I first heard he had heart attack and I thought "oh nothing serious", but then I started hearing reports pop up of him dying and I could not believe him.
He was weird guy in his later years. Yes. I don't know what to believe with him and his molestation charges. The media and others trying to **** with him tried to portray him as a pedophile. He really should have stayed away from children, but the media had a ball with it and exaggerated many of the claims.
Now his reputation was "Wacko-Jacko", with kids unappreciative of his work simply deeming him as "lulz crazy child molester". This man had more talent than half the people on the radio combined. He was timeless. That "R&B" singer talking about having sex with girl at a club in an electronic voice, or that 'hard core' rocker roaring into his microphone about blood will be forgotten in 5 or 10 years. Perhaps less.
I will not cast him as a saint. Even with his harsh childhood, he should have found help and to not degenerate in to that controversy. Michael Jackson was the first musician I could recognize. I do not know a lot of bands or singers by the artist, only by their songs, but MJ was a big exception.
I hate to sound like a fanboy, or biased, but it is completely fine if you did not like his music. You could be repulsed by him by his looks or molestation controversies. But you must understand how big of a deal he was. I believe one person said why "Dimebag"'s death did not get as much coverage as this? Michael Jackson is a legend to people of various ages, races, ethnicity and tastes. No offense to Dimebag at all, but I had to look him up to find out who he is. Pantera is a really big band, but really, you could probably ask more people on the street who MJ was than who Pantera was. Not saying MJ is better than Pantera, just that MJ was and continues to be extremely popular.
