songs that have an mj reference to them

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1. Aint It Funny Remix- Jennifer Lopez ft. Ja Rule & Cadillac Tah
Ja Rule says, "Off the wall like MJ in his early days"

2. Knock You Down- Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
Kanye says, "This is bad, real bad: Michael Jackson"

3. American Boy- Estelle ft. Kanye West
Kanye says, "And I'm feelin' like Mike at his baddest"

4. Judith Hill - I will always be missing you
I will always be missing you, Michael

5. The World Ain't Slowin Down by Ellis Paul

'Out on the sidewalk, the pigeons do the moonwalk...'

6. Slow Jamz- Twista ft. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx
Kanye says, "She got a light-skinned friend that look like Michael Jackson, got a dark- skinned friend that look like Michael Jackson".

7. tech nine- From the song "Like Yeah": "Even Michael Jackson says its Off The Wall

8. Ask Michael Jackson who's bad? He says I am, I'm the Queen, not drag..."
for those that don't know, that's taken from Missy's rap in "Steelo" (1997),

9. MystiKal- (forgot which song) "bad like Mike"

10. Bart Simpson "Do The Bartman" (also written by MJ under an alias) " if you can do the Bartman, you're bad like Michael Jackson

11. Mos Def from Mathematics:
"I guess Michael Jackson was right, you are not alone..."

12. Eletrik Red's "W.F.Y" says: "Just like Michael, you can really beat it"

13. Eric Roberson has a song on his new album, Music Fan First, called "Celebrate" where he pays tribute to Michael and others.

"There's not an artist out there who can even say they weren't influenced by Michael Jackson. Even a person who thinks that they weren't influenced by him was influenced by someone who was influenced by him. Clearly the greatest performer ever. So I choose to just celebrate his life, celebrate his music, turn that music all the way up..and just remember him."

Later in the song he says "Don't mind me, I'm just getting my Michael Jackson on."

14. Usher sings this in U-Turn:
"In the 80s, fresh was the talk.
MJ had everybody doing the moonwalk."

15. Fat Joe ft Ashanti- What's Love

"I walk up in the club with my hat down Michael Jack style."

16. In Gangsta (No Friend Of Mine) The dude says "'Less you wanna call me, concede it.
'Cause I'm a smooth criminal I told her to beat it." if that counts because Michael was in that song...

17. Knock You Down by Keri Hilson, Kanye West says this:

This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson
Now I'm mad, real mad, Joe Jackson

18. Jay-Z's song Venus vs. Mars has 2 I think:
'Whether Black or white we both like Mike'
and,
'I thought shawty like Mike, found out she like Prince'

19. FLOP CULTURE - FM Static

When I was young I used to turn up the bass and
Rock out to Billie Jean and Thriller in my basement
When Michael Jackson was a pop sensation
Every second song on the radio station
Remember Axle telling us to have patience
And records sold without any affiliation
When William hung and music still had no relation
Someone tell Janet bring back the rhythm nation.

No gloves, no zipper coats
No more yellow submarines or kokomos
If we could ask Luther Vandross
I bet he'd wonder the same…

Can ya tell me what happened to Michael Jackson?
And MTV trading music for acting?
Avril Lavignes on the cover of Maxim
Woah oh oh oh

20. Erick Sermon - Erick Sermon
"I'm bad as Michael Jackson even though he Dangerous"

21. EPMD - It's Going Down
"No lights, no camera, but lots of action / No moonwalkin' backwards kid, like Michael Jackson

22. Fugees - Ready Or Not
"I change faces like Michael Jackson's Thriller

23. Watch your back - Benny Cassette
" You've been defeated, you're messing with a thriller who told 'ya to beat it...."

24.Justin Timberlake ft. Three 6 Mafia - Chop me up
Like Michael Jackson, "how you do me this way?" Got me crying rivers like Timbaland and Timberlake.

Bow Wow & Omarion - Bachelor Pad
I said the floor touch sensitive ma, really though. When we walk, they light up like Billie Jean video.

26. Lil' Wayne - Bedrock
She got that good good. She Michael Jackson bad.

27. Drake - Over
'Bout to go Thriller Michael Jackson on these---
All I need is some a --- red jacket with some zippers

28. Missy Elliot - Gossip Folks
I don't even care about her being pregnant by Michael Jackson
__________________
29.Kanye West - Impossible
"Since Michael Jackson made Rock With You
 
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Jay Z - Onto The Next One

MJ at summerjam, Obama on the text,
y’all should be afraid of what I’m gonna do next.
Hold up

(I think Jay is referring to the 2001 summer jam, MJ made a guest appearance and no one thought he'd show up.)

Coldplay ft. Jay Z - Lost (my all time fave)

With the same sword they knight you, they gon' good night you with
Shit, that's only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Caesar, see Brutus, see success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, niggaz sue you, you settle
Every step you take, they remind you you're ghetto
So it's tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you have to be Bobby now
And the question is, "Is to have had and lost
Better than not having at all?"

Busted (and The Jonas Brothers) - Year 3000

I Took A Trip To The Year 3000
This Song Had Gone Multi Platinum
Everybody Bought Our Seventh Album
It Had Outsold Michael Jackson (later replaced with "Kelly Clarkson" when Jonas Bros covered it).
 
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Skin
Sade

When I found out this love's undone
I was like a gun
Sure as it was over
Felt like nothing good could come
Sure as it's gonna play and play
Like Michael back in the day
I'm gonna peel you away
 
Marc Almond has a 1995 song called "The Idol"

The last part is a reference to all the idols that has died and how they died. Lyrics end with

"And who will be next on the big cross of fame?
A white sequinned glove and a big famous name?"
 
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