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May 31, 2007

Bad Meets Evil: Michael Jackson Invests In Eminem

Hasn't Jacko been in financial trouble for years now? Guardian reports that, arrears be damned, MJ's partnership company Sony/ATV purchased the publishing entity Famous Music for $370 million from Viacom via auction yesterday. (Imagine that auctioneer: "SOLD to the ma...woma...person raising the gloved hand.")

So to the Beatles, add Björk, Beck, and other artists that don't fit this alliterative scheme to Michael's personal stash of song rights. Experts say the most valuable catalogue controlled by Famouse Music is that of Marshall Mathers. A Sony/ATV exec says Famous Music is a "world-class asset filled with evergreen songs that people know and love," but we wouldn't put it past the Freak Of Pop to orchestrate this whole thing just to own Slim after this bit of hair-flaming fun.

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I don’t get Michael Jackson. I mean, here is a man who aspires to a level of weirdness that makes everyone on Earth uncomfortable, but does nothing to change his image, refuses to stop complaining about how everyone else makes fun of him, or above all else - stop being a pedophile! Now, his extravagant tastes have caught up with him and he can’t even pay the zookeeper who feeds the monkeys at Neverland; yet he somehow has the time, energy and cash-flow to invest in undermining Eminem!

This only pisses me off because I’d hate to see other artists who’ve done nothing to Jackson, wake up to find their music used to sell shoes. It’s just wrong, but Michael Jackson’s greed and vanity will catch up with him one day - mark my words!

Posted by: Ju Bean at 05/31/07 11:37 AM | Reply
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michael jackson uses e-mail.

Posted by: calebs at 05/31/07 11:45 AM | Reply
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MJ has the last laugh Ha Ha Ha!!

Posted by: MJfanatic at 05/31/07 1:38 PM | Reply
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I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'm pretty sure that Michael Jackson sold off the rights to the Beatles songs in the late 90s, when he was hard up for money.

I seem to remember that he sold them off for, like, $90 million. I thought that was a) a lot of money, and b) weird for him to have them in the first place.

Posted by: Stu at 05/31/07 3:13 PM | Reply
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Michael is dangerous - Hee heee
he doent need to hate or lie -
He rules - this is not revenge
it is business - this was orchastrated
by sony not Michael - although he does
benifit -- kudos for the King - not former
as NO one has taken or claimed that Tiltle
It is his alone - his personal life has no
bearing and is greatly exagerated - negatively
by hateful people - who like to destroy others
for thier own sucess - Long live the KING -

Posted by: LWG at 05/31/07 3:23 PM | Reply
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To Stu: Michael never sold ATV Music Publishing Corp (which he purchased in 1984) - he merged it with Sony Music Publishing Corp in 1995 in return for $90 million cash, creating Sony/ATV Music Publishing Corp. So it's a 50/50 deal. The company is now worth over $1 billion.

Posted by: John P. Stern, Jr. at 05/31/07 9:55 PM | Reply
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Eminem feeds a lot of mouths.

Posted by: Filipe at 06/07/07 10:40 AM | Reply
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i disagree he is not wierd and he's definitly not a pedofile, he's just very misunderstood by many

Posted by: terrah at 06/09/07 10:02 PM | Reply
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LONG LIVE KING OF POP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: david at 06/25/07 7:57 PM | Reply
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haha good on MJ... What goes around comes around

Posted by: Hol at 08/06/07 10:11 AM | Reply
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Ju Bean shut the fuck up your being rude to him and making false claims right now and Stu he still owns the beatles what the hell is with some of you guys? It's really crazy how some people want him to lose the rights to the beatles catalog so badly. Lastly to the guy who wrote this article his name is JACKSON and no he ain't broke which is why time and time again we always have to say don't believe everything you read or hear and also it's KING of pop stop being a prick.

Posted by: Jason at 03/03/08 7:27 PM | Reply
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suck on that Eminem. now who’s bad?
That’s what I call a revenge.

Now MJ will sell you silly songs to McDonalds ads hahaha

Posted by: jam at 05/03/08 2:25 PM | Reply
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