Zoinks

Straight from the beginning of MJ's death, TMZ has been really killing the coverage game as far as exclusives. They reported him dead first, they've disclosed the autopsy results before erryone else ... etc ...
For those, like me, that didn't know, the guy who started the site was 'outside reporter/pollster' for The People's Court.

"You think he's at fault?", was usually the question of choice as Levin gave 20 seconds to the staple crowd of out-of-work ladies just passing by.

I know this, because, yes, I watch daytime television.

Today, they've gotten the dibs on an unreleased MJ track that is supposed to be coming out w/ a bunch of other never-been-released tunes.

A looped snippet of the song can be heard here:


You'll probably recognize the melody from America's "Horse With No Name", released in '72.

America - Horse With No Name (Todd Terje Edit)




A) It's cool that Jackson was into this song enough to rock it his way; and B) it reminded me of once hearing that around this same time period, Jackson and Quincy were really into Yellow Magic Orchestra, and recorded a version of one of their songs as well -- read more about it w/ tons of interesting linkage here.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask



I'm kinda hoping for a Chicago cover or other jams from that era to surface.

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And completely unrelated, this track has been burning on the local pirate stations for the last couple months - just tuned in yesterday, was playing, reminded - hence this.

As far as predicting future shot-callers, they've been on the cusp of pretty much every thug-transforming-into-national-star since I've been listening to em. Everything from playing "Hustlin'" months before people in Miami even paid attention to Rick Ross, to bouncing gully Yung Joc album cuts ("A Couple Grand") before "It's Goin Down" even broke.

Yeah, Khaled's Folded Him Into His Camp

Ace Hood - Born an OG (ft. Ludacris)



His other anthem is "Get Em Up"; which is getting play in ATL and N.East; but i put this one up just cuz you prolly wouldn't listen to it if there wasnt a 'name' on it. Eh.

Affordable Living

"I'm Broke."

Michael Jackson's Neverland auction goin down. 

"There are bronze statues of frolicking cherubs, replica marble busts of Roman emperors, a huge statue of Prometheus that used to sit on a skull near the entrance. On shelves there are child-size diesel-powered race cars that used to zoom around the grounds."

Kinda want to go in on this auction -- the suggested prices for some of his gear isn't as atrocious as you might imagine.  Below are a couple pics of things for sale.  Can only imagine what other amazing shit dude has/had?  

Rhinestoned Socks: $600 - 800

Electric buggy to cruise round the Neverland grounds: $4,000 - $6,000

The head from Moonwalker: $2,000 - $3,000

Awards presented to Michael Jackson by Epic for double platinum sales of Dangerous, and gold sales of Bad. Guide price: $200-$400

Coin-operated Fortune Teller a la Big: $1,500 - $2,000

A flight-simulator game made by Sega!  This got the little boys loose back in MJ's prime.

Cost: $4,000 -$6,000

Michael Jackson - Beat It (Guitar Track) played by Eddie Van Halen
* Gotta go back to the source to see if I can get a WAV, but this is the OG, not some karaoke rip.

Having Issues

So I tried uploading the Lil Wayne x Santogold track up on Myspace -- but got this:

Now, out of the hundreds of remixes of the Lollipop song out there; how the hell did mine get caught?!   

Dunno what to say about that.
I read up on this filter they've got -- and apparently once its triggered, they have some sort of hash-check wherein no matter if you reformat the song, it will always be recognized and flagged.

In that case; here's the track again w/ bumped up studio vocals.

Lil Wayne - Lollipop (Contra's Creator Remix)

*Track taken down by DivShare -- you can now find it here.

And here's some awesomeness captured with this old footage of 3 legends together at one time -- James Brown, MJ, & Prince