L.A. Reid Tells How He Got Caught In Michael & Jermaine Jackson’s Heated Feud
Then Jermaine Jackson’s DISS RECORD about his brother…
L.A. says things got really messy when Jermaine told him and Babyface this:
“I want to make a song about my brother. I want to talk about how he’s treated me through the years, like how every time I find producers like you guys, he takes my producers. He doesn’t care about his family or anybody but himself.”
L.A. and ‘Face were surprised that two brothers of soul music royalty, were about beef on the radio, like they were on a hip hop mixtape.
Nonetheless, they still allowed Jermaine’s creative expression flow, no matter how much they disagreed with his diss record request- and produced the track, “Word to the Badd!,’ which was aired on radio stations nationwide.
Michael was pissed off with all three of the men. So, he called up L.A. to give him a few choice words:
“ ‘You have to stop this,’ he said. ‘You’re the head of the label. You have to kill this. This isn’t good.’ ”
L.A. said MJ and Jermaine met up at their Mom’s house to talk it out, but that two days later, he got two very different phone calls. Jermaine called L.A. and said the song is gonna stay on the radio; MJ called and said ‘You’ve gotta put a stop to this.’
They were right back where they’d started, but L.A. said this is what happened next:
“The record disappeared off the air, as if it had never been there in the first place. I don’t know what Michael did. I don’t know if Michael did anything, but it went away in a flash.”
Check out Jermaine’s diss record about his MJ here:
