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Michael Jackson committed the ultimate act of revenge after Eminem diss without saying a word

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Published 15:07 30 May 2023 GMT+1

Michael Jackson committed the ultimate act of revenge after Eminem diss without saying a word

Michael Jackson was unhappy about some of Eminem's lyrical content, but managed to get some indirect revenge

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Michael Jackson once exacted some seriously precise revenge on Eminem after being dissed in one of his tracks.

OK, so revenge might not be exactly the reason behind what happened - in truth it almost certainly isn't - but the pair definitely did have a falling out after Michael was mentioned in one of Em’s songs, which Jackson addressed in a few interviews.

Jackson wasn’t known for his ability to verbally spar with people, nor was he particularly renowned for his ability to hold an argument.

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However, Marshall Mathers is definitely in the opposite category, he loves a bit of a beef.

Over the years, he’s aimed lyrical jibes at members of his own family, Elton John – who he subsequently made up with – and Machine Gun Kelly, to name but a few.

Eminem has taken aim at many celebrities over his time.
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In 2004, he came for the King of Pop, who had a pretty interesting method of retaliation.

Em’s song ‘Just Lose It’ seems to have been the catalyst, as the Detroit rapper took aim at MJ.

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In response, Michael called the lyrics ‘disrespectful’, but didn’t release a track of his own or anything like that.

Instead, he became the owner of all of Eminem’s back catalogue in 2007, when his company Sony/ATV purchased the company that owned all of Slim Shady’s music.

He paid $370 million for the privilege, so it’s likely that Eminem wasn’t too bothered about this development, given that he’ll have made a load of money.

As well as Em’s tracks, when Michael bought up Famous Music – a subsidiary of Viacom – he also got the rights to artists such as Bjork, Shakira, and Beck.

Not bad going, really.

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To be fair, this might not have come as a massive surprise to some people, as Michael famously bought up the back catalogue of The Beatles in 1985.

Shockingly, he even outbid Sir Paul McCartney for the rights, and Macca was actually in the band.

In ‘Just Lose It’, Eminem had mocked Michael a couple of times for his plastic surgery, as well as aping an incident in 1984 when Michael’s hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.

After that, Michael gave an interview with a Los Angeles radio station in which he said: “I’ve admired Eminem as an artist, and was shocked by this.”

“The video was inappropriate and disrespectful to me, my children, my family and the community at large.”

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Michael Jackson wasn't happy with Eminem's comments.
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In a later interview, he added: “I’ve never met Mr Eminem, and to have – I’ve always admired him – and to have him do something like that has been pretty painful.”

In the end, Eminem got his songs back.

Seven years after Michael died in 2009, it has been reported that Eminem bought back his publishing rights, and since 2016 he’s had full control over them again.

However, it’s interesting to note that during the time he was in charge of the rights to Eminem’s music, Michael never exerted pressure to change or censor the lyrics.

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Make of that what you will.

Featured Image Credit: All Star Picture Library/UPI/Alamy

Topics: Michael Jackson, Eminem, Celebrity, Music, Money

Tom Wood
Tom Wood

Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekend he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]

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