Retro Predictions: “What Michael Jackson May Look Like In The Year 2000″
Everything Else By TSSCrew on July 17, 2009 at 9:59 amWords By Prop Jay
The year is 1985. Pepsi has begun to find their groove, Thriller is still blowing up the charts and little Michael is still black.
Ebony Magazine, with the foresight of a lemming, has decided to project what the figures of the era will look like when cars fly (presumably, the year 2000). The only problem: They chose the wrong motherfucker to hypothesize about. You can see their projection of MJ above.
Using statements like “aged gracefully” and “handsome” are only excerpts of their totally bungled article. But in their defense, who would have thought Jackson was going to lose it and mutilate himself? I’m not one to say anything disrespectful about the dead, especially a legend, so it ends here but check out the link below to see an imagining of how the magic happened.
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i think it all went downhill when he burned himself in that Pepsi commercial.
by “Michael Jackson” they meant “Billy Dee + Michael’s 40-year-old kid,” I assume.
I was thinking the saaaaaaame thing… like Billy D’s cousin.
It would be interesting to see what other stars they profiled in that issue
Damn.. That projected picture is a trip..
Ragga – that’s what I wanted to see as well.
haha….. i dont think so
Lando Calrissian?
MJ woulda macked all the black chicks if he stayed looking like billy dee.
I’m viewing this from a phone, but if that’s how Mike “would have” looked in 2000, well, there wouldn’t be a question as to whose kids those are.
Lol, the mustache is what puts the picture over the top. He just looks like he’d talk like the butler off “Deeds”.
Testing something.
if you have a Digg acct, Digg the article (use the little Digg button up there to make it even easier/less work for yourself)
Thanks.
I remember that article. They also showed a tiny Emmanuel Lewis, rocking a mustache and salt/pepper hair.
ask and you shall receive.
soon google will own the digital print world.
http://books.google.com/books?id=7dgDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA27&pg=PA163
quality issue.
Their PS game was terrible lol.
LOL @ Magic’s Eddie Monster, Jayne Kennedy’s no-acting-ability ass being relevant and that old but still young version of Billy Dee.
Macked all the chicks. Mj would of pimped ‘em all.
a few surgeries later……
Keynote remembers the article….
I wasnt even old enough, let alone black (enough), to read ebony.
This article came out the month I was born.
P. 171 “Race relations in the U.S. will be better, but the country will still not be ready for a Black president.”
careful if you don’t have much time on your hands, you can get lost in that google books matrix.
the magazines for the ads alone are worth a look.
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TSS Represent
http://books.google.com/books?id=pCYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA125&dq=smoking%20section%20blog&lr=&as_brr=1&pg=PA125
http://books.google.com/books?id=qyYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA111&dq=smoking%20section%20blog&lr=&as_brr=1&pg=PA111
Lando Calrissian?
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Nobody caught this? That’s fuckin’ hilarious
My question is…
…why did Ebony have EVERYBODY with gray in their hair?
Like none of those stars would’ve been coloring (or continue to color) their hair?
Especially Kim Fields and Billy Dee.
I was just coming by to say Lando. Saying Billy Dee isn’t accurate enoug
Kim Fields was sposed to be 32 in 2000 yet they got her rocking gray hair…smh
MJ’s S-Curl game woulda been serious!
@ jowhite … thanks for the link!
Ha they got Mike lookin like Duck from the 5 heartbeats
That article reminds me of how many kittens I personally sent to heaven based on Kim Fields.
I remember my aunt used to have this issue of Ebony!!! LMAO @ the Billy Dee Williams porn mustache!
you can see all commentators are eager to prove that the differenceness
of mj is very insular,singular,exogene,different from….theirs’.truth is any projections of these chamaeleons of style,music,culture,shitness as generational similar madonna,prince,naomi,me,donatella versace,(older:)karl lagerfeld,whitney houston from 1985 to 2000 are just that:stupid,shortsighted,funny,inaccurate,(in the case of mj retro-active political),obsolete,magazinefilling blabla,especially with the generation from 1955 on,nothing is predictable,while predictability since then only gained ground again because now the world is populated by clones,drones and automobiles.