Kanye West ft. Michael Jackson: Why did this never happen???

[FreeSpeech]

I feel like they have many simularities, and could have had amazing chemistry. Anyone else wish they had made a track? If Michael could work with 50, why not Kanye?

[stillmatic]

Probably because of this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKiZBlelIzc

For the 25th anniversary of Thriller, Kanye was given the task of remastering arguably MJ's greatest ever song 'Billie Jean' and the general consensus from most and MJ's camp was that Kanye tortured the track, doing a horrible job.

[AnalKiddo]

The 50 track was hot, he did a great job

[FreeSpeech]

Probably because of this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKiZBlelIzc

For the 25th anniversary of Thriller, Kanye was given the task of remastering arguably MJ's greatest ever song 'Billie Jean' and the general consensus from most and MJ's camp was that Kanye tortured the track, doing a horrible job.

I think it was just a horrible idea to remix it in the first place. He didn't do anything awful, but it's a huge downgrade. I mean, you can't make it better. What should they have him remix next? Lose Yourself?