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The man known to the world as "The King Of Pop", Michael Jackson, was found unresponsive today in a L.A. home he was renting just weeks before he was due to set out on a new comeback tour that was slated for 50 live shows in a London arena.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home about 12:30 p.m., where they found him not breathing, performed CPR and then rushed him to UCLA Medical Center where a short time later the 50 year old was pronounced dead.
According to sources close to one of Jackson's family members, he had been feeling ill last night and even had a doctor make a house call, but checked out just fine.
The multi-talented and iconic Jackson reached the height of his success in the 70's with the Jackson 5 as a child star and then as a huge Pop solo artist in the 80's and 90's. Largely responsible for the success of MTV and being the first black artist to bridge the racial gap in America and crossover through music, he was a worldwide superstar who had fans on every Continent. In recent years however Jackson sadly found himself embroiled in many a public scandal, ranging from cosmetic surgeries and divorces to major debt and a sexual abuse trial.
A known supporter of Hip-Hop and new urban music Jackson's catalog which spans 4 decades and contains 10 solo studio LP's, was one of the most heavily sampled ever in the Hip-Hop and R&B world. Everyone from Biz Markie, Tupac, Nas, Masta Ace, Wu-Tang Clan, SWV, Kanye West, LL Cool J, Jay-Z, Large Professor, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, Aaliyah, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube and many, many others rhymed over, sampled, interpolated and re-did Mike's music and cited him as a direct influence in their career's.
Jackson is survived by his three children.
-BIG D O
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