Bill Bellamy on Interviewing Michael Jackson (Part 5) 

Im 44, and for the younger people, U had to b there. U can name the biggest star on Earth right now, and they still dont match the popularity of Michael Jackson, and remember, there was no internet.

Michael Jackson was another level. He was a special guy.

Vlad asks you a question then cuts you off to give his response😂

Michael Jackson was clearly a very special being. If you just step back and look how he is still relevant today....how new generations all over the world today still learn about his life and music and how everyone still speaks about him and their interactions. Whatever it was he definitely made an impact on WORLDWIDE culture/humanity.

My uncle was a cop in Detroit and Mike used to personally request him to be his bodyguard when he would come here

Don’t forget RIP John Singleton who directed “ Remember the time”

I love this story, people also forget how famous and unique Michael Jackson was easily the most famous person to ever live.

MJ was a gift from GOD .. if you haven’t figured that out yet let me help you… gift from the LORD… where that energy came from

He was the greatest Entertainer of all the time and The King of Pop music

The album that had That's The Way Love Goes was Janet. not Velvet Rope. I remember that interview with Bill Bellamy though, recorded it on VHS. CLASSIC.

As a Black Man who is 55 years old I can only tell you youngins that Michael Jackson & MTV made each other. The thing to understand is that MTV wouldn’t air Black artists’ videos when it first launched in 1981. So Black artists, particularly Rick James started raising Public h*ll about that. Then the MTV VJ Mark Goodman did that interview with David Bowie who unexpectedly pounced on him about the issue and made him look like an absolute moron. So after the Bowie interview debacle the MTV Braintrust met and asked themselves “Who’s a Black artist whose videos we can air that won’t offend President Ronald Reagan’s conservative America??” Rick James wanted them to air his Superfreak video. Wasn’t happening........wayyyyyyyyyy too raunchy. Prince?? Musically gifted but definitely still too risqué. Ah…….I’ve got it!!……Michael Jackson!!……Softspoken, nonthreatening, to everybody’s knowledge he was still possibly even a virgin, a tad bit effeminate too!!…….I know it sounds like I’m being unflattering but watch Eddie Murphy Raw when he talks about the muted reaction Michael got when he took Brooke Shields to the Grammys vs the reaction Eddie would have gotten if HE had shown up at the Grammys with Brooke. So Michael fit perfectly into the mission of making Middle Class White America feel comfortable with a Black male superstar as a “humble sex symbol”. There was a view out there that “Now there’s a Black guy who could take my Daughter to the Prom……As long as he has her back home by 10”. 😜😜😜 So MTV needed MJ and MJ needed them. Black stars could stop complaining about the need to break MTV’s color barrier, and Michael was launched into Worldwide Superstardom which was what he always wanted. And Michael siezed every part of the moment…….every single solitary part of the moment. When they agreed to air his Billie Jean & Beat it videos word is Michael was putting 16-17 hours a day into making both of them absolutely perfect videos. He was obsessive about it. And when they aired?? Good Heaven!! You cannot fathom how those videos turned him into a cultural icon!! Billie Jean was everybody’s favorite of the 2 and MTV would air that video every hour on the hour and the Nielsen Ratings were constantly setting new records…….Beat it was smashing records too but Billie Jean was the one that had people going crazy. As teenagers we were rushing home after school 5 days a week to watch whichever they were showing. And to be able to watch them on demand we were all recording them on our VCRs. It was absolutely unbelievable!! When they say he became the biggest pop culture phenomenon since The Beatles?? They’re not lying. By the time it came time to shoot his Thriller video?? What a lot of people don't know is that MTV wanted the exclusive to show that video so bad that THEY PAID FOR IT!! Very few people know that MTV worked out a secret deal with Michael to pay for the Thriller video so long as he gave them the exclusive rights to air it. Don't think for a second that they did that with anyone else. And on the Night that they aired it?? It was like the Superbowl!! Everybody across the Country tuned in on the night the Thriller video debuted. If I'm not mistaken MTV aired it on a Tuesday Night at 8:00pm so it didn't have to compete with the Cosby Show which came on NBC every Thursday Night at 8:00pm. So every other sitcom or tv drama completely took a backseat on that Tuesday Night for that 14 minute video. All eyes in America were tuning in to MTV to watch that Thriller video and Man did it deliver. The whole Country was mesmerized.

Bill is a genuinely kind man. Got to give him his props!🙏🏾

It's the Janet (1993) album not Velvet Rope (1997).

MJ was one of the first celeb types to warn us about The Industry, he was USED & ABUSED from the beginning. He had all of the fame thrusted upon him but that is because he was treated as a commodity, not a human being. Kudos to Bellamy! He needs to know also that he is well-loved, was a big celebrity in his own right. I graduated HS in '96, Bill Bellamy was a cool cat to us and he was GREAT at his job, very professional, funny, and not one to ask 'cookie cutter' questions.

Bill Bellamy: “I interviewed Michael Jackson” Vlad to another guest: “everyone is talking about Bill Bellamy’s Michael Jackson interview made $30 million dollars Im telling you now I did the numbers there’s no way that’s possible”

Bill Bellamy interviewed Tupac & Dr Dre at the same time when Tupac was on Death Row. Hope he asked him about that experience too.

I remember I told my father I love MJ's music videos, and he told me he doesn't make music videos. He makes mini movies. At 1st I was like "mini movies?" Until I look back and saw some of his "mini movies" again like: Remember the time, thriller, smooth criminal etc etc and I was like "WoW, my father was right" and now bill Bellamy is saying the same thing.

You was interviewing the king i expect nothing less than 50 plus in the room

Vlad, let the guest talk please? I'm begging you

That's The Way Love Goes was on the Janet album.

I remember bill bellamy on MTV cable channel back in the days in 1994.

Mike was a real dude from conversations i've had with people who were around him. It was a weird time and I don't fault him for having his guard up. We didn't have instagram, magazines plastered his face that you bought in the check out line.

MJ was interviewing Bill for the funny friend role that Chris Tucker eventually got

thanks for sharing, you inspired me to try something new

It’s really not debatable 👌🏼 Michael Jackson was the biggest star ever!! If Elvis would have gotten to tour Europe , Asia, Australia, and South America? He’d have an argument! Not to say Elvis wasn’t in the ballpark 👌🏼 he’s in the nosebleeds tho & Mike was pitching/batting/& playing the field 😆 that’s definitely the top 2 biggest musicians popularity wise! There were 4 Beatles & they really weren’t even together that long ! As a group they’re in the conversation too

I love MJ!! ❤💎🧤

He's had the same haircut since 1992... seriously!

We were robbed hard. I wish we just got ONE night of the This is It tour....the level of production put into that on 2009 was wild. Artists are just now catching up to the production of that tour.

MICHEAL JACKSON = THE GREATEST 2 EVER DO THIS MUSIC S**T PERIOD!!🐐👑

MJ King of Pop. They can NEVER take that title away from him.

I was telling young people during my development that Michael Jackson was a different person on a whole separate level of fame. Something that will never be touched again.

MJ was literally large than life.

Legendary MJ, Always and Forever The Greatest ❤️👑🏆🙏🏾🕊

Bill is one of the most underrated comedians on the planet ! He’s a gem!! Was solid in How to be a player & in Any given Sunday too!

rip mj we love you

Bill Bellamy In a word funny/Underrated

VLAD LET PEOPLE TALK AND DON'T TALK OVER YOUR GUESTS

Mike is the legend, the king ..no one like him ..

Vlad need to shut TF up and let ppl talk. He dont cut off ANYBODY else that has these accomplishment outside of the culture. I.E. Neil Degrasse Tyson, Robert Kiyosaki, the ex Aryan Brotherhood leader, the ex agent that hit the Hells Angel's, etc

Between 82-86 Mike was competing with global royalty and governments at this point. A once in a lifetime experience.

MJ had godlike aura in his prime. There will never be another thing like it

He mixed the Janet albums . He interviewed her during the Janet album

Shut up Vlad you keep interrupting

I remember when Bill was dancing with Janet and her dancers in the interview and I was like I wish that was me.

Bill Bellamy was also in movies as well. legend

Bill Bellamy got on the I Did Way Too Many Drugs Shirt😂

7 million dollar videos!! 🤯 The kids of this era will NEVER 🙅🏾‍♀️ fathom, or understand that. I remember the first time I saw thriller, best it, bad, Billie Jean, smooth criminal, black or white, you rock my world, etc... They're shooting music videos in bandos, in the trap, on the block, in the hood, etc... Whoever thought we would be here today?

Best interview ever

Give my boy a job id love to see him interview on your platform

If MJ was still alive I feel Vlad would be worthy of an interview. Vlad not perfect and he beyond petty with ppl he don’t like lol but his content is top tier no lie

TEAM MICHAEL JACKSON FOREVER TIL THE DAY I DIIIIIE

We all miss MJ!

That shirt is sick, anybody know the brand?

Vlad let a man who has actually interviewed Michael Jackson get his shit off!!! Damn!!! How can you kill the climax in the beginning of This man's story as he was explaining??? Such a Buzz Kill!!!

It’s the Janet lp not Velvet Rope that features Thats The Way Love Goes

Shout out to Bob Jones for making the MJ/Bellamy interview happen.

There will never and has never been a celebrity like MJ that dude was out of this world as far as his fame everybody on the planet knew his name and music he’s been dead more then a decade no one has replaced him

I didn't know he Interviewed all those people

Michael Jackson was and will always be the G.O.A.T, PERIODT!

Not the velvet rope. The janet album (93) mj interview (95)

Plus, Michael was tall in height

Interview Dwayne Johnson!

Question * why would Biggie Fan Boy MICHAEL in 95 , when he already recorded with him and been to Neverland Ranch with his Mom ?

1:29 glad he cut vlad off to finish his story because vlad gets a lil too excited n always wants to throw in his lil 2 cents

What is this man health routine. He was grown when I was an adolescent and damn near still look the same. Also Bill got an all time classic stand up special. The while bit about playing games w/ his sister as a kid 😂 can never see a game of Trouble and not remember that bit.

Vlad, let the man get his thoughts out before interrupting. Smh

Thats the way love goes was before the velvet rope i think

Bro, All of us who are that age.... REMEMBER that JANET interview! Jealous asf!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to look up to this guy. If he did what that bodyguard claimed he a goofy.

Nobody Bigger Than Michael Jackson

Bill looks like John Jones UFC

MJ THE GOAT

LLMJ❤

That's the way love goes was from the album Janet not from the album velvet rope

Mj 🥺💜

Mike is the Best And Greatest Music Artist and Entertainer Ever Sammy Davis Jr is The Most Talented Entertainer Ever

Bill is funnier now than before

I want Bill to finally embrace his age. All that Just for men is not believable.

Great interviewer

Hate to say it, I did not think his interview with MJ was good. The questions were very basic and I don't think he asked anything no one knew. I felt like Will was star struck in the interview. "Is he real," in this interview gave my recollections some weight in my mind.

I am a person who is just not impressed by peoples status. I have met some of the most famous people in the world never once. Did I ever feel nervous or anything. I just look at them as a normal person treated that won’t respect you like I would any person. I always find it funny that people are so starstruck by people. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Wesley Snipes was already acting before Bad came out

Can we talk about this haircut?

Vlad let him talk

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Nigga.... "That's the way love goes" is NOT on the Velvet Rope album. It was the leading single on the Janet album. The 1st single off Velvet Rope was "Got til it's gone," with Q-Tip... which she was accessed of stealing the melody from Desiree'. Which if u listen to the song in question, she definitely did, as much as it pains me to say. But how ya'll IN the industry but don't know this but I do?

MJ wouldn’t even do a Vlad interview

Who cut bill Bellamys hair? smh

Mj top tier

Why do all of these people put up with this guy?

I HATE when people like Vladimir are pulling celebrity interviews....yet, can't do proper research on a timeline/fact/sequence of events. Just laziness 🙄 No one checked Bill on mixing the wrong Janet eras & songs?? THIS is one of many reasons I don't trust humans to give me definitive information about "God"/religion/history. Y'all can't even accurately recall a trivial event, from 30 years ago!!! So, I'm supposed to trust stories from humans....THOUSANDS of years ago!!?🤨🤨😒

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Is this why they killed him

nj

Elvis Presley had 18 number ones ,MJ had 13, Elvis sold 500mil-1billion records, MJ sold 350-400mil records.

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Vlad is horrible

Bill belmey was always a low budget CB4 actor

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Vlad can you let the man finish