Servant of Yahawah bahsham Yahawshi. Mediator & Liaison for We The Remnant. Covering the uncovering... You might laugh. You might not. It's all perspective.
Billie Jean is from the album Thriller (1982), the best-selling album in history, but the moment that eternalized the track was the solo performance in the special Motown 25 recorded on March 25, 1983. Michael Jackson, only 24, hardly wanted to participate in the show. Berry Gordy had to insist a lot. He chose "Billie Jean" because he thought the other tracks from when he was younger didn't match his new style. Michael performed the song with impeccable choreography and, in the middle of the track, debuted the moonwalk for the first time on world television, a step he had learned from street dancers years earlier.
This performance changed the history of music: it was the moment when Michael stopped being "the boy of the Jackson 5" and became the King of Pop. The special was shown in May 1983 and seen by more than 47 million people, to this day it is considered one of the greatest live performances of all time.
Listen I still stop and give 8Ball & MJG an ear. Listen just like the Scriptures that salt is salt. Understand, we are a peculiar people and you feel it.
I drove through Compton and Connecticut don't act like you don't see. Philippians 4:13. You are witnessing the end of Esau. Saint Matthew 5:5 red letter Yahawshi speaking.
Straight Outta Compton is the opening track and title of N. W.A. debut album (released in 1989), the album that practically invented gangsta rap as a mainstream genre. Dr. Dre produced the beat in a few hours using the classic break of James Brown's "Funky Drummer," a simple synthesizer and scratches from DJ Yella all recorded in the tiny Audio Achievements Studio.
The album sold over 2 million copies in the US alone with almost no mainstream radio playing (because of censorship), in 2015, inspired the biopic Straight Outta Compton.