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Madalin Games: http://sites.google.com/site/onlinegames01org/ = Michael Jackson Search Engine = http://sites.google.com/site/michaeljacksonsearch/ "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" is a song by American pop musician Michael Jackson, featured on his 1982 sixth studio album Thriller. Released as the fourth single from the album on May 8, 1983, the song peaked at number five on the American Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, topped the American Hot Black Singles and Hot Dance Club Songs charts and reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" was re-recorded with R&B artist Akon for the 2008 reissue album Thriller 25 under the title "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" and was released as a single, charting at number 48 on the Billboard Pop 100 in the United States. It also appears in Grand Theft Auto Vice City on Fever 105. The song ends with a chorus repeatedly singing "Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-coo-sa". The chant is a riff on one first used by Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, who broke into the American market in 1973 with his classic "Soul Makossa". "'Soul Makossa' was a big hit, in Africa, in Europe, and in America, where it came to be seen as one of the first disco records," says Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker magazine. Sanneh adds that, "[Dibango] named his song after the makossa, a Cameroonian dance, but he stretched the word out, [and] played with it [so that it sounded like]: 'Ma-mako, ma-ma-ssa, mako-makossa'." Jackson's version of the Dibango chant has since been sampled and incorporated into other songs, including an interpretation by Rihanna on her 2007 single, "Don't Stop the Music", and the hook was also sampled in D12 and Obie Trice's song "Doe Rae Me". Michael Jackson Site: http://sites.google.com/site/mjvideossite/ Games Site: http://sites.google.com/site/onlinegames01org/ Wanna be starting something (Live in Bucharest 1992) - Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin' Somethin is a 1983 single released from Michael Jackson's multi-platinum selling 1982 album Thriller. The song was originally written in 1979 and intended for his Off the Wall album but was not recorded until the sessions for Thriller in 1982. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" was also used on every set list of Jackson's tours, from the Victory Tour in 1984, right the way through to the HIStory Tour in 1997. Unlike most of the other songs performed live, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" had never been lip-synched during any of Jackson's tours.

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