Do The Right Thing Way

When I found out this was going down (August 29, 2015), I was like "Hey, I should be there!" 

Of course I posted on social media about it and below 

Had a great time today @ the #Brooklyn #BKLovesMJ #DTRTWay unveiling #BlockParty 🎉🎉🎉 The #NYC crowd was BUMPIN and showed #MadLove to #MichaelJackson, #SpikeLee and of course #DoTheRightThing Way👊🏾 Anytime the City Councilman for #BedStuy Brooklyn #RobertCornegy does the #FlavorFlav dance when 'Fight the Power' comes on YOU KNOW it's #AllTheWayLive

A post shared by Dankwa Brooks (@dankwa) on Aug 29, 2015 at 8:08pm PDT

[VIDEO] Earlier #Brooklyn #BKLovesMJ #DTRTWay unveiling Party!👊🏾 That's #SpikeLee on the mic leading the crowd. This vid is a little longer, but this is the gist from where I was. I might edit my clips together, but @40acresandamulefilmworks had far better angles than I. LOL. Check their account for more vids @ #BKMJ

A post shared by Dankwa Brooks (@dankwa) on Aug 29, 2015 at 3:57pm PDT

[VIDEO] #Rp @40acresandamulefilmworks Mad #MadProps 2 @djspinna #BKLovesMJ #DTRTway #BlockParty. #DJSpinna on the 1s & 2s was pure fire🔥🔥🔥 When I got there he was STR8 KILLING the #MichaelJackson song mixes—and THEN after they unveiled the #DoTheRightThingWay sign yo played like every #Brooklyn MC ever. LOL Of course we had #JayZ #Biggie, #BigDaddyKane, but yo put on dat #MCLyte, dat #AudioTwo (the Two audio) #LilKim—it was ill! Suffice it to say #NowFollowing!👊🏾 I agree pretty much with everything by this next dude #Repost @iamdeanedwards: 
I gotta send a special shout out & #SALUTE to my man 50 Grand, @djspinna & @keistarproductions for holding #BROOKLYN & The #BrooklynLovesMJ party down for over 6 hours. Go follow one of the #iLLest DJ's & nicest dudes that I know & make sure you catch him live when he's throwing one of his #StevieWonder aka #WONDERFull or #MJvsPrince tribute celebrations. #BrooklynsFinest #SupportRealDJs #PolyRhythmAddicts

A post shared by Dankwa Brooks (@dankwa) on Aug 30, 2015 at 12:41pm PDT

[VIDEO] TOO CUTE! #DTRTway #BKLovesMJ #BlockParty This must be one of those SEVERAL circles of people I couldn't even get close to the action because of the crowds of people gathered around a performer with their cell phones out.

A post shared by Dankwa Brooks (@dankwa) on Aug 30, 2015 at 7:30am PDT

⇨LOTS of great PHOTOS of the day at Gothamist HERE 

The prior year I went to

'Do The Right Thing' 25th Anniversary in Brooklyn [VIDEOS]

Click the link above to read what I wrote

Liberian Girl-Why MJ frontin'?

At the end of the star studded video Michael zooms in on the camera.

Michael Jackson in the Liberian Girl video

In his defense maybe Michael was playing the camera man. LOL.

"Liberian Girl" was the ninth single to be released from Michael Jackson's 1987 album Bad. The song starts with the Swahili language phrase "Naku Penda pia, Naku Taka pia, Mpenziwe!" (I love you too, I want you too, my love!), which was sung by South African singer Letta Mbulu (although Swahili is only commonly spoken on the opposite coast of Africa). 

Directed by Jim Yukich, the video for the song featured many of Jackson's celebrity friends who wait on the set to film the music video for "Liberian Girl", only to discover he was filming them all along. As named in the closing titles, featured in the video are:

• Beverly Johnson

• Malcolm-Jamal Warner

• Sherman Hemsley

• Paula Abdul

• Carl Weathers

• Whoopi Goldberg

• Quincy Jones
and more

—Wikipedia

Read more about the song and the video at Wikipedia