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@Neuromancer is making me say this but truth is, you gotta give it to Mike. Stevie aint made a relevant record since what, 1989? Michael Jackson never stopped. Dude was cranking out hits whenever he damn well felt like it. In 2003, that ABC show had a full stadium plus millions watching on live TV. Stevie aint never been able to have that type of audience.
Going further than that, Michael Jackson started out with black music and then crossed over to mainstream. There's an argument to be made that Stevie never crossed over. Sure white people liked his music and whatnot, but Stevie was never the icon to people of all nationalities the way Michael was.
If you ask Stevie Wonder who he feels is better, I bet you he will say Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson so bad he had Stevie Wonder in the studio singing background vocals for the Off the Wall album and Thriller too if I'm not mistaken.
Michael Jackson is him. He been him since he was 9 years old.
Stevie Wonder performed at Motown 25 just like MJ did. You don't hear nobody talking about Stevie's performance from that night.
Why? Cause Michael mothaeffin Jackson shut that ish DOWN.
There was a time when you could match Mike against Stevie and it be a fair contest. But guess what? Nobody has really been able to do that since 1984.
Michael Jackson ascended into a stratosphere that nobody was able to get to but him. His music was so out of this world that there aint really a genre for it.
I bet you I could pull up Stevie singing Michael Jackson's songs on YouTube. Show me Mike singing a Stevie song.
And I say that as somebody that grew up on Stevie Wonder. But MJ surpassed Stevie in the early 80s. The difference between Mike and Stevie is the difference between Goku on Namek before turning SSJ and Goku SSJ3. It ain't even close.