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Thursday, October 8, 2009 | 9:26am
What If I Told You Michael Jackson Is Singing On Jay-Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girl”? [UPDATE]
It seems like MJ and Jigga have worked together more than we thought
Quick Trivia: Have Michael Jackson and Jay-Z ever worked together? If you are a true music buff you know the answer is indeed “Yes”. MJ enlisted Jigga for a remix of “You Rock My World”. If you don’t remember maybe I can jog your memory a bit. It’s the one where Jay-Z spends a large portion of his verse just saying “clap…clap…clap” (when Jigga’s flow jumped the laziness shark so to speak). New revelations from Jay-Z himself in the new issue of NME are suggesting that the King of Pop and King of Hip Hop worked together at least one other time.
“He was on my song ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, singing these background vocals and I didn’t even put his name on it”
We knew about Biz Markie and Q-Tip but Michael Jackson’s voice is up in there too? I’m gonna have to go back and relisten to the track to see if I can hear him. If that is indeed the case it wouldn’t be the first time Michael Jackson has lent his vocals to a project and went uncredited. Simpson fanboys may know that Jackson once lent his voice to an episode of the Simpsons without appearing in the credits. Ironically playing a white man who thought he was Michael Jackson.
So let’s go back and listen to Girls, Girls Girls again and see if we can indeed hear the gloved one.
UPDATE: As resident hip hop expert C-Hyphen has pointed out is not the original Girls, Girls, Girls but the Girls, Girls, Girls Remix which appeared as a bonus track on Jay-Z’s Blueprint [1] which explains why MJ never got credit for the appearance. If you happen to have that song in your collection, you can clearly tell that it is indeed Michael Jackson singing on the track.
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I just listened…if indeed he is on there his vocals are distorted. There’s definately a filter on the background vocals but I can’t hear Mike’s inflections. The song is a little chauvinistic for mike so maybe that’s why he didn’t co-sign with a credit.
I had a hard time hearing his signature voice as well.
I didn’t hear sh!t…. Just Biz….
Hold up, the light voice in the back ground saying “oh baby, my baby” might be MIke Jack…. A little distorted, but it’s possible.
I knew about the Simpsons thing(heard about it on TV recently), but I had no idea MJ was on the Girls Girls Girls remix, that’s new to me. PEACE!!!
Yeah MJ is on the ‘Girls, Girls Girls’ remix track that was one of 2 bonus songs at the end of the album (‘Lyrical Exercise’ was the other bonus) since it was bonus song there was no credit to be given…those tracks were hidden bonuses and never had credits shown in the CD booklet; so his name was never on it.
If you listen to it now you hear MJ clear as day singing background during the chorus.
ah your right. And whats funny about it is that some phone conversations of MJ recently leaked online where he’s talking to some random chick. In the phone conversation MJ says something about a past girl having “his nose wide open”. I remember thinking thats how you know MJ is truly from an old school black family cause no one else says stuff like that. And on the Girls Girls Girls Remix MJ says again “says my nose can’t be open”. So we know MJ likely wrote that hook himself.
Good Pick up C.