Jermaine Dupri believes that the American Music Awards’ reported decision to pull a planned Chris Brown tribute to Michael Jackson signals something grave for Black music.
In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday night (November 19), JD offered some added context to the cancelation of a performance which would have seen Chris Brown dancing to some of the biggest songs from Michael Jackson’s seminal 1982 album Thriller at the 2022 AMAs.
“If the American Music Awards canceled the Chris Brown performance,” Jermaine Dupri said in the clip, “then that means they canceled the 40th anniversary of Thriller. Which means they canceled the Michael Jackson tribute. Black Music, we in trouble.”
He added the caption: “Remember I told you.”
Dupri was one of several celebrities to publicly share their reaction after Chris Brown shared a video of his team’s rehearsal for the AMA performance, which he said was scheduled to happen during the show’s taping in Los Angeles on Sunday (November 20).
The clip starts with Brown and two women performing to his latest single, “Under The Influence,” before the music transitions to the intro gongs of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”From there, Chris Brown is joined by a group of male dancers as they recreate Michael’s choreography from the video, adding a few modern touches.
They proceed to do the same with “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” and “Billie Jean” before closing their rehearsal with “Thriller.”
An hour after sharing the seven minute video, however, Breezy returned to the comments to give his fans some bad news. “WOULDVE been the ama performance,” he wrote, “but they cancelled me for reasons unknown. [shrug emoji]”
The American Music Awards announced this year’s list of performers on October 31, but made no mention of a tribute to Michael Jackson or Thriller, which was released 40 years ago on November 30. The organization has yet to respond to Chris Brown’s claim.
Their silence prompted R&B singer Tank to cautiously question the decision, sharing a video on IG captioned, “Dear @amas before we jump to conclusions we’d like an answer on why you canceled our brother.”
“We wanna know why,” he said in the video. “We need a reason. You hire our brother Chris Brown. You send him through rehearsals. He’s creating one of the most epic performances ever. And then you cancel it. You pull the rug out from under him and all the hard working people around him. You hired him.”
As fans and celebs alike tried to imagine what could have led to the cancellation, many like Boosie Badazz offered their encouragement to Chris Brown instead.
“Dont trip @chrisbrown u a real one n one of the best to ever do it!!,” the Baton Rouge rapper tweeted on Saturday. “Its sad how they do you when u r alive but if you pass they glorify u as the best smh bro they want you to dye your face n talk soft like [Michael] for acceptance [crying laughing emoji] it ain’t happening!!”
he a pedo. Like after finding leaving neverland people were like yep he a pedo. Only friend elizabeth taylor it was carnage alright.
You never seen anything with your own eyes that proves he’s a pedo so stop with the insinuating! That was never proven! let the man R.I.P
He was never a pedo and that HBO shitshow was debunked years ago. Anyone who still takes Robson Safechuck seriously after their literally 100s of lies were exposed and two judges dismissed their BS lawsuit are either morons or want to believe the worst about MJ for their own primitive reasons.
MJ was never a pedo, not even close. Had little interest in s*x at all , let alone with males, let alone violate anyone for it.
Only friend elizabeth taylor??? WTF are you even talking about?
Hundreds of people who knew MJ defended him. People who have nothing to gain from talking. Unlike those in that leaving neverland bullshit who are suing for millions as we speak accusing innocent people left and right, lying in court. you believe everything you see on TV? Cause I could make a “documentary” depicting you as a pedo too
Why can’t we do our own on the soul train music awards for him instead of hoping that the American music awards will let him do it. Let’s create our own show. That will allow Chris Brown to do a tribute to Michael Jackson
U have ur own.. bet and Soul train.. but nothing fills that void like good ol white acceptance
B.E.T haven’t been B.E.T since they sold it
Black PEOPLE are in trouble because we always think we’re “in trouble” because of some shit some other people don’t want to do for us. Shit is sad as hell. Don’t nobody give a damn about the American Music Awards except industry weirdos who need that validation.
WTF is “black music” ? Music is not a color, its a fucking sound.
A black sound. That is what black music is. Don’t try to be sarcastic – it doesn’t look good on you!
Hey JD, I am a black man who grew up in Watts, CA. You say black music is in trouble??? Nah bro, I cannot let you say that at all because we have the Essence, BET Awards, Hiphop awards, R&B Award shows. You know what’s in trouble??? Some of our young black men out here doing these crazy azz daytime/nightime robberies and killing one another due to jealousy and envy. You need to stop JD and sit down! Maybe instead of worrying about a “Pop Icon” who didn’t really wanted to be “BLACK” in the first place. Y’all must’ve forgot that Michael Jackson tried his best to bleach his damn skin in an attempt to become a white man. Why not come to these hoods and speak about putting these guns down and becoming a Big Brother/father type figure for some of these young black men without fathers.
Exactly! We’re good, AMA don’t define us! We have too much talent and creativity as a race to be in trouble! 🤷🏾♂️ Jermaine trippin
I totally get what you saying BUT I have to disagree on MJ skin situation wanting to be black. There are several interviews MJ did discussing that in detail and he emphatically said he never wanted a white man to play him in any movies etc.
Ahh yeah he still changed his skin color… what does that have to do with a TV show.. Jermaine the puppet is just trying to provoke that race war pretty straight forward stuff
Michael Jackson suffered from generalized vitiligo, which was confirmed by his autopsy report 13 years ago and here you are in 2022 still spitting the BS that he bleached his skin because he wanted to be white. His skin was never fully white, he had brown and white patches everywhere. Photos prove it, his autopsy prove it, witnesses prove it where else do you need?
Michael did not bleach his skin ,he had vitaligo
Maybe if Chris Brown start acting right and quit hanging out with gang members then people will work with him
Who’s more gangster than a US politician or your so-called law enforcement official, the FBI, the CIA, the judicial system, the one percenter’s. Every facet of this American culture is gangster! So stop it with bs!
How though??? They gave the spot to a dude that beat the shit out of Rihanna??? How is blakkk in trouble when he got away with it and they offered him the spot??? Another DELUSIONAL american black fella…
So dude pose to suffer for life for a choice he made years ago we pass this ace
We really need to stop waiting for others to do it for us. It’s getting tired.
Does this have anything to do with Michael Jackson fucking kids?
Does this have anything to do with you killing yourself?
Does this have anything to do with Michael Jackson and his troubled past with kids?
Black music is in trouble when ur begging desperately for white peoples acceptance every breathing second.. u don’t see whiteout like “omg white music’s introuble” bc country is represented every single second. ..get over yourselves
The POWERS THAT BE are scared #thriller40 is going to clearly and undeniably outsell the compilation Eagles Greatest Hits, and that Chris Brown performance was good for a few hundred thousand Thriller album sales. It’s all BS racism!
The ENTIRE music industry was in dire straits before #thriller restarted the engine to ZOOM ZOOM!
MJ XSCAPED this type of BS by faking his death!
See GREATEST MAGIC TRICK EVER PERFORMED ON A WORLD STAGE. The facts, proof, evidence & clues will THRILL & SHOCK you more than any other documentary you’ve ever seen.
Check out these FACTS:
~MJ’s Parents NEVER saw the dead body
~No name on crypt
~Forest Lawn Mortuary has stated throughout the years we don’t have MJ’s body & have never had it plus executives refuse to confirm MJ is buried there_I have it recorded.
~All death documents in wrong name which is against the bylaws of the Department of Public Health and CDC
~No record of MJ at Coroner’s office under # given out at Murray trial
~No record of Michael Jackson at UCLA Medical Center on June 25, 2009
~Verdict in the Murray trial calls him an “alleged victim” who died on “alleged date”, which means California Judicial System never confirmed dead body as MJ
~LAPD Detective who watched autopsy states “the body looked nothing like him”
~Dr. Murray told Dr. Oz & in his book states the body was not the same when he came back from bathroom and it looked differently
~EMT testified dead body looked like old cancer hospice patient suffering long illness and sooooooooo much more!
NO SKIM CHECKING, lots of diversionary mind games, GO DIRECTLY TO SOURCE to discover TRUTH!
The POWERS THAT BE are scared #thriller40 is going to clearly and undeniably outsell the compilation Eagles Greatest Hits, and that Chris Brown performance was good for a few hundred thousand Thriller album sales. It’s all BS racism!
The ENTIRE music industry was in dire straits before #thriller restarted the engine to ZOOM ZOOM!
MJ XSCAPED this type of BS by faking his death!
See GREATEST MAGIC TRICK EVER PERFORMED ON A WORLD STAGE. The facts, proof, evidence & clues will THRILL & SHOCK you more than any other documentary you’ve ever seen.