An early version of "Word to the Badd!" leaked out and received radio play. It was written in criticism of brother Michael Jackson when the two brothers were on bad terms. The lyrics were rewritten for the album version, making the song about an unnamed former romantic interest instead. (source: wikipedia)
So basically the "diss version" wasn't released intentionally. At least, that's what I'm reading between the lines..
So it might have been leaked to radio stations, not intentionally released. Either way, I can't hate Jermaine. No one knows what happened between them except the brothers themselves. I agree the lyrics are very harsh but people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret.
So it might have been leaked to radio stations, not intentionally released. Either way, I can't hate Jermaine. No one knows what happened between them except the brothers themselves. I agree the lyrics are very harsh but people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret.
The "is Jermaine a good guy or a bad guy" convos go around and around. Here are some facts. The song Word to the Badd was one of most vicious verbal attacks that one person has made against another, family member or not. Jermaine knew perfectly well that Michael did not intentionally change his skin-color, but yet attacked him anyway. The jealousy in the song is obvious.
Michael basically begged Jermaine not to release the song, for both their sakes, and they had a confrontation. Contrary to popular mythology, I don't think they actually came to blows over it in the Havenhurst driveway! Jermaine released the song anyway. As Michael had warned him, it torpedoed his career, what there was of it at that time. I believe the song largely destroyed Jermaine's fan-base. Some MJ fans also bought Jermaine records, as a correlary to Michael. Jermaine's career took a nose-dive, after that and Jermaine dropped out of sight.
There is no indication that I've ever seen that Jermaine and Michael reconciled after that. If there is, I surely haven't heard of it. Yes, Jermaine was at the trial. Good for him. He should have been. Michael did the MSG concerts with his brothers (part of it) as a kindness to them, but that was it. Over the years, Jermaine sometimes made noises about a J-5 reunion concert or tour, and Michael then would have to issue a statement denying it. That happened many times.
Jermaine has repeatedy said lately, that he was "Michael's voice and his backbone." NO, he wasn't. Michael had his OWN "voice and backbone."
With that said, and regardless, we must not call Jermaine names on this board. Name-calling and attacks are against the rules of the board, and diminish us as human-beings. We can have opinions, but respect is still the rule here.
Word to the Badd, by Jermaine Jackson
What up yo,
word to the badd
Reconstructed
Been abducted
Don’t know who you are
They may love you
they don’t know you
Lonely superstar
never think about who you love
only think about number one
You forget about where you started from
You only think about what you want
don’t care about how it’s done
you only think about you, your throne
Be it right or be it wrong
It ain’t about your world
It ain’t about the things that you do
If you don’t care, I don’t care
Cause you keep thinkin’ ’bout you
It ain’t about you takin’ my pie
You been takin’ for a long time
If you don’t care, I don’t care
If you keep
Well I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
What up yo, word to the badd
Once you were made
You changed your shade
Was your color wrong?
Could not turn back
It’s a known fact
You were too far gone
You know I tried to be there for you
Like a brother I care for you
It didn’t matter you always play me off
You only care about what you want
You don’t care about how it’s done
You only think about you, your throne
Be it right or wrong
It ain’t about your world
It ain’t about the things that you do
If you don’t care, I don’t care
Cause you keep thinkin’ ’bout you
It ain’t about you takin’ my pie
You been takin’ for a long time
If you don’t care, I don’t care
If you keep
Well I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Oh no no, I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Oh no
What up yo, word to the badd
Thinkin’ about that pie that you’ve been takin’ from me
From a brother to another brother hard to believe
Lost and don’t know it yet you still show it
Givin’ seems to be harder than it is to receive
The glass has gotten shady, time to make it clearer,
Clean it up and lets start with the Man in the mirror.
Theres sadness there brother, aint no mistaken it,
Get a grip cause youre not far from breakin it.
Thinkin about the time when we used to be close,
It shouldnt be past tense, cause nobody knows,
What the future may hold, what tomorrow might bring,
Its not guaranteed that youll be spreading your wings
But meanwhile, I continue to smile, cause in the back of my head,
I know you’re still a child
You say that your a man, but that will never be.
Not intentionally released???!!!!! HA… Ha…. ha……… :doh:
Yeah , “people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret”
But not THAT loud, that whole world could hear it! :wild:
Civilized people talk about private stuff privately.
And, Victoria, everything you wrote is exactly what I thought!!!!!
I assume you know the meaning of "to leak". And you might have noticed I used a form of possibility in that sentence. :smilerolleyes:Not intentionally released???!!!!! HA… Ha…. ha……… :doh:
Yeah , “people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret”
But not THAT loud, that whole world could hear it! :wild:
Civilized people talk about private stuff privately.
So it might have been leaked to radio stations, not intentionally released. Either way, I can't hate Jermaine. No one knows what happened between them except the brothers themselves. I agree the lyrics are very harsh but people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret.
I assume you know the meaning of "to leak". And you might have noticed I used a form of possibility in that sentence. :smilerolleyes:
Writing this song was surely a foolish thing to do but you can't nail Jermaine down on this stupid incident forever.
I assume you know the meaning of "to leak". And you might have noticed I used a form of possibility in that sentence. :smilerolleyes:
Writing this song was surely a foolish thing to do but you can't nail Jermaine down on this stupid incident forever.
I am 99.99999999% certain it was intentionally released to radio stations all over the country. I'm on the other side of the continent from California, and I heard it here. If a "leak," then really, it was a FLOOD.
We will have to agree-to-disagree, and move on. . . . Some of you are better people than I am, to be able to let this "incident" go? I can't and it forever affected my impression of Jermaine and his character. Events since Michael's death have only confirmed that. I'm sorry, but I just can't get over the immense pain that song must have caused Michael, and he did NOT need that. I NEVER heard any sort of apology from Jermaine, so if the song was released in the heat-of-the-moment, when that moment was over he could have said, "I'm sorry," in a public way? That might have changed people's impressions of Jermaine? If he "regretted it," he never really said. Michael deserved an apology at least as public as the song was. Instead, Jermaine's career went down the toilet. Virtue is as virtue does?
For YEARS, Jermaine tried to pressure Michael into performing with the "J-4" again, by releasing statements about a "come-back" concert or tour. And for YEARS, Michael denied it. Must have made him very weary. The only ones "coming back" would have been "the J-4." Michael never left.
There were two brothers who did Michael very, very wrong, IMHO. But, I've never heard of a hateful word or deed toward Michael from the others. They are all individuals. Some are ok in my eyes, and some are NOT.
Moving right along . . . . .
Vic
:yes::clapping::clapping:So it might have been leaked to radio stations, not intentionally released. Either way, I can't hate Jermaine. No one knows what happened between them except the brothers themselves. I agree the lyrics are very harsh but people often say mean things when they are in anger but later regret.
and a sister....
Who's the other brother?
leak? wtb wasn't leaked. jermaine released that sucka...was happy when it got radio play and it was right when mj was gonna release black or white. so mj threatened eveyrone. play me or jermaine. they played him.
i never got thepicturemj was so lovey dovey w/ his family.not all of them anways....some were kept out for a reason
yep. mj ensured that if they played word to the b that they could NOT play black or white...which would u chose? mike jack or his brother?
and 'rumor' was mj broke his damn nose...i believe it. wouldn't be the first time
girl there's holes in that house from they ass. and he broke his nose.
girl there's holes in that house from they ass. and he broke his nose.
leak? wtb wasn't leaked. jermaine released that sucka...was happy when it got radio play and it was right when mj was gonna release black or white. so mj threatened eveyrone. play me or jermaine. they played him.
i never got thepicturemj was so lovey dovey w/ his family.not all of them anways....some were kept out for a reason
You really think a book by an ex wife is gonna be true? It was so obviously tabloid, it's a horrid book that makes the Jackson's out to be anti semetic a--holes. I'm sorry but I love the Jacksons and those who don't relize how popular the others were or how much they all mattered simply have not studied the Jacksons pre Thriller. I love Jermaine despite his failings and you know what Michael (who was a very good man) made bad choices too. Of course not anything criminal, but still bad choices. Michael and all his brothers have my admiration as artists and as people. I bet all these Jermaine haters never even listened to one of his fine albums and maybe not even to an original J5 one.