of B.S.  It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man—he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff…”</p>
<p>He then continued on talking about the “King of Pop” saying that he wanted to be white.</p>
<p>“It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be Black.”<br />
When asked if that's what he really thinks Michael's problem was, he replied, “Well what do you think? You see his kids?”</p>
<p>Following that he was then asked if he thought Michael was beautiful before the chemical peels to which he replied,  “Man, he was the most gorgeous guy.”</p>
<p>In related news, Michael Jackson's funeral has been scheduled for Tuesday at The Staples Center in Los Angeles.</p>
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