I wrote this piece last year the day I heard the unfortunate news...:/
Ok last blog of the night i promise…I’ve gotta be up for work tomorrow. But I feel as though this picture is self explanatory. I’ve gotta pay my respect to the greatest of all time. Like Michael was a huge influence on so much of the world rather it be musically or in anything else as evident when my favorite athlete Kobe Bryant spoke at Michael’s memorial. I’m going to try to keep this short. When I first got the news that Michael had passed I was at work and my dude Petros texts me and says two things. Vince Carter has been traded to the Orlando Magic and Michael Jackson has passed away. I honestly didn’t believe the 2nd part. Because in my mind I refused to believe that this man who had given me and so much of the world these great times with his amazing music was really gone. Then when I got off like 15 minutes later, I get in the car and I actually don’t turn on the radio and hear the Michael Jackson media frenzy or even look on my phone to see if the news was true. Some how I knew it was true as i sat in traffic so eager to get home i DJ’d my own Michael Jackson songs that meant so much to me throughout my life. Such as “Remember the Times” which was one of the earliest Michael Jackson videos I can actually remember watching debut, I was probably about 3 or 4 years old but I was instantly hooked or “She’s Out of my Life” which really became the theme song of my life briefly when a girl I had developed a thing for moved all the way across the globe or even “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” which was revived in my mind when I heard Chris Tucker singing it on one of the Rush Hour movies. I remember wearing the white suit with one glove attempting to Moon Walk in my youth with my nappy afro. But when I arrived home it was so devastating to see that he was actually gone and there would be no return of him, I would never get the opportunity to meet the man who was such an influence throughout my entire life. But for some reason I feel as though he’s moon walking in a better place. I feel for his family, friends and fans, the world took a major loss but the legacy Michael Jackson leaves is eternal. From 37 weeks on the top of the charts with Thriller to 13 Grammys or 750 records sold world wide, the man was truly a benefit not only to African Americans but to all of man-kind. I could really write about him for days but to say the least R.I.P Michael Jackson. We love you and you may be gone, but never forgotten. ‘Til we meet again…1.
-Terry