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THE BUSINESS OF THE DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON
I purposefully sat out JULY to slowly write and regroup on how I was going to recommit the Terrordome into a true 2-3 times a month Blog . The Michael Jackson death required a month and a mouth of silence. We have lost a lot of SOUL over the past 5-10 years, JAMES BROWN, RAY CHARLES, RUTH BROWN, WILSON PICKETT, but the passing of MICHAEL JACKSON took the cake and has to make us all realize how short life really is here on earth. I was on a DELTA flight flying in from New York to Los Angeles when I saw the beginning of this tragedy from the seat screens that broadcast in the air. CNN showed breaking news and I glanced at it occasionally while I worked on my computer (taking advantage of the power source under the seat and the in-flight internet). It was then I noticed that the Breaking News exceeded a half hour, and I was getting IMs from the ground saying Jackson had passed. This news gradually became a reality for me as Wolf Blitzer made the announcement from the LA Times. I was flying straight there to drive up the coast so I knew to avoid all major highways near the UCLA hospital. Already the frenzy had started and I had an interview when driving up the coastline on PCH. I immediately told the reporter for the newly reduced Atlanta Journal Constitution that I was a bit in a (no big pun intended) STATE OF SHOCK, but knew that everybody was gonna pour out massive emotions in the wake of his death.
DAVEY D COVERED it thoroughly LAST MONTH. And he said it best from Jackson's public Memorial at STAPLES CENTER in Los Angeles:
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Michael Jackson and his family had been on my mind as recently as earlier this year. When I started one of my newest ventures, my songwriting company, I wondered about making some songs for the rest of the Jackson brothers, who I thought people would see without Mike. I didn't enjoy the fact that the JACKSON men weren't really in the business anymore. Nor recording. Nor really performing. I know that they'd seen/done it all, but I felt and feel that they are more of an institution that some rumor machine, ready for TMZ or the ENQUIRER, would only mention because of their brother. I was pissed because I knew that the heart and soul of this genius of Mike Jax was hurting and was collapsing under this negative non-stop attacking of his character. And alongside this, knowing that SONY would do anything to get that publishing back.
Still I knew the JACKSONS, Michael included, probably couldn't get a return call from this so-called business of a recording industry. I knew then that Urban and fake-black radio wouldn't play a thing from Mike if he was independent while he was alive. Prompting some fake ass DJs, Program Directors and Music Directors to test the market to see if he was hot, and instead playing some nondescript, nowadays "quick artist" singing nothing for nobody important. Cool, play your flavor of the month, some audio-sewage pumped by what remaining few labels are left. But damn, be open to acknowledge royalty in music when it calls. Or before it dies. Mike and the JAX clan had been doing this before many had a thought about being in the music biz. My thoughts if I was a radio programmer would be let MIKE be Mike and have the label deliver whatever. And play it to death, instead of playing him to his death. Yes, these so called urban powers that be, "played" him, alright, like they play with the masses of blackfolk listening, watching, and tuning and snoozing in.
Oh yeah, BET was a disaster zone waiting to happen when it rushed their so called tribute.
Cheap news for expensive yet broke ass times. ET, Larry King LIVE and every other so called 'news bureau' has been covering, uncovering, cowering, hovering over this for a month and a half. I can see that. But when major news networks become 'nitworks' replacing real, more important news with the aftermath of 'mess' and rumor, there stands a reason for concern.
Well ,myself being around the Jackson generation age where parents doled out ass whippings when crossed,I see where PC white america is shaken by Joe Jackson. While I think he was a bit over the top later on with the disease of 'fame,' his root reasons were to get his family and himself the hell out the hood. All you got to do is check the Jackson mini-series film for some reference. Call it what you want, but I've been witnessing 25 years of black kids killing each other in the midst of absent black fathers and over-flooded one-sided stereotypes in the media. Especialy black boys, as my wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson points out. Joe Jackson might be seen a bit crazy to white america, but join the club, many of us loud black men are.
Michael Jackson needed somebody to support him when times seemed a bit low. If not the industry, at least the community. The increased support for prominent black people only when they're dead has to stop. But then again maybe Michael is our version of ELVIS. The business of the death of Michael Jackson has begun, how sad. If that is indeed the case, I'm casting my vote for IKE and NAT Turner week at a mall nearest you. ChuckD@publicenemy.com
THE BUSINESS OF THE DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON
I purposefully sat out JULY to slowly write and regroup on how I was going to recommit the Terrordome into a true 2-3 times a month Blog . The Michael Jackson death required a month and a mouth of silence. We have lost a lot of SOUL over the past 5-10 years, JAMES BROWN, RAY CHARLES, RUTH BROWN, WILSON PICKETT, but the passing of MICHAEL JACKSON took the cake and has to make us all realize how short life really is here on earth. I was on a DELTA flight flying in from New York to Los Angeles when I saw the beginning of this tragedy from the seat screens that broadcast in the air. CNN showed breaking news and I glanced at it occasionally while I worked on my computer (taking advantage of the power source under the seat and the in-flight internet). It was then I noticed that the Breaking News exceeded a half hour, and I was getting IMs from the ground saying Jackson had passed. This news gradually became a reality for me as Wolf Blitzer made the announcement from the LA Times. I was flying straight there to drive up the coast so I knew to avoid all major highways near the UCLA hospital. Already the frenzy had started and I had an interview when driving up the coastline on PCH. I immediately told the reporter for the newly reduced Atlanta Journal Constitution that I was a bit in a (no big pun intended) STATE OF SHOCK, but knew that everybody was gonna pour out massive emotions in the wake of his death.
DAVEY D COVERED it thoroughly LAST MONTH. And he said it best from Jackson's public Memorial at STAPLES CENTER in Los Angeles:
Davey D at Michael Jackson's Memorial.
:
Michael Jackson and his family had been on my mind as recently as earlier this year. When I started one of my newest ventures, my songwriting company, I wondered about making some songs for the rest of the Jackson brothers, who I thought people would see without Mike. I didn't enjoy the fact that the JACKSON men weren't really in the business anymore. Nor recording. Nor really performing. I know that they'd seen/done it all, but I felt and feel that they are more of an institution that some rumor machine, ready for TMZ or the ENQUIRER, would only mention because of their brother. I was pissed because I knew that the heart and soul of this genius of Mike Jax was hurting and was collapsing under this negative non-stop attacking of his character. And alongside this, knowing that SONY would do anything to get that publishing back.
Still I knew the JACKSONS, Michael included, probably couldn't get a return call from this so-called business of a recording industry. I knew then that Urban and fake-black radio wouldn't play a thing from Mike if he was independent while he was alive. Prompting some fake ass DJs, Program Directors and Music Directors to test the market to see if he was hot, and instead playing some nondescript, nowadays "quick artist" singing nothing for nobody important. Cool, play your flavor of the month, some audio-sewage pumped by what remaining few labels are left. But damn, be open to acknowledge royalty in music when it calls. Or before it dies. Mike and the JAX clan had been doing this before many had a thought about being in the music biz. My thoughts if I was a radio programmer would be let MIKE be Mike and have the label deliver whatever. And play it to death, instead of playing him to his death. Yes, these so called urban powers that be, "played" him, alright, like they play with the masses of blackfolk listening, watching, and tuning and snoozing in.
Oh yeah, BET was a disaster zone waiting to happen when it rushed their so called tribute.
Cheap news for expensive yet broke ass times. ET, Larry King LIVE and every other so called 'news bureau' has been covering, uncovering, cowering, hovering over this for a month and a half. I can see that. But when major news networks become 'nitworks' replacing real, more important news with the aftermath of 'mess' and rumor, there stands a reason for concern.
Well ,myself being around the Jackson generation age where parents doled out ass whippings when crossed,I see where PC white america is shaken by Joe Jackson. While I think he was a bit over the top later on with the disease of 'fame,' his root reasons were to get his family and himself the hell out the hood. All you got to do is check the Jackson mini-series film for some reference. Call it what you want, but I've been witnessing 25 years of black kids killing each other in the midst of absent black fathers and over-flooded one-sided stereotypes in the media. Especialy black boys, as my wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson points out. Joe Jackson might be seen a bit crazy to white america, but join the club, many of us loud black men are.
Michael Jackson needed somebody to support him when times seemed a bit low. If not the industry, at least the community. The increased support for prominent black people only when they're dead has to stop. But then again maybe Michael is our version of ELVIS. The business of the death of Michael Jackson has begun, how sad. If that is indeed the case, I'm casting my vote for IKE and NAT Turner week at a mall nearest you. ChuckD@publicenemy.com
