Suspicions
All Star
Camron, Blu and Wiz Khalifa also took shots at MJ pre death
YepVerse was on a TLC song if I remember correctly.
Fred.
Real talkNah he probably just said what he meant.
After icons/legends die, people always talk about them at their peak as if they were perceived that way their entire. MJ peaked with Thriller in 1983 and while he was still a megastar afterwards, it was downhill in terms of his quality of music.
In 94, MJ was prettyand hip-hop was taking over. MJ got clowned by regular people all the time for getting nosejobs, bleaching his skin and being suspect. Someone talking negatively about him in a rap song wasn't shocking then. Other rappers had punchlines about him being a child molester.
After people die everyone acts like they were some kind of sacred cow and they were never criticized.